IEM Shout Out – Welding

June 2, 2009

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a course on the 8th & 9th of June, 2009.

It will be held at the Institute Latihan Sultan Ahmad Shah (ILSAS) in Bangi, as part of the ongoing collaboration between the Oil, Gas & Mining Tech Division and ILSAS.

The course sections are:

Topic 1 :

Arc welding process (MMA, TIG, MIG/MAG and FCAW)

Course content outline : –

  • Principles of operation, consumables, polarity, welding parameter,
  • advantages and disadvantages

Topic 2 :

Welding process (SAW, RSW, Oxy-Acytylene Electroslag

Course content outline : –

  • Principles of operation, consumables, polarity, welding parameter,
  • advantages and disadvantages, fuel, gases
  • Flame type etc.

For more information, mosey on to here.

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Saturday Star 2009-05-30 – Job Opportunities

June 1, 2009

Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:

  • First off, Synergy is looking for 5 lead safety engineers and 3 lead process engineers. Visit the Synergy website for contact details. And safety specialists. Ah, heck. If you have more than 5 years experience in O&G, apply. If you have less than 5, send a donation to the offshore account, and still get abuse.
  • Talisman is looking for an Rotating Eqt Engineer, and a Mechanical Engineer. Apply here, and visit their site.

And that’s it.

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Tales from the Engineering Floor – Government, Please Take my Money

May 28, 2009

Synergy‘s registered with the Custom Department as an entity collecting service tax. So, we want pay service tax this month (May, 2009), as to be good corporate citizens.

We review the payment instructions, which are different on the website and on the printed sheet. The website states that the Department will only accept the following methods of payment:

  • cash;
  • postal or money orders;
  • cheques or bank drafts

Now, what is annoying is that the hard copy instruction say that if we are to submit a cheque, a bank guarantee is required. Not quite believing this, we went down to the offices (which for us is located way in Kelang), where we are stopped from submitting our service tax payment because the check did not come with a bank guarantee.

Exsqueeze me? We are trying to pay the Customs Department, but they refuse to take our Company cheque because it is not gauranteed? Where’s the logic in that? If the cheque bounces, it will cause more trouble to us then to them.

Service Tax Payment Requirements

Service Tax Payment Requirements

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Bad Design

May 26, 2009

I leave it to you to decide how KLCC decided to install a light post in front of a traffic light.

Light Post in front of Traffic Light

Light Post in front of Traffic Light

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Saturday Star 2009-05-23 – Job Opportunities

May 25, 2009

Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:

  • First off, Synergy is looking for 5 lead safety engineers and 3 lead process engineers. Visit the Synergy website for contact details.
  • PETRONAS asks ‘Are you up for the Challenge?’ If you aren and aspire to be a Researcher/Scientist/Resource Persons (min PhD) or Engineer/Manager/Tech Coach/Tech Prof (min 8 year related experience) apply at http://www.discoverpetronas.com/rnt, or send inquiries to pstrategy_rt@petronas.com.my. I think you can infer all sorts of things from the email address alone.
  • Dialog Group is looking for project/turnaround quality control managers. Send an email here or snail mail to Human Resources Department, Dialog Group of Companies, 109, Block G, Phileo Damansara 1, No. 9, Jalan 16/11, 46350.
  • RasGas is looking for field operators. CVs to be submitted here. You can phone the local recruiters at +603 2078 1918. I believe RasGas is a JV, one of the partners being ExxonMobil.
  • Ah, Kebabangan Petroleum Operating Company (affectionately know as KPOC) are looking for Snr. Project Eng,  Snr. Elec. Eng, I&C Eng, Snr Pipeline Eng, Snr Piping Eng, Snr Planning Eng, Planning Eng, Snr Cost Eng, Cost Eng. Wonder why they go for Spanish Senõr titles? Anyhow, Send an email here or snail mail to Kebabangan Petroleum Operating Company Sdn Bhd, Level 52, Tower 2, PETRONAS Twin Towers, KLCC 50088 KL.
  • IEV is looking for a project engineer, snr sales engineer. Send an email here or snail mail to The Human Resource Manager, IEV Group Sdn Bhd, Dataran Hamodal Block B, 2nd Floor, Jalan Bersatu 13/4 46200 PJ.
  • Here’s one I would take with a pinch of salt, with some rassam as well. There’s an advert for maintenance engineers being run by Marsya. They ask that you send them your CV to gas@torfness.com. I attempted to go to torfness.com, but I got a holding page. Caveat emptor.
  • Ah, here’s one for all those graduates out there. Ensco Gerudi is looking for a trainee. Send an email here or snail mail to Ensco Gerudi (M) Snd Bhd, 5th Floor, Bangunan Angkasa Raya, Jalan Ampang, 50450 KL (attn: Ravi Amsadi, Administration Manager).
  • ConocoPhillips is looking for a Project Engineer. Interested Applicants, supply your details here.
  • Talisman in looking for a Piping / Mech Engineer. Apply here, and visit their site.

Wow, looks like the O&G industry is picking up, though most of these job are for the senior engineer.

Sigh, since I have moved with Synergy out of KL, will you patronise Chee Meng in my memory? Or invite me to meetings around Bukit Bintang at lunchtime? Is he doing packet specials?

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First Time – Firefly to Kerteh

May 22, 2009

This week, I took my first flight on a Firefly flight to Kerteh. Not bad, I left on the 6:30am (red eye!) from Subang and returned on the 6:20pm. Managed to get a whole day’s worth of work in there.

One amusing thing I saw was when we were deboarding the aircraft. The stewardess solidly plants herself halfway down the aisle, and allows the rear seating passagers to debark via the back door (there is no front exit) before letting the front seating passengers depart. I guess they are afraid of tipping over the plane if the front passengers left the plane first?

Also, cargo is stored between the cockpit and the passeger aisle. Again, weighing down the front of the plane to prevent tip tipping back.

The flight schedule follows the former MHS charted flight, with 2 flights a day, and no flights Friday, Saturday or Sunday, though rumour has it that this will change soon.

I’d get Firefly to tie up with the local Kerteh hotels, and package the flight and hotel ala Berjaya.

Also, when they going to sponsor Kampung Kuantan?

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IEM Shout Out – Flow Assurance

May 21, 2009

Disclaimer: the speaker is from Synergy.

Back to business. This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on the 22nd May. It’ll be at 5:30 pm (makan-makan at 5:00) at Wisma IEM. That’s right people, as part of the new health drive you are required to walk up 3 flights of stairs to get your 2 CPD points.

Oil and gas operations require assurance that a given product moves from one point to another. This assurance may require knowing for example, the backpressure caused by a transportation pipeline onto well production facilities, the amount of liquid and gases caused by the interplay of two phase flow in a pipe, the buildup of wax deposits that can constrict flow.

Abnormal situations are looked at as well, for example restarting a pipeline that has been stopped, blowing down a pipeline from high alarm limits, and pigging a line at various speeds. Flow assurance is the art of manipulating tools and providing an interpretation as to whether the given process and physical conditions may be cause and concern. An experienced flow specialist is able to analyze the system, and provide solutions to minimize the effects of unwanted flow artifacts. These solutions can be provided on a design as well as operational level.

Ir. Kevin Shanta has 14 years of experience in process design, simulation modeling (both steady state and dynamic) and plant operations. Upon graduating in 1994 he worked in the oleochemical industry managing the production of fatty acids He then moved to the oil and gas industry where he was involved in dynamic simulation of offshore topsides. He proceeded to broaden his skills by working the several design companies in Malaysia before moving to Perth to perform flow assurance for a subsea development.

Currently, he is the Technical Director for Synergy Oil and Gas Engineering, part of a multinational engineering company overseeing the Malaysia engineering operations.

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Saturday Star 2009-05-16 – Job Opportunities

May 18, 2009

Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:

  • First off, Synergy is looking for 5 lead safety engineers and 3 lead process engineers. Visit the Synergy website for contact details.
  • DNV is looking for a Senior Engineer /Consultant, for Marine Systems and Principal / Senior Engineer Consultant for DNV Energy Solutions. Send your resumes via email to Human.Resources.Malaysia@dnv.com
  • Secret Recipe is looking for… never mind, got hungry about here.
  • I see that SABIC is still recruiting. It wants project engineers,  mech design / elec design / C&S design / project / control sys / instr / safety engineers. You can apply via email here.
  • Keppel Offshore & Marine Training Centre is looking for a Senior Research Eng for Drilling and FPSO / Process. Apply to KOMtech@keppelom.com

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IEM Open Day – Photos

May 17, 2009

Hire me to take photos 🙂

The IEM does organise fun events, in addition to more learned occasions.

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From the Star – RM3.54m for CTI fund

May 16, 2009

Dateline 2009-05-16 (story link here):

MANADO: Malaysia will contribute US$1mil (RM3.54mil) to the Coral Triangle Initiative which aims to save the marine life in the region’s seas, dubbed the “Amazon of the oceans.”
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that although Malaysia was only a small part of the Coral Triangle, it supported regional programmes to protect, preserve and sustainably exploit its marine resources.
“We also support Indonesia’s offer to host the CTI secretariat,” he told Malaysian reporters covering the CTI Summit in the North Sulawesi capital yesterday.

You can subscribe to an online version of the paper at the Bluehyppo site, follow links to e-browse.

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