(Did I tell you that I’m leaving Poyry and starting my own oil and gas consultancy in the New Year?)
One of our lady engineers was interviewed by the IChemE.
IChemE extract - Afida Interview
It helps that the IChemE is renting space in our office 🙂
Note: I know they refer to Afida as Sikandar, and that this is in the October issue of TCE. Check out her graduation date, we grab them while they are hot!
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Us in the oil and gas industry always say that safety is paramount. We have catchphrases to impress this into the work culture:
Engineers work hard to ensure that there are design safeguards in place:
If a risk can’t be eliminated by design, then procedures are put in place and enforced to reduce the risk to the people and assets:
The photo below shows a design feature I like that has been incorporated into a water cooler. Note the knob on the hot water dispenser button. The knob has to be rotated before you can press the button. This reduces the risk that a child could scald themselves if they get it in their minds to experiment with the unit.
Safety Engineering
Why not put the knob on all the buttons, you may ask? Well, that is the realm of risk analysis, and cost-benefit studies. The convenience of dispensing tepid or cold water outweighs the risk of a messy puddle cause by a young experimentalist.
Another thing this brings to mind is an analysis of applicable features. Would you require this (presumably more expensive) feature if the water dispenser is in an office environment?
Oh, if you decide to buy the above brand, please give me a cut 🙂
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Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:
It must still be a slow week, that’s the only engineering job I can find.
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I was curious as to what online engineering forums Malaysian engineers use to seek information. Okay, I am assuming you have Internet access in your office. First off, I hope that you use my blog and topics to start discussion threads (and maybe I make a buck or two if you find useful stuff).
Other sources of information I’ve used are:
Please share your favourites. I’m especially interested in a place that talks about tech challenges in Malaysian territorial waters. I need some hand holding as well 🙂
View from Business Class
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Ah, even little brother (MISC) can get on PETRONAS’s nerve once in a while. Apparently there’s a whole story about crappy design methodologies and a design contractor working without proper oversight.
Ruby FPSO replacement - PETRONAS headache
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Talk about ironic. I find this one page glossy card-stock ad in my August addition of Jurutera (I know, it takes me a while to get through my stack of papers).
Ad - Engineers Move to Australia
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The advertiser must still be in a holiday mood, there weren’t any O&G adverts in the papers on Saturday.
Offshore Sleeping Quarters
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Here’s a link to the Driller’s article, ‘In the oil patch, a rising death rate’?
I wonder what the death rate is around here in Malaysia? Deaths that I do know about are:
These events can still happen even with the best of intentions, and with our mindset of ‘safety first, above all’. Maybe you should hang around with old timers, and they can tell you of stories offshore. We don’t have the events at the scale of Piper Alpha, but the danger is always there.
Tea Pot, Sukajadi Hotel, Bandung
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Hui Hin explains her trip offshore … in pictures.
Visit here blog here.
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From the Star:
KUALA LUMPUR: The two hijacked MISC chemical tankers MT Bunga Melati Dua and MT Bunga Melati Lima are being escorted to Djibouti by the Malaysian Navy following their release by Somali pirates on Saturday and Monday, respectively.
Petrolium Nasional Bhd (PETRONAS) president and chief executive officer Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Merican said the vessels were still within the danger zone, and that it would take a few days for them to reach Djibouti.
“All crew members aboard both vessels are safe and relatively healthy. They are traumatised, but are being attended to by our trauma team,” he told a press conference at the MISC office here yesterday.
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He admitted that a ransom was paid, but refused to say how much. Media reports claimed the firm had paid US$2mil (RM6.9mil) ransom for the release of each vessel.
He said although paying ransom was against the company’s policy, MISC had to pay to secure the release of its crew members.
“We delivered the money to them with the help of our navy, it was cash on delivery.”
Doesn’t the second to last sentence above seem contradictory, and an opening for anyone to traumatize PETRONAS company staff for the monetary rewards?
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