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Anniversary – Exxon Valdez
March 24, 2022
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Random Promo – Bichi Mao
March 23, 2022Disclaimer – I have no financial interest, I am a Patreon backer of the artist, Bichi Mao.
Have a look at their work see if it doesn’t tug your heartstrings. Purch their merch.
Everything has its own priority, when you reach animals and have the means, please manage pet breeding, support trap, neuter and release programs and your local animal shelter.
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Oil royalties bait won’t bite, PAS tells Zaid
March 22, 2022Why not?
Dateline 2022-02-07, FMT:
The Kelantan PAS Youth wing says payment of oil royalties to the state by the federal government is the right of the people and should not be used as a political bait.
Commenting on former law minister Zaid Ibrahim’s statement asking the voters to kick PAS out if they want the royalty payments, state PAS Youth chief Kamal Mohamad said such a decision must not be tied to the party which is ruling the state.
He said the people of Kelantan had previously been betrayed by the Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) government when it was in power by restricting the granting of oil royalties.
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Malaysia revs up carbon, capture and storage developments
March 21, 2022Again, reduce, reuse, recycle, re-elect:
Dateline 2022-02-01, upstream:
Malaysia is targeting start-up of its first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in 2025 and the second such development – also offshore Sarawak – is touted for the following year.
For Petronas Carigali’s Kasawari phase 2 project – the nation’s maiden CCS development – the extracted and compressed carbon dioxide will flow some 135 kilometres via a pipeline to the M1 field where it will be injected into a depleted reservoir.
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Malaysia’s Petronas offers 14 exploration blocks, discoveries, late-life assets
March 20, 2022How about giving them to local communities and coops?
Dateline 2022-01-27, Reuters:
Malaysia’s state energy firm Petronas said it was offering 14 offshore exploration blocks, six clusters of discovered resource opportunities (DRO), and one cluster of late-life assets (LLA) in its annual bid exercise launched on Thursday.
The exploration blocks offered in the Malaysia Bid Round (MBR), aimed at attracting investors to undertake exploration activities, mostly contain existing oil or gas discoveries.
Those are located in prolific geological provinces within the Malay, Sabah and Sarawak basins, Petronas said in a statement.
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Malaysia’s Sabah aims to win big as world’s first green palm oil state
March 19, 2022Dateline 2022-01-28, Reuters:
For Ettol Kumpilon, the switch from growing rice to oil palm on his small family farm in Malaysia’s eastern state of Sabah has enabled him to renovate his home, send his eldest child to school and build up a healthy pot of savings.
But with climate change fuelling rising temperatures that are hurting his yields, the 40-year-old has joined an innovative scheme that aims to raise sustainability standards among all palm oil producers across the state on Borneo island.
Its goals are to protect wildlife and forests, tackle land disputes and worker abuses, improve harvests and open the door to premium-paying palm oil buyers from around the world.
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South Korean, Malaysian players tie-up on green hydrogen venture in Sarawak
March 18, 2022Dateline 2022-01-26, Upstream Online:
South Korea’s Samsung Engineering, Posco and Lotte Chemical plus SEDC Energy – a Sarawak Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) subsidiary– have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a green hydrogen and ammonia project.
The Sarawak H2biscus green hydrogen/ammonia project (H2biscus Project) will be located in Bintulu, East Malaysia which is already home to the Petronas LNG Complex and Shell’s gas-to-liquids facility.
The H2biscus Project is looking to convert hydropower and natural gas to green hydrogen/methanol and blue hydrogen, and for the conversion of hydrogen to ammonia, aiming to supply hydrogen and ammonia to Korea and Sarawak.
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Malaysia charges second Aker Solutions official with using false documents
March 17, 2022Dateline 2022-01-26, Reuters:
Malaysia on Wednesday charged an official at Norway’s largest oil services provider Aker Solutions , accusing him of using false documents to secure a license renewal, according to the company and a court charge sheet.
Mohd Yusof Ab Rahman, 54, a manager at the Malaysian office of Aker Solutions, plead not guilty at a Kuala Lumpur court, a prosecutor told Reuters. He faces two years in jail, a fine, or both, if convicted.
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Anniversary – Pengerang
March 16, 2022Malaysian engineers never forget.
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What the Kelantan oil royalty issue is all about
March 15, 2022Let’s resalt this old would.
Dateline 2022-01-17, FMT:
The row over oil royalty for Kelantan has been revived by those who claim the state has been unfairly deprived of what it deserves, and that it has affected the state’s development.
The Kelantan government and like-minded activists have been demanding the oil royalty for decades, only for it to be dismissed repeatedly by Putrajaya, on the ground that oil is extracted outside Kelantan’s territorial waters.
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