IEM Shout Out – Talk on Petronas Technical Solutions & Services

December 11, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My technical division will be having a pre-AGM talk on Saturday, 14th December, 2013 at 9am. Makan-makan at 8:30am.

This presentation will provide a quick introduction into the workings of Group Technical Solutions, a department under the Technology & Engineering Division (T&E). It comprises of:

1.  Sharing of specialised engineering solutions that have achieved standardisation across PETRONAS for operation and project execution requirements:
a.    PETRONAS Risk Based Inspection(PRBI™)
b.    PETRONAS Asset Life Study (P-ALS™)
c.    PETRONAS Instrumented Protective Function (P-IPF™)
d.    PETRONAS Electrical Safety and Operability Review (P-ELSOR™)
e.    iCON® – Process Simulation software

As for the speaker:

Ir. Pau Kiew Huai is the Head of PETRONAS Group Technical Solutions (GTS) and CEO of PETRONAS Global Solutions Sdn. Bhd. (PGTSSB). He first joined GTS in 2006 as General Manager for Engineering where he undertook various engineering and technical roles in the department before being made Senior General Manager in 2011. He was then appointed to his present position effective April 2006. Ir. Pau has over two decades of extensive experience in the Oil & Gas industry and holds a B.SC (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nottingham, the United Kingdom.

You can register here, and download the form here. A map to the Wisma IEM is provided here. Note Wisma IEM is where the nursing college is (don’t ask).

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IEM Shout Out – Talk on Petronas Technical Solutions & Services

December 9, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My technical division will be having a pre-AGM talk on Saturday, 14th December, 2013 at 9am. Makan-makan at 8:30am.

This presentation will provide a quick introduction into the workings of Group Technical Solutions, a department under the Technology & Engineering Division (T&E). It comprises of:

1.  Sharing of specialised engineering solutions that have achieved standardisation across PETRONAS for operation and project execution requirements:
a.    PETRONAS Risk Based Inspection(PRBI™)
b.    PETRONAS Asset Life Study (P-ALS™)
c.    PETRONAS Instrumented Protective Function (P-IPF™)
d.    PETRONAS Electrical Safety and Operability Review (P-ELSOR™)
e.    iCON® – Process Simulation software

As for the speaker:

Ir. Pau Kiew Huai is the Head of PETRONAS Group Technical Solutions (GTS) and CEO of PETRONAS Global Solutions Sdn. Bhd. (PGTSSB). He first joined GTS in 2006 as General Manager for Engineering where he undertook various engineering and technical roles in the department before being made Senior General Manager in 2011. He was then appointed to his present position effective April 2006. Ir. Pau has over two decades of extensive experience in the Oil & Gas industry and holds a B.SC (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nottingham, the United Kingdom.

You can register here, and download the form here. A map to the Wisma IEM is provided here. Note Wisma IEM is where the nursing college is (don’t ask).

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IEM Shout Out – Fundamentals Of Dynamic Simulation

February 4, 2010

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the above seminar on the 6th February, 2010. It’ll be at 9:30 am (makan-makan at 9:00) 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.

Process simulation is a model-based representation of chemical, physical and other technical processes and unit operations in oil, gas and petrochemical plants. The fundamentals are a thorough knowledge of chemical and physical properties of pure components and mixtures and of process reactions. All these are combined with mathematical models which allow the calculation of a process in computers.

Shahrul Azman Zainal Abidin is a Principal Engineer in Process Simulation and Optimization. Shahrul Azman graduated as a Chemical Engineer from California State University, Long Beach, USA in 1988. He obtained his MSc in Gas Engineering degree from University of Technology Malaysia in 1996.

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Both Shahrul Azman and Zalina are serving Group Technology Solutions, Research & Technology Division of PETRONAS.

The speakers are very passionate about their work, and would welcome any questions you care to bring up. Heck, bring along your copy of iCon if you have one.

If you want to see what Synergy does, please come and bring up our name in the question and answer session.

Fliers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here. It’s the building identified as ‘Puteri Nursing College.’

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IEM Shout Out – Maximising Value Creation Through Value Improvement Program

November 18, 2009

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the above seminar on the 21st November. It’ll be at 9:30 am (makan-makan at 9:00) 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.

This presentation outlines the techniques and process for achieving such optimisation by presenting case studies of five Value Improvement Program (VIP) in Petronas operating unit. This covers oil, gas and petrochemical businesses. Improvement opportunities were identified throughout the complexes with the feedstock interface yielding the largest profit gains. The program continues, but to date more than 50 opportunities have been implemented, from which the benefits has exceeded RM 50 million.

Lots of interesting monetary figures being bandied about in the blurb. Come and listen, and see if the speaker walks the talk.

The talk will be led by En. M. Taufik bin Mokhtar. En. Taufik obtained his masters degree from Imperial College, London, UK. En Taufik has 9 years of working experience in Petronas. His work experience includes plant operations and project management and provision of technical support services. He has led Value Improvement Program in various PETRONAS operating units and has helped the implementation of the program in five different plants in Kertih and Kuantan areas with success. Currently, En. Taufik is Staff Engineer in Group Technology Solutions, Research and Technology Division of PETRONAS.

Fliers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here. It’s the building identified as ‘Puteri Nursing College.’

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PETRONAS Contractors Forum 2009 – My Summary

August 12, 2009

Yesterday was the photo session, today I’ll provide my views on the presentations and discussions. As I didn’t bring in any recording devices, the piece below focusses on what interested me.

I arrived late, so I missed the Welcoming Speech and Keynote Address. My apologies.

First talk I attended was an introduction to PETRONAS’s inhouse steady state process simulation software, iCON. The talk was given by Mr Shahrul Azman Zainal Abidin, Principal Engineer GTS. I have seen this presentation and derivations of it over the past 5 years (starting in 2004/5, when it was called PetroSIM), so nothing spectacular there. You can go visit the VMG site to pick up a brochure of the civilian version of this package. I was interested to note that they are working on a dynamic version of the package.

After the tea break, we were treated to an application of how iCON was used to investigate and optimise onshore gas receiving facilities, of which LCOT was one. What was interesting to me was that the result of doing the work inhouse resulted in a cost saving of RM382k (±10k), which give me a baseline as to how much to charge for a reasonably simple network, and 3 operating cases. Woohoo! This portion was presented by Mr Muzaimi B A Talib, Staff Engineer PCSB.

We went through an overview of the famed PETRONAS Technical Standards, led by Ir V.R.Harindran, Custodian Engineer GTS. Too bad they weren’t giving handouts, as it was an interesting trip down memory lane. Some items I took away from the presentation was:

  • PETRONAS subscribes and sends representatives to a lot of governmental and international standards bodies.
  • The PTS are designed to be ‘fit for use.’
  • There is opportunity to challenge the PTS during project execution.
  • PETRONAS is looking towards getting user feedback on the PTS. By feedback, I assume they mean something structured and ISO 9001 traceable, as opposed to shouting at the PTS on the engineering floor.

There was next a presentation by Mr Alex Zulkarnain B Zulkarim, Senior Manager GTS. His concern was the quality of engineering expertise in PETRONAS, especially among the junior rank and file. Items he touched on were:

  • PETRONAS wants to be seen as a savvy buyer (there go my generous markup margins).
  • PNAS needs to upgrade its technological expertise and has acknowledged that work needs to be done.
  • There is a proposal to station PNAS engineers in the service providers office as part of enhancing their technological skills.
  • His remit was pretty much focused on developing PNAS engineers, not Malaysian engineers.

After the crowd was tranquillised with lunch, came the contractors’ point of view. Ir. Rozali Ahmad, president of MOGEC, presented on MOGEC’s aims, intentions and events calendar. But all this was blown away by the list of challenges the engineering companies have when faced with PETRONAS as a client. You’ll have to get the list from MOGEC, if they ever own up to presenting it in the first place.

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IChemE 2nd regional safety seminar – Part I

July 19, 2008

I attended the above seminar on Monday, 14th July 2007. Interesting crowd, for once I felt that I was among my brethren of ChemEng.

I took some notes on the first presentation ‘PETRONAS – Enhancing chemical process safety in PETRONAS towards superior performance’ delivered by Kumar Karunakaran of Group Technical Services.

  • Introduction to PETRONAS
  • Introduction to Process Safety
  • Process Safety Enhancements in PETRONAS
  • Implementation approach
  • Implementation of new Roles and Responsibilities
    • Champions
    • Focal Person
    • Process Safety Aspect Custodian
  • The role of Situational Assessments (SA).
  • Problem areas discovered during SAs.
    • Control of Safety Interlocks & Protective System Bypasses.
    • Inconsistent Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) application when used on non-electrical equipment.
    • Insufficient Pressure Relief Devices (PRD) performance evaluation.
  • Ensuring sustainability through monitoring and measurement
    • Establish Process Safety Community of Practice (CoP)
  • Key success factors.
  • Way forward.
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