The IChemE in Malaysia just had its Regional Process Safety Seminar (RPSS) in KL, from August 18th to 19th, at the DoubleTree by Hilton. I turned up for one of their sessions.
Marketing Rounds – IChemE RPSS
September 23, 2015
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IChemE Malaysia Awards for Innovation and Excellence 2014
December 10, 2014Congratulations to the winners of the awards! I hope to be inspired by them.
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PETRONAS’ skills expansion to be supported by IChemE
September 20, 2014Should be the IEM, yeah?
Dateline 2014-07-04, Process and Control Today:
PETRONAS has become the first organisation in Malaysia to receive accreditation for its company training scheme by global professional body, the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).
PETRONAS, the national oil company of Malaysia, currently employs more than 30,000 employees group-wide, including 3,500 chemical engineers. It plans to grow rapidly over the next few years, including building the USD16 billion Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project.
PETRONAS expects it will need additional chemical engineers to support its expansion and in recent years has been working closely with the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), to develop its own world-class and globally recognised training scheme.
In June 2014, PETRONAS achieved a major milestone in its skills development strategy with formal accreditation by IChemE for its internal company training scheme called Accelerated Capability Development (ACD) for Chemical Engineering.
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IChemE 5th Regional Process Safety Seminar
June 4, 2014The IChemE 5th Regional Process Safety Seminar was held in Miri Marriot Spa & Resort, Miri Sarawak, Malaysia on the 22nd April, 2014. I hope the attendees were entertained and energised by my 5 minute presentation.
The following are my quick notes of the Q&A session are as follows (all misunderstandings are mine):
Keynote address: Process Safety Matters – why chemical engineers must lead the way in getting the right safety priorities on the agenda.
Keynote speaker: Judith Hackitt CBE, Chair of HSE, Britain.
- Leading indicators are important. For example, number of temporary measures to address process / hardware failures, amount of delayed maintenance.
- Number of Loss of Containment (LOC) incidents is not an indicator of process safety.
- Q: Transfer of UK HSE knowledge wholesale to Malaysia.
- Q: What is the best model to achieve safe operations, is it voluntary and regulatory regulations, and where does the safety case fit in?
- Q: How best to share safety information. Are legal/ commercial concerns stemming the flow of information?
- Q: Options on building a reporting culture in Malaysia and Asia.
Paper 1: Process Safety Implementation – Challenges and Success Stories
Speaker: Dr. Bea Ponnudurai, Head, Group HSE Division, PETRONAS.
- Information transfer between Gen Y and earlier generations. Gen Y may have a problem communicating.
Paper 2: I Get The Case for Safety – What About The Safety Case; what senior leaders need to know and do to ensure the robust implementation of the Safety Case
Speaker: Martin W. Iversen AFIChemE, Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Operational Assurance Manager, Talisman.
- Q: How do you make a safety case for things that have never happened before?
- Q: Challenge ourselves in creating these hypothetical cases, get external input.
- Q: How do I implement and prioritize a Remedial Action Plan?
Paper 3: Getting The Balance Right – or Feel The Strain
Speaker: Paul Heierman-Rix, Principal Consultant, MMI Engineering.
- Suggest independent review of the safety cases, i.e. other than the author (I like).
- Are the Safety Case and COMAH similar, what are the differences? Suggest principles are the same.
Paper 4: Incidents That Happened That Blamed Human Error
Speaker: Roger Ainsworth CEng CSci CEnv FIChemE, General Manager, Megamas Training Company Sdn Bhd.
- How do we treat old plants? They should be given more supervision and attention then new ones.
Paper 5: Using The Success Of Operational Safety “Life Saving Rules” Into Process Safety
Speaker: Willem Peuscher, HSE Delivery Manager, Shell Malaysia Exploration and Production.
- Q: Incident happens at least expected times. How do we account for this? Focus on key messages and life saving rules.
- Full enforcement of life saving rules.
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- Paul Heierman-Rix
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- Roger Ainsworth CEng CSci CEnv FIChemE
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- Willem Peuscher
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- Dr. Christina Phang
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- Judith Hackitt CBE
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- Dr. Christina Phang
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- Judith Hackitt CBE
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- Dr. Bea Ponnudurai
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- Martin W. Iversen
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- Martin W. Iversen
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QUILL-PETRONAS Team Wins IChemE Award for Ionic Material to Remove Hazardous Mercury
January 7, 2014Dateline 2013-11-11, Azom (?):
The project by Queen’s University Ionic Liquid Laboratories (QUILL), in collaboration with Malaysian oil and gas giant PETRONAS, was the major winner at the Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Awards. As well as collecting the award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemical and Process Engineering, the team won the Sustainable Technology Award and Chemical Engineering Project of the year, marking it out as the best chemical engineering project for innovation in waste reduction.
This is The Apprentice’s Nick Hewer with Professor Jim Swindall, Co-founder of QUILL and Paul Haworth, Chief Process Engineer at Sellafield Ltd. Credit: Queen’s University Belfast
The QUILL and PETRONAS team were presented with their awards by The Apprentice star and Countdown host Nick Hewer at the awards ceremony in Bolton.
QUILL scientists beat off competition from companies and universities around the globe to win the awards. Their lab, the first of its kind in the world, developed a new ionic liquid material to remove hazardous mercury from natural gas. Ionic liquids or ‘super solvents’ are salts that remain liquid at room temperature and do not release hazardous vapours. They can be used as non-polluting (green) alternatives to conventional solvents, and are revolutionising chemical processes by offering a much more environmentally friendly and sustainable solution than traditional methods.
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Shout Out: IChemE
February 9, 2012The Institution of Chemical Engineers will be holding a presentation on the 20th Feb, 2012. Go just to see Mr. Mustafa Mahmood.
The topic
The presentation will discuss the aspects of flow assurance challenges associated with deepwater subsea developments, particularly for long subsea tie-back projects.
Often one of the main operating concerns for deepwater subsea developments is hydrates and how best to operate outside the hydrate region. Flow assurance challenges often occur at the end of field life at low flowrates and how to extend the field life. However in order to optimise the MEG system (storage and process capacity) as well as addressing slugging and well start-up for late field life, flow assurance needs to be done in the design phase. This presentation highlights and addresses these issues.
The speaker
Mustafa Mahmood MIChemE has 23 years’ experience in conceptual and detail design of onshore / offshore projects. He is currently Flow Assurance Manager on deepwater developments at Intecsea and developing the Flow Assurance Team for South East Asia. He has extensive experience in all aspects of subsea process design and flow assurance for deepwater projects and was lead flow assurance engineer for subsea gas-condensate pipelines for an LNG project in Australia.
The venue
The event will take place at the Grand Millennium Kuala Lumpur, 160 Jalan Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Registration form here.
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Shout out – IChemE AGM
February 24, 2011
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IChemE Shout Out – AGM
March 13, 2010<NOTICE is hereby given of an ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING as follows
Date: Saturday 20th March 2010
Time:
- 09.00 am – Refreshments/Breakfast
- 09.30 am – AGM commences
Click here to link to the UM map:
(DK1 lecture theatre is at Block A Biomedical / Bioperubatan. As soon as you take the left turn slope to the Engineering Faculty, the Biomedical/ Bioperubatan Block A can be seen on the right. Once you park and get into the main foyer, the lecture theatre can be accessed on the far right of this block. You need to take the staircase up).
Agenda:
- Presentation of Board’s Annual Report Presentation and approval of the accounts of preceding financial year
- Report by External Auditors
- Election of Board Members for year 2011 (1st Jan – 31st Dec 2011)
- Election of Honorary Auditors
- Constitution amendments
- Any other matters properly brought forward
Notes: Members are to take note that in accordance with Article 8.5 of the Constitution of the IChemE Malaysia Branch,
Any member who wishes to place an item on the agenda of a General Meeting may do so provided he gives written notice to the Honorary Secretary seven (7) days before the meeting is due to be held.
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Shout Out – IChemE EGM
December 1, 2009The Institution of Chemical Engineers Malaysia is sending out a notice of an extraordinary general meeting on the 5th December, 2009. Details are:
- Time: 09.00 am
- Venue: Bilik Mesyuarat, Ground Floor, Fakulti Kejuruteraan & Alam Bina,
- UKM Bangi
- Agenda: Constitution amendments
The constitution amendment is to raise the annual subscription of members. For a member like me, the cost of my subscription goes up by 20+%. Guess which way I’ll vote?
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Optimal – A Fully PETRONAS Company
September 9, 2009I can’t find this news on any Malaysian news site. I first read about it in the TCE:
TO further ease its debts, Dow Chemical has agreed to sell its stake in Optimal to Malaysian partner Petronas for $660m.
I pulled an extract from Project Finance International (subscribers only):
Dow has recently sold its entire stake in Malaysia-based Optimal Group of Companies to Petroliam Nasional (PETRONAS).
From Optimal’s history page, there are only two investors, UCC (now part of DOW) and PETRONAS.
I remember when Optimal was sucking up the Kerteh workforce with higher pay and better compensation. They opened up an international school in Kerteh, to cater for the (highly paid) expats who came in for the first 2 years. They also closed the school when the expats left, so you know it wasn’t meant as a service to local staff, even those who could afford it.
So, does this mean that the current Optimal salary, wages and benefits (SWB) will be in line with the rest of PETRONAS? Is there going to be an exodus of talent from Optimal to … don’t think there are other high-paying jobs around the KIPP (Kawasan Industry Petroliam PETRONAS), so we’ll see another exodus overseas.
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