IEM Shout Out – Brief Look at an Offshore Project Journey – Engineering Roles Beyond Detail Design

March 3, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the above talk by Ir. Tg. Fadziliaton on the 14th  March, 2015. Turn up by 8.30 to obtain nasi lemak.

The talk will gives a brief look on the journey of a typical oil and gas offshore project from FEED, Detail Design, Procurement, Fabrication up to the Commissioning.

Typically, a design engineer involvements is limited to the initial one or two stages of the project before they move on to the next project, more often due to end of their contract. The next stage of project is handled by a different group / team which does not have design engineers from the previous stages.

The design will usually evolve during each stage of the project even right up to the commissioning stage. It is very essential to keep every change to the minimum while maintaining the intended purpose of the design and to ensure a smooth information flow of these changes throughout the project. An awareness of the impact on change to the design beyond detail design stage i.e. procurement and fabrication needs to maintained.

Therefore, the design engineer should be involved and attached to a project up to and perhaps beyond the Commissioning stage, to support the above aims.

The objective of the talk is to familiarize with the stages of a project, the process and challenges of each stages and emphasis the important of information flow and the roles of the design engineer during each stage of the project.

Ir. Tengku Fadziliaton graduated from Loughborough University of Technology with degree in Chemical Engineering in 1997. She has started her career in the upstream oil and gas industry 17 years ago and has experience in detail design, fabrication, commissioning and operation in process engineer capacity. She has involved in projects for wellhead platforms, processing platforms and FPSOs as well as being part of operation support team for the same.

She is currently Senior Process Engineer in Engineering and Commissioning department in Kebabangan Petroleum Operating Company.

Register here, and pick up the brochure here.

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IEM Shout Out – Talk on Essential Soft Skills to be A High Performance Engineer

February 11, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 14th Feb, 2015 by Ir. Low Chew Eow (Rocky). It’ll be at 9:00 am (makan-makan at 8:30) at Wisma IEM.

Very often, we have the perception that technical (hard) skills are the key to become a successful engineer. It is true but the technical skills are not the only ingredient. In fact, soft skills are also essential to become a high performance engineer in the competitive, challenging and dynamic working environment today.

Due to the above mentioned perception, most of the students in university and the engineers in the work place do not pay enough attention to learn the required soft skills.

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Ir. Low Chew Eow (Rocky) graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1990. He has more than 24 years of working experience in various roles.

He is appointed as Industry Advisor of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Faculty of Engineering and Science.

He is currently the Head of Package Equipment Department in Technip Consultant (M) Sdn. Bhd. He is also the Member of Expert Network specializing in Pneumatic Conveying System within the Technip group.

He has presented talks at the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia.

You may register here, and download the form here.

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IEM Shout Out – Talk on Essential Soft Skills to be A High Performance Engineer

February 4, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 14th Feb, 2015 by Ir. Low Chew Eow (Rocky). It’ll be at 9:00 am (makan-makan at 8:30) at Wisma IEM.

Very often, we have the perception that technical (hard) skills are the key to become a successful engineer. It is true but the technical skills are not the only ingredient. In fact, soft skills are also essential to become a high performance engineer in the competitive, challenging and dynamic working environment today.

Due to the above mentioned perception, most of the students in university and the engineers in the work place do not pay enough attention to learn the required soft skills.

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Ir. Low Chew Eow (Rocky) graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1990. He has more than 24 years of working experience in various roles.

He is appointed as Industry Advisor of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Faculty of Engineering and Science.

He is currently the Head of Package Equipment Department in Technip Consultant (M) Sdn. Bhd. He is also the Member of Expert Network specializing in Pneumatic Conveying System within the Technip group.

He has presented talks at the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia.

You may register here, and download the form here.

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IEM – MPH Book Tie up

December 17, 2014

In case you haven’t noticed, your IEM membership brings you benefits at your local MPH store. Run, don’t walk.

Jurutera October 2014 IEM MPH

 

Jurutera October 2014 IEM MPH

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IEM Shout Out – Talk on Fitness to Work Offshore: Medical Requirements

December 9, 2014

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 13th December, 2014 by Dr. Hazlee Bin Abdul Hadi . It’ll be at 9:00 am (makan-makan at 8:30) at Wisma IEM.

Offshore medicals are carried out to ensure an individual is fit to work in an offshore oil and gas exploration and production environment and travel to a specific country, and to promote good health in general.
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In April 2012, Dr. Hazlee was appointed as Medicine and Occupational Health Advisor for PETRON Fuel International (M) Sdn Bhd at Menara I & P, Damansara Kuala Lumpur until now. He is a member of Malaysian Corporate Health Advisors Forum (MCHAF).

You may register here, and download the form here.

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IEM Shout Out – Talk On Integrated Waste Recovery and Regeneration System (REGEN System) in Palm Oil Mill

December 9, 2014

This is a shout out for the IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division (know as CETD to friends) will be an afternoon talk on Friday, 12th Dec, 2014 by Dr. Denny K. S. Ng and Dr. David L. K. Lim.

As pointed out by National Biomass Strategy 2020, Malaysia had 83 million dry tonnes of palm-based biomass in 2012 with an estimated value of RM 24.9 billion. This is expected to increase to approximately 100 million dry tonnes by 2020.  Besides, palm oil mill effluent (POME) is also expected to increase to 100 million tonnes by 2020.  Based on the huge amount of palm-based biomass and POME available, there is a huge potential to recover and regenerate those biomasses into value-added products. To fully recover the biomasses, an integrated waste recovery and regeneration system (REGEN System) in palm oil mill is developed.  In this talk, an overview of REGEN system is presented. Besides, applications of REGEN system in palm oil mill are also discussed.

As for the speakers:

Dr. Denny K. S. Ng is the Founding Director of Centre of Sustainable Palm Oil Research and Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus.  He is also the Manager of Professional Training at the Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies and Research Theme Associate of Crops for the Future Research Centre (CFFRC). His areas of specialisation include energy management, resource conservation via process integration techniques (pinch analysis and mathematical optimisation), synthesis and analysis of biomass processing and integrated bio refineries, as well as energy planning for greenhouse gas emission reduction.

Dr. David L. K. Lim is the Managing Director of Eureka Synergy Sdn. Bhd. Besides, he is also Executive Director of Havys Oil Mill Sdn. Bhd., Green Plant Organic Fertilizer Sdn. Bhd., etc. Dr. David Lim received his PhD in rotor-dynamic engineering from Staffordshire University, UK in 1994.  He has more than 15 years of hand-on experience in palm oil industry including designing of palm oil mill, development of biomass processing technologies, etc.

You can register here, and download the form here.

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3rd IEM Chemical Engineering Design Competition – Whetting your Appetite

November 17, 2014

For those of you who will be participating in the upcoming workshops, we present the reports of last year’s workshops here (PRO II Training) and here (Safety and Environmental).

Here’s a link to the main info page (sorry, registration is now closed)

May the best team win.

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IEM Shout Out – Course on Corrosion Control of Steel Structures by Cathodic Protection

November 13, 2014

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the one day course by Mr. Kang Kim Ang and Engr. Ong Wei Rex on the 28th  November, 2014 at 9am.

Cathodic protection (CP) is one of few most widely applied corrosion protection methods. It has been successfully used to overcome corrosion and extension of service life of structures. The course is aimed to provide the understanding of principle of CP, techniques of CP survey and measurements and interpretation of CP survey data.The course will introduce you to the following topics:

  • Principle of Cathodic Protection
  • Type of Cathodic Protection
  • Criteria of Cathodic Protection
  • Electrical Measurement for Cathodic Protection System
  • Special Cathodic Protection Survey Techniques

Mr. Kang Kim Ang, MSc. Corrosion (UMIST. U.K.),Dip. Materials Engineering (TARC), C.Eng., FIMM, Micorr, a Chartered Engineer registered with Engineering Council, UK and the Corrosion Specialist and Cathodic Protection Specialist accredited by National Association of Corrosion Engineer (NACE), USA and Institute of Materials, Malaysia (IMM).

Engr. Ong Wei Rex, M.Eng. Mechanical (UTM), B.Eng. Mechanical (Material) Engineering (UTM), Cathodic Protection Specialist by National Association of Corrosion Engineer (NACE), USA and CP Technologist Level 2 accredited by Institute of Materials, Malaysia (IMM).  Eng Ong is a Graduate Member of IEM.  He is also an active committee member of the Chemical Engineering Technical Division.

You may register for the event here, and download the flyer here.

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IEM Shout Out – 2 Day Course on Course on Asset Management Standards and Assessments

November 11, 2014

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the two day course by Ir. Al-Khairi on the 8th  and 9th December, 2014 at 9am.

The main aims of this course are to:

  • Introduce participants to the concepts, practices and application of asset management and their implications for the optimized management of physical assets;
  • Provide an overview of PAS 55 /iSO55000 requirements for physical asset management and how these apply to the organisation;
  • Review options and good industry practice for asset management planning and for implementation of optimized plans over asset life cycles;
  • Show how these can be integrated with a business management system to align with other requirements including management system standards, relevant specifications and regulatory requirements;
  • Learn how to do good asset auditing and assessment programme.

Ir. Al-Khairi has 20 years of experience in research, cement, oil and gas, petrochemical, oleo chemicals industries and health care facilities. He has gained various experiences in design, construction, testing and commissioning, operate and maintain facilities and plants from various multinational companies both abroad and locally. He has served in various roles as engineers and manager to the plant and facilities.

You may register for the event here, and download the flyer here.

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IEM Shout Out – Visit to Hanson Quarry

November 11, 2014

This is a shout out for the IEM. My technical division will be hosting a trip to Hanson Semenyih Quarry on the 18th November, 2014. You will be anointed with 4 CPD / PDP hours.

Hanson Quarry Products Sdn Bhd is the largest producer of aggregates and asphalt nationwide whilst Hanson Building Materials Malaysia Sdn Bhd holds a strong market position in ready-mix concrete.

Their vision is to remain as Malaysia’s number one aggregates company supported by first class concrete, asphalt, logistics operations. We strive to achieve global recognition for excellence through our key values of safety, high performance, innovation, respect, integrity and sense of ownership.

Hanson Malaysia operates 21 quarries producing aggregates strategically located throughout Peninsular Malaysia, almost 20 asphalt plants mostly sited in Hanson Malaysia’s quarries and over 40 ready-mix concrete plants serviced by approximately 400 mixer trucks.

Hanson Malaysia industry experience is extensive, enhanced through global exposure which comes from being part of Heidelberg Cement Group – the largest supplier of aggregates in the world with leading positions in cement and ready-mix concrete.

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Register here, and download the form here.

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