Shout Out – IEM OGMTD AGM

November 19, 2009

The Oil, Gas & Mining Tech Division will be having their (our?) 19th AGM on Sat, 21st Nov, 2009 at 10.30 am, at the 3rd Floor, Auditorium, Wisma IEM, Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Please come and get yourself elected into the Committee.

AGENDA (I guess I should be intimately familiar with this, seeing that I am the Sec/Treas)

  1. Opening Address by the Chairman of Session 2008/2009.
  2. Confirmation of Minutes of the 18th Annual General Meeting held on 22nd November 2008
  3. Matters Arising.
  4. Secretary’s Report for the Session 2008/2009
  5. To receive and adopt the Financial Statement for the year ending 30 October 2009
  6. Election of the Office Bearers for the Session 2009/2010
  7. Address by the Chairman for Session 2009/2010
  8. Any Other Business

Your presence will contribute to the success of this meeting. Actually, I’m hoping that you will raise all sorts of issues and questions. How about challenging me for the position of Deputy Chairman?

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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Shout Out – Talk on Intellectual Property

November 14, 2009

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 16th November, 2009. It’ll be at 5:30 pm (makan-makan at 5:00) 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.

In the course of their work, engineers may have to face many issues related to Intellectual Property (IP) rights. They may even have generated their own IP that requires protection. In this talk, the main speaker, Mr. Rozlan Khuen will dwell with issues such as the definition of IP, need to protect IP and how to determine if someone is infringing someone else’s e IP.

If you work for a big multinational, I suggest if you have a brilliant idea, work on it in your own time, outside office hours, away from the office. ‘Course, if you have a money making idea, your owner… I mean employer will say that you were inspired by the work the slave driver… I mean company provided, hence they own your gluteus maximus, and any money derived thereof. The speaker can prove me wrong, though.

The above will be presented by Mr. Ng Khuen Wee (Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya and a MBA Graduate from the University of Malaya where he majored in International Business and Corporate Finance) and Ir. Dr. Abdul Aziz Abdul Raman (Associate Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department, University of Malaya. He started his career with Dowell Schlumberger and moved around as a process engineer with Golden Hope and later with Nestle until 1993 where he joined University of Malaya as a lecturer).

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 – CETD AGM

September 29, 2009

This is a shout out for the IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division (know as CETD to friends) will be having our AGM on Saturday, 3rd 10th October, 2009 at 11am.

Your presence will contribute to the success of this meeting.

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IEM Shout Out – Emerging Technologies to Monetize Small Natural Gas Resources

September 27, 2009

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on Saturday 10th October, 2009. It’ll be at 9:00 am (makan-makan at 11:00) 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.

The number of large natural gas fields for mankind’s exploitation is reducing as we go into the future. Future natural gas fields are relatively smaller, scattered in various geographical locations and contains higher acidic components. As the world’s energy demand continues, there is an urgent need to develop emerging technologies to monetize small natural gas resources around the globe which could not be economically carried out now.

The above will be presented by  Dr. Ir. Chan Tuck Leong, is a Chemical Engineer graduated from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. He is currently the Head of Gas Technology in the gas business of the national oil company. His responsibility covers assessment of emerging gas monetization technology for commercialization and exploitation of small gas reserves.

Fliers for the above and other events may be obtained here.

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IEM Shout Out – Water Recovery Network for a Process Plant

September 16, 2009

This is a shout out for the IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division (know as CETD to friends) will be having a half-day workshop on Saturday, 3rd October, 2009.

Industrial water recovery is commonly accepted as a promising mean to the water scarcity problem faced by the world-wide community. However, many regard that water recovery can only be achieved by the installation of purification units (e.g. filter) at the effluent discharge point of the wastewater treatment tank. This is indeed not true, as there are always direct reuse and recycle opportunities to be explored prior to the use of purification units, provided that appropriate mixing and segregation rules are followed.
Water pinch analysis technique has been widely accepted as a systematic design tool in synthesizing a water recovery network for maximum efficiency. It establishes the minimum fresh water and wastewater flowrates needed for a process plant after maximizing the reuse/recycle potential of its water sources, base on first principle (termed as targeting). After the water flowrate targets are established, some design rules are used to synthesize a network that achieves maximum water recovery.

As for the speaker:

Engr. Dr Dominic Foo is an Associate Professor with the University of Nottingham,  Malaysia Campus. Engr Dr Foo is a world leading researcher for waste minimisation,
focusing on the systematic design of water recovery systems. He published more than 40 journal papers and made more than 100 presentations in various conferences. He is a book editor on the design and optimisation techniques for sustainable processes. Engr Dr Foo conducts training for practicing engineers in the area of waste minimisation and process simulation.

Water pinch sounds interesting. Please come along, and partake of the food (both intellectual and physical).

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IEM OGMTD – Drilling Seminar

August 20, 2009

The Oil, Gas and Mining Technical Division of the IEM hosted a one day ‘Drilling Engineering Overview’ seminar on August 5, 2009. It was conducted by Mr. Abdul Razak Yakob and held at the Wisma IEM, attracting 21 participants.

Razak started out with an icebreaking session with the participants, enquiring as to their backgrounds and what the participants wanted to get out of the course.

He then kicked off his seminar with an overall background to the topic. He described the differences between onshore and offshore drilling, and presented photos of various drilling rigs available in the market. He introduced the rig management structure, showing a slide summarizing the various personnel manning the drilling operations.

Razak then discussed the different mechanical parts that make up the drilling equipment, whether on the rig floor or the support peripherals. Among the different equipment that were described was the Christmas tree, drill bit, drilling fluids, casing and cementing. An introduction to interpretation of logging results formed a part of the seminar, giving the participants a taste of analyzing well data. To provide some feel as to the information technology involved in drilling, the software suites used for data management, engineering and facilities integration was shown.

He then moved on to describe the well life cycle stages, which is construction, implementation, analysis and improvement.

Razak introduced the participants to the economical side of the operations, showing some shocking numbers. He then scared the living daylights out of us by providing some insight into the hazards associated with drilling.

Directional drilling was the next topic of the day.

A quick overview of drilling analysis was provided.  Participants were reminded of their undergraduate statics courses, where force balances, and torque plays an important part of the analysis.

Casing design was touched upon. This section covered the types of casing integrated into a well, and design considerations.  The importance of a correct cement job was discussed, as well as the analytical tests  to ensure the cement has the correct properties for the job.

Last but not least was more detail into the drilling fluids, and the required properties for different types of jobs.

The participants were from a mix, covering well grounded engineers who wanted to network and share experiences, to water wellbore engineers looking to see how different types of drilling technologies may be applicable to similar circumstances. And it is always a delight to see Razak in full flow.

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IEM Shout Out – Maximise Water Reuse / Recycle

July 29, 2009

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 5th August. It’ll be at 5:30 pm (makan-makan at 5:00) 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.

Rapid industrial growth has contributed to serious water pollution in the world; hence, effective measures are needed to reduce industrial water use and discharge. Water reuse and recycle are commonly accepted as the most promising solutions to the water problems faced by the world-wide community. However, only recently has a systematic design strategy for maximum water recovery in the process plants is being established. In this regard, process integration techniques have been the main focus towards the development of this systematic design strategy. In this talk, novel process integration techniques based on pinch analysis technique will be shown on how to design a water network in a systematic way.

The above will be presented by Engr. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dominic Foo. who is an Associate Professor with the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus.

Fliers for the above and other events may be obtained here.

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IEM Shout Out – Drilling Engineering Overview

July 27, 2009

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the above seminar on the 5th August.

Drilling Engineering Overview shall present the audience with the knowledge and arts of drilling wells, especially in Malaysia. It shall be presented in a way that is comprehensible to the engineers who are with or without the oil and gas background. The objectives of the seminar are to provide exposure to audiences the drilling practices and issues as well as to assert the audience with an appreciation of a Drilling Engineer’s work scope.

The seminar will be led by En. Razak Yakob. He has been in the oil and gas industry for 13 years working for companies such as ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and Talisman Energy. As a consultant, he has worked in countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Algeria and others.

Fliers for the above and other events may be obtained here.

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IEM Shout Out – Steam Boiler Course and Scenario Thinking

July 4, 2009

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on the 7th July. It’ll be at 5:30 pm (makan-makan at 5:00) 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.

It is a truism that the future is unpredictable. However, its development can be better anticipated through developing and using scenarios. Scenarios are stories about different and plausible futures that can be created using the powerful scenario thinking and planning tools. They assist the decision makers and business planners to be more anticipative and adaptive to the changes and critical uncertainties impacting their businesses as they navigate the future.

The above will be presented by Victor Foo, and has been jointly organised by the Society of Institution of Engineers Australia

Also, my Tech Division is hosting a steam boiler operations & maintenance course as well. It’s at ILSAS, on the 7-8 July, 2009.

  • Chapter 1 – Factories and Machinery Act, 1967
  • Chapter 2 – Introduction to Steam Boilers
  • Chapter 3 – Boiler Operations and Trouble-shootings
  • Chapter 4 – Boiler Water Treatments
  • Chapter 5 – An Introduction to Combustion
  • Chapter 6 – Boiler Maintenance and Repairs
  • Chapter 7 – Non-Destructive Testing and Basic of Metallurgy
  • Chapter 8 – Steam Boiler Failures

The above will be presented by Ir. Mohd Normarzuki Ya’acob.

Fliers for the above and other events may be obtained here.

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