Saturday Star 2010-07-17 – Job Opportunities

July 19, 2010

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First off, if you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask.

  • Corro Shield, who is hosting a visit by the IEM on 5th August, 2010 is looking for a reservoir engineer / production technologist, blaster / painter, scaffolding inspector /scaffolder. Contact them here.
  • ExxonMobil is looking for a petrophysicist. They are accepting people with an Engineering degree, so that’s why this position is in the list.
  • Murphy is looking for a drilling fluid coordinator. Can someone tell me how do you coordinate drilling fluids? Do you stand in front of the barrels and shout “Fluids, leeeeeeft face!”?  Send your applications here.
  • Talisman is looking a Snr Drilling Engineer and Senior Production Technologist. Apply here, and visit their site.
  • Technip wants to has another advert in the paper. I guess there are too many positions to name, as the positions are now listed as Engineering, Accounts & Finance, Human Resources and Secretary (I very much doubt it comes with the prefix “Company”). Visit here soon.
  • Halliburton is looking for Reliability Engineers. Write in and send their details here.

I recently discovered tha Kinokunya KLCC has a whole rack dedicated to oil & gas topics. ‘Course, I would prefer if you bought the above selection from my site, but I value your continued education more than profit. Actually, I prefer it the other way round, so purchase stuff from me.

This selection focuses on the non-engineers among you. Try out Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language, The Petroleum Industry: A Nontechnical Guide, and Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language, Fourth Edition. I haven’t used these books before, but they seem quite good.

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Saturday Star 2010-06-26 – Job Opportunities

June 28, 2010

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First off, if you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask. I take it the industry’s booming again, looking at the number of ads in today’s paper.

Murphy is looking for a subsea engineering manager. Send your applications here.

Hmm, short list this week.

As for reading recommendations, I think the Millennium Trilogy would be your best bet. I didn’t realise that the author passed away in 2004, with the first English translation of his book being published posthumously. For those who don’t know which books I’m referring to:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage)

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Vintage)

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

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Saturday Star 2010-06-19 – Job Opportunities

June 21, 2010

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First off, if you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask. I take it the industry’s booming again, looking at the number of ads in today’s paper.

  • There is an opening as admin staff at Synergy. We are also looking for someone with the ability and personality to fill up the position as a permanent member of the family. To balance things out, we’re focusing on competent female applicants.
  • Wow, RasGas has a 1 1/2 page spread. It’s looking for field operators (onshore), shift supervisors, panel/senior operators. Walk-in on the 23rd to 25th June 2010 here. The interviews will be held here. They are also looking for a lead integrity eng, integrity engineering specialist (pressure vessels/ piping), snr integrity eng, integrity eng, lead mech eng, snr mech eng. Interview on the 24th and 25th, same place as before. And they are also looking for snr marine eng, head of maint & reliability, maint eng – elc, maint eng – instr, head of planning (maint), maint eng specialist – machinery & reliability, maint eng specialist – support services, planning eng, planning eng specialist, head of training and comp, training specialist (planning), snr training coordinator, interface eng specialist. Again, walk-in interviews on the 23-27 June, same place. CVs to be submitted here. You can phone the local recruiters at +603 2078 1917/8. I believe RasGas is a JV, one of the partners being ExxonMobil.
  • Ranhill WorleyParsons is looking for snr cost eng, lead design mech/piping, snr design mech/piping, design mech/piping, snr mech/piping designer, snr control & automation eng, design control & automation eng, control & automation eng, lead civil structural eng, lead elect eng, design senior project eng. Hey, how come they aren’t looking for process? I assume they have more than they need at the moment. Anyhow, apply online here. (I haven’t seen a *.cgi address in a looong time. Brings back the retro feeling). Alternatively, send your CVs here.
  • Sabic has an advert. They are looking for a snr eng (process safety – Jubail), Lead occupational health (Jubail), Snr Safety Eng (Riyadh). You can apply via email here or here. Or key in your resumes online here. Login under candidate login and password at the website.
  • Murphy is looking for a deputy snr project manager, facilities project manager, tech advisor and onshore fabrication head. Send your applications here.
  • If you want to look after the JDA, there’s a position open for a business planner / analyst. Send your applications here.
  • Lundin’s looking for people a drilling superintendent, snr drilling operations engineers. Visit their site and apply here.

I still think you should get engineering books.

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From Oil & Gas Journal – Brunei, Malaysia to share revenues from disputed oil blocks

June 20, 2010

Maybe I should have gone to the recent AOGC conference, and reported the events with my own slant on things. Can I get sponsorship for the next one, for the tune of USD1000?

And if Brunei owns oil blocks, why on earth would they share the revenue? Is Malaysia going to share the revenue of our oil blocks?

Dateline 2010-06-09, from Oil & Gas Journal:

Eric Watkins, OGJ Oil Diplomacy Editor

Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman acknowledged that neighboring Brunei owns two formerly disputed oil blocks, but that Malaysia will have a share of revenue produced from them.

Aman said the revenue-sharing was made possible through a commercial arrangement agreed to in March by leaders of the two countries, but that the two sides are still discussing the ratio of the revenues to be shared.

“If we look strictly at the interpretation of the law based on [United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea] 1982, it clearly belongs to Brunei,” said Aman in response to a question by opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Anwar had asked Aman to state the validity of the decision of the federal government to hand over Blocks L and M to Brunei, and why the issue of sovereignty of territorial waters of that area was not referred to the Malaysian parliament.

Earlier this year, Murphy Oil Corp.’s interests in Blocks L and M off Malaysia were terminated after resolution of a dispute with Brunei over control of the assets.

That agreement ended a dispute that erupted in 2003 when Petronas and Murphy were awarded two offshore leases, SB L and SB M. The blocks overlapped with Brunei’s Blocks J and K, which had been awarded to Total SA and Royal Dutch Shell PLC (OGJ Online, Apr. 22, 2010).

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Saturday Star 2010-05-15 – Job Opportunities

May 17, 2010

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  • For graduates, Technip wants to ‘Engineer a Successful Career’. It is embarking on the Graduate Skill Enhancement Program in Piping Design. They last advertised this program in June, 2009. Visit here soon. Interestingly enough, you can ask the Selangor Human Resource Development Centre as well (isn’t Technip in KL?).  Since sooo many people ask, here’s the basic requirements:
    • Degree in Mech, Pet or ChemEng
    • Min CGPA of 2.5 or 2-2 or better.
    • Ability to speak and write fluently in English. Oh, please let me be the judge of this.
    • < 28 yrs.
  • Murphy (you know, the company who was linked to the acreages ‘lost’ to Brunei?) are still going strong, kudos to them. They are looking for a subsea eng, snr metering eng (I humbly offer myself for consulting services), snr production eng (cut me a long term call off contract), and cost control assistant (we’ll do this to, ehem, ‘control’ the costs of the above two contracts). Send your applications here.

For a food recommendation, how about Peppercorns in SS15. It’s under new management now, but the menu’s still the same. We regularly schedule our management breakfasts and lunches there. For dinner, I could recommend Alisara, a Thai restaurant in Puchong. Food’s good, but a bit dear.

This week is nostalgia video week. I can finally afford to purchase DVD collections of series that were shown in the 80s on TV3. Back then, I don’t think TV3 focused much on showing complete series runs. Now I can afford it, I’m getting a collection of some of the more esoteric series: Robin of Sherwood, Nowhere Man and Wiseguy.

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Murphy Oil Announces First Quarter 2010 Earnings

May 14, 2010

The article actually talks about Murphy Oil in general, but there topics of interest to Malaysians as well:

Oil production declined in Malaysia in the 2010 quarter compared to 2009 due to a lower percentage of the Kikeh field’s gross production being allocatable to the Company under the production sharing contract. But this impact was somewhat offset in Malaysia by new condensate volumes associated with a natural gas field offshore Sarawak.

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The charges in 2010 were generated due to a combination of a stronger U.S. dollar versus the British pound and a weaker dollar versus the Malaysian ringgit. The stronger U.S. dollar led to foreign currency losses on dollar based liabilities in the sterling functional U.K. downstream operations, and the stronger Malaysian ringgit led to foreign currency losses on ringgit based income tax liabilities in the dollar functional Malaysian oil and gas operations.

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Saturday Star 2010-05-01 – Job Opportunities

May 3, 2010

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And now, on with our regular show.

  • My office is looking for part-time admin staff. Call Ibrahim at +603-56371015.
  • Ah, Murphy, Murphy, the stalwart of the hiring pages. They are looking for an auditor (that’s a position open for abuse, Snr Rotating Engineer, Snr Facilities Eng (hey, I didn’t know someone was leaving), Junior Subsea Eng, Petroleum Eng. Send your applications here.
  • SABIC is looking for people, and they are darn tootin’ doing it by having walk-in interviews. Let’s see, they are looking for Snr Eng (Centrifugal & Steam Turbines), Snr Eng (Screw), Snr Eng (Blowers and Pumps), Reliability Eng (no need, send your sole source RFQs to Synergy), and other similar positions. Walk-in interviews are at the Hyatt Regency, Pahang (3 June), J W Marriot KL (4 June), Renaissance Melaka (5 June), Park Everly Hotel Bintulu (6 June). You can apply via email here or here. Or key in your resumes online here. Mention to your interviewer I sent you.
  • I see that QatarGas is looking for people, and I see that the advert targets our Indonesian cousins. They are looking for Snr Resv Eng, Resv Eng, Snr Corrosion Eng. Apply here. or snail mail to PT NES Global Technical Consultant, c/o CEO Suite, One Pacific Place (Kidzania!) Sudirman Central Business District, 15th Floor, Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 52-5, Jakarta 12190, Indonesia.

No food recommendations photos this week. Lunch on Saturday was provided at Agrotek Resort Hulu Langat, near my parents place. Write ups of the place can be found here, here. Go visit the place. In an example of ‘so near, yet so far’, there are no phone and power lines to the place, yet it’s off jalan Hulu Langat, go figure. Contact number is +60192716994.

At some point in my reading career, I got interested in the historical side of mathematics. Examples of such books of this genre are Men of Mathematics, Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics, Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them.

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Murphy Oil block interests off Malaysia terminated

May 2, 2010

Is this old news? I haven’t heard anyone, Murphy or otherwise, moaning about lost opportunities. Now, does PETRONAS have to pay them for the loss of opportunity and sunken costs to date? And will they pay damages to us small contractors? And will that cost be then transfered to the rakyat?

Taken from the Oil & Gas Journal, dateline 2010-04-22:

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 22 — Murphy Oil Corp.’s interests in Blocks L and M off Malaysia have been terminated after resolution of a dispute with Brunei over control of the assets.

Murphy was informed by state-owned PETORNAS that the two blocks are no longer a part of the country following an agreement between Malaysia and the Sultanate of Brunei.

Murphy said its potential participation in replacement production-sharing contracts (PSCs) covering these areas is “under discussion.”

The announcement follows recent reports that the two southeast Asian countries are trying to implement an agreement made in March 2009 to establish a commercial arrangement area.

That agreement ended a dispute that erupted in 2003 when PETRONAS and Murphy were awarded two offshore leases, SB L and SB M. The blocks overlapped with Brunei’s Blocks J and K, which had been awarded to Total SA and Royal Dutch Shell PLC.

In a recent report, the Economist Intelligence Unit noted that Brunei and Malaysia are “inching closer towards resolving their border disputes.”

EIU noted in particular that “agreement on the land border could pave the way for a deal on the maritime border that would allow both countries to benefit from the discovery of new oil and gas deposits.”

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Saturday Star 2010-04-10 – Job Opportunities

April 12, 2010

First off, if you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, you are definitely Autom8 fodder.

  • I see that Qatar Petroleum is looking for people. Too bad that it isn’t looking for engineers, mainly ICT, Software Application Specialists, SAP people. Apply here.
  • Murphy is looking for support staff as well, Computerized Asset & Maintenance Management System Tech (this should be outsourced to Synergy), Network Admin, Comm/Planning, Exec, T&T Exec, HR Exec . What is this, hate your engineer week? Sigh, if you really must, send your qualifications here.
  • TÜV (you know, the qualification body that gave me FS Engineer status?) is looking for an ISO auditor. Send your qualifications here.
  • M3nergy is looking for Manager – Corp Comm, Manager (Finance/ Accounts), Snr Exec (Finance/ Accounts), Accounts Assistant. Another ‘no engineers needed’ add. Send your qualifications here or snail mail to M3nergy Berhad, Central Services Division (Recruitment Section) 25th and 32nd Floor, Wisma UOA II, 21 Jalan Pinang, 50450 KL.

This week’s food recommendation is Paya Serai, PJ Hilton. This is where the IEM Oil, Gas and Mining Technical Division relax after having our daily smoking session where we discuss the cricket scores, the affairs of Brunei, state of the Commonwealth and toast to the health of King Edward.

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Saturday Star 2010-03-27 – Job Opportunities

March 29, 2010

First off, if you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, you are definitely Babblefish fodder.

  • Those of you who have started comments with “I’m a graduate, oil & gas companies hate me, please spend your time and hourly rates getting me a job for free… oh, I want hot guys/girls, cold drinks, and an oil free environment offshore,’ go apply to Murphy as a Graduate Trainee. Send your qualifications (ROTFL) here.

That’s it?

No food recommendations this week.  If you want, you can go see my book recommendations, and make a purchase.

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