October 12, 2017
Any may I complement Izhar Hifnei Ismail on his eloquence, and when will he do a photo op with me? Muar boleh!
Dateline 2017-08-31, Japan Times:
The PIPC sits on a 20,000-acre piece of land in Pengerang, in Malaysia’s Johor state. The PIPC is designed to accommodate downstream oil and gas industrial facilities such as refineries and petrochemical plants, deep-water terminal and storage tanks, naphtha crackers, regasification plants and supporting facilities, as well as manufacturing plants and industrial parks.
To be developed in phases, the PIPC covers both core and non-core downstream activities. Included in the PIPC master plan are designated areas for related support services such as a plastic and fine chemicals park, a light and medium industrial park, a waste management center, an emergency response center, a logistics hub, a commercial hub and others.
The striking attraction of the PIPC lies in the robust design of the PIPC master plan that strives to enable and promote future growth and sustainability, by offering a wide spectrum of investment opportunities targeted at downstream oil and gas players.
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April 6, 2017
Yeah, Yazid!
Dateline 2017-02-24, Malay Mail:
The subdistrict of Pengerang in Johor thrives as a downstream oil and gas industry hub, with investment worth billions of ringgit as a result of brilliant strategies introduced by Johor Petroleum Development Corporation Berhad (JPDC).
JPDC, a subsidiary of Malaysia Petroleum Resources Corporation (MPRC), has a big hand in the development of the Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex (PIPC).
The complex situated in Pengerang, which sprawls over 8,093 hectares of land, is an integrated hub with an investment potential of RM221 billion (US$52 billion). Its facilities include liquefied natural gas (LNG) and petrol storage tanks, petrochemical plant, regasification plant, refinery, power plant and facilities to decompose naphthalene.
“JPDC is optimistic that it will attract more investment to PIPC,” said its chief executive Mohd Yazid Jaafar.
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February 26, 2017
Dateline 2017-01-26, Yahoo! Finance:
Malaysia’s state oil firm Petroliam Nasional Berhad said on Thursday its new $27 billion refining and petrochemical complex project in the southeast Asian country is on track for start-up in 2019.
Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday that Saudi Aramco had shelved its plans for a partnership with the company, known as Petronas, on the Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project, raising questions about its future.
RAPID, located within the Pengerang Integrated Complex in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, is designed to have a 300,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery and a petrochemical complex with a production capacity of 7.7 million metric tonnes.
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August 7, 2016
Dateline 2016-06-27, NST:
PETROLIAM Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has achieved another milestone by receiving the tallest and heaviest propylene fractionator process column for the steam cracker facility within its Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Pengerang, Johor, on Saturday. The fractionator would complement the overall development of the PIC, poised for its refinery start-up by early 2019. It also established a new record as the tallest and heaviest process column to have landed on Malaysian shores. The column measures 121.3m — equivalent to a 36-storey building — and weighs 1,808.6 tonnes. “I am proud to announce that our propylene fractionator has been recognised by the Malaysia Book of Records as the tallest and heaviest process column in Malaysia,” said Petronas senior vice-president and Petronas Refinery and Petrochemical Corporation Sdn Bhd chief executive officer (CEO) Dr Colin Wong Hee Huing.
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April 19, 2016
What technical symposium?
Dateline 2016-03-01, Malaysia Digest:
Malaysia remains a preferred location for business operations, especially in the petrochemical and oil & gas (O&G) related industries.
This is despite facing global headwinds, said Malaysian Investment Development Authority (Mida) Chief Executive Officer Azman Mahmud.
He said Malaysia had the infrastructure for these industries and was still fundamentally strong with the economy expected to grow between 4.0% and 4.5% this year.
“With the implementation of the Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex and the Petronas Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development project, Malaysia has now been placed on the world map for building opportunities for growth in this ecosystem,” he told reporters after officiating the Schmidt + Clemens Group Technical Symposium here today.
Schmidt + Clemens is a producer of special steel components and a supplier of services for plant operators and mechanical equipment manufacturers.
The company has invested more than 14 million euros in a new production plant at the Sendayan Tech Valley in Seremban, while planning to add a few more machines this year.
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April 14, 2016
As the song says, “So true, funny how it seems..“, and matches my call for classical engineering degrees, rather than needle-sharp niche ones.
Dateline 2016-02-28, Malay Mail Online:
State oil giant Petronas’ flagship project in Johor’s south-eastern tip of Pengerang has become a life raft for many oil and gas workers as contracts and new job opportunities dried up across the board over the past year.
The building of a new oil refinery and petrochemical plant, for which work started in 2012 and started picking up pace beginning last year, has taken in a growing number of oil and gas workers from all over the country.
“I took a pay-cut to work in Pengerang. It was either this or nothing at all for me,” said Thilak Jaganathan, a 28-year-old safety inspector.
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November 28, 2015
Dateline 2015-10-16, tankterminals.com:
Malaysia’s Pengerang Independent Terminals, jointly owned by storage operator Vopak and Dialog Group, received its first very large crude carrier shipment of clean products on Thursday, Vopak said.
The tanker MT Yuan Qiu Hu, which can carry 270,000 tonnes of clean oil products, was chartered by oil trader Trafigura to load gasoil at Pengerang, industry sources said.
The tanker left Yeosu, South Korea on Sept. 26 and arrived at Pengerang on Thursday, Reuters ship tracking data showed. It is likely heading to West Africa, traders and shipbrokers said, although this could not be confirmed.
While the Pengerang terminal – which started operations in March – has received hundreds of vessels of various sizes offering both clean oil products and crude oil, this is the largest shipment for clean oil products, Vopak said.
Located in the southern state of Johor, just across the Johor Strait from the Singapore trading hub, the Pengerang site can hold about 1.3 million cubic metres (cbm) of storage for crude oil and oil products.
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August 23, 2015
Why isn’t Abang Yazid a Datuk yet?
Dateline 2015-07-07, The Borneo Post:
The Petroleum Resources Corporation (MPRC) has applauded Platts’ recent move to approve four terminals in southern Malaysia as part of the free-on-board (FOB) Straits oil benchmark pricing which is the process of price assessment for refined oil products.
The four terminals are Pasir Gudang, Tanjung Langsat, Pengerang and Tanjung Bin.
In a statement yesterday, MPRC said with the FOB Straits, market participants would have broader options for loading terminals from which to meet an approved FOB Straits bid.
“As a result, all market participants will benefit from a more efficient market with more transparent price discovery,” it said.
Platts is a global energy, petrochemicals and metals information provider with a premier source of benchmark price reference.
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June 19, 2015
As if this is new news.
Dateline 2015-05-18, ST:
Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas company Petronas is delaying the start-up of its huge RAPID refining and petrochemical complex in the southern state of Johor until mid-2019, back from early that year, its top executive said on Monday.
“For the refinery, the start up will be middle of 2019. That is the current schedule,” President and Group Chief Executive Officer Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin said on the sidelines of the Asia Oil and Gas Conference in Kuala Lumpur.
All of the engineering, procurement and construction contracts have been awarded for the refinery, while the petrochemical plant is still being tendered, he said.
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June 6, 2015
Now, will this go the way of Vung Tau, or will this have a sleazy bordertown feel? Look at Kerteh for inspiration.
Dateline 2015-04-29, New Straits Times:
A hotel and commercial area for entrepreneurs utilising compact containers as their structures will make their debut in Pengerang by the end of the year.
The joint venture between Perisind Samudra Sdn Bhd and PIJ Holdings Sdn Bhd is part of the upcoming Pengerang Oil and Gas City project.
Among other things, it will comprise 400 units of the Lakeview Terrace hotel, which offers premium accommodation for the growing work force in Pengerang.
Perisind Samudra chief executive officer Mohd Shafiee Mohd Sanip said there was a big demand for accommodation from workers in multinational companies who were now involved in the development of the oil and gas hub in Pengerang.
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