Malaysia starts pumping oil at Gumusut field

September 21, 2012

Dateline 2012-09-12:

Malaysia has started pumping oil from the Gumusut deepwater oilfield offshore Sabah, with an initial output of 10,000 barrels per day (bpd), sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

Gumusut, operated by Royal Dutch Shell and discovered in March 2004, is expected help Malaysia reverse its declining output and boost the country’s oil revenue, but its start up has been dogged by construction delays.

Crude output at Gumusut, located off the eastern state of Sabah in Block J, is expected to reach 25,000 bpd by the end of this year, said the sources, who declined to be identified due to company policy on speaking to the media.

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Petronas Appoints Mohd Anuar Taib As VP And CEO Of Development & Production Division

July 10, 2012

Congratulations, Datuk! Will we be seeing less of you on fb? On another note, did they split up the CEO’s office into sub categories?

Dateline 2012-06-08:

Petronas has appointed Datuk Mohd Anuar Taib as Vice President & Chief Executive Officer of Petronas Development & Production, effective July 1 this year.

The national oil company, in a statement here Friday, said he would head the upstream development and production division of Petronas in Malaysia as well as in 23 countries worldwide.

Mohd Anuar, who is currently the Vice President Malaysia, Upstream International and Chairman of Shell Malaysia, joined Shell in 1990 and will continue to serve Shell until the end of this month. A well engineer by discipline, Mohd Anuar was involved in various technical and business development positions throughout Asia and the United States.

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Shell Malaysia to divest LPG ops to Oman’s National Gas

May 24, 2012

Dateline 2012-05-10:

Shell Malaysia Trading Sdn Bhd (SMTSB) has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Oman’s National Gas Co SAOG (NGC) to divest its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) business in Peninsular Malaysia to the latter at an undisclosed amount.

SMTSB managing director Azman Ismail said the divestment was part of its strategy to concentrate on other businesses and streamlined its downstream business.

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Malaysia’s Petronas Said to Sell Labuan, Penara Oil for June

May 3, 2012

Can some trader tell me why this is important, and how it affects the rakyat? And interpret the ‘said’ as ‘CYA’.

Dateline 2012-04-19:

Petroliam Nasional Bhd., the Malaysian state oil company known as Petronas, sold a cargo of its Penara crude to Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and a shipment of Labuan to Exxon Mobil Corp., said two traders who participate in the market, declining to be identified because the information is confidential.

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Saturday Star 2012-04-28 – Job Opportunities

April 30, 2012

Support me by purchasing my recommendations, or buying through my Amazon store. I need the money to pay for running this site. Corporate level sponsors are encouraged.

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’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here . Also looking for process safety persons, lead piping designer, lead instrument engineer, and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • Shell is looking for people for a mess of people. You can visit www.shell.com/careers and select Job Search & Apply → Malaysia.

May I suggest that readers install the Waze app on their phones? And use it as much as possible? It says its a “a social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road. 100% powered by users, the more you drive, the better it gets. Join the community of drivers in your area today!” It’s definitely getting better for the Klang Valley area, though we need more users from East Malaysia.

Support your local bookshop! Visit Bookalicious at The Summit Subang, good selection of imported books. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and otherologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Maybe I should say that next time I visit them. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

BTW, did I tell you that I am the Secretary of MOGEC?

For those of you who have a healthy skepticism to my industry, these books are for you:

  

Why We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk from an Energy Insider, The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Barbarians of Oil: How the World’s Oil Addiction Threatens Global Prosperity and Four Investments to Protect Your Wealth (Agora Series)

This week’s food promotion is … masak asam pedas. If you find nice places around PJ, let me know. I’ve tried the one across from the PJ State Police Station, and the shop next to Dewan MPSJ in PJ State.

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Shell to sell west Malaysia LPG assets to Oman’s NGC

April 1, 2012

Dateline 2012-03-08:

National Gas Company SAOG (NGC) said today that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Shell Malaysia Trading to purchase the latter’s LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) assets in west Malaysia for an undisclosed sum.

NGC, one of the largest LPG companies in the Middle East, said that its entry into Malaysia was done in partnership with Wan Zulkifle Wan Yusoff, a senior LPG industry professional.

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Petronas And Shell Sign Oil Recovery Deal

January 28, 2012

Someone asked me about definitions, IOR, EOR, secondary oil recovery, tertiary etc. I say, look at Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary.

Dateline 2012-01-19:

Malaysia plans to launch the world’s biggest offshore enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project that will have a positive impact on the country’s oil reserves, Prime Minister Najib Razak said Monday.

The RM38 billion (S$15.5 billion) project is a joint-venture between national oil company Petronas and Shell Malaysia that will last 30 years.

“I am confident that this landmark undertaking will prove another significant milestone, not only for Petronas but for Malaysia’s development as well,” Mr Najib said at the signing of two new production-sharing contracts between Petronas and Shell.

The EOR technology, which will be employed in the Baram Delta and North Sabah fields, will help to boost the recovery efficiency of the oil fields to about 50 per cent and extend the fields’ life to beyond 2040.

If the project is successful, it could lead to the world’s first offshore Alkaline Surfactant Polymer EOR project using horizontal wells. It will also provide additional supplies for the country’s power and industrial needs, and promote organic growth in the oil, gas and energy sector, reported The New Straits Times.

 

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Petronas in talks with oil majors for petchem tie-up

December 29, 2011

Dateline 2011-12-23:

Petronas is in talks with several global oil majors including Shell (RDSa.L) and Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) to develop petrochemical plants within its $20 billion refinery complex in southern Malaysia, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Malaysia’s national oil company is also talking to Japanese firms Itochu Corp (8001.T) and Mitsubishi Corp (8058.T) as well as to Dow Chemical Co (DOW.N) — the largest U.S. chemical maker — as it seeks to tap surging Asian demand and diversify its earnings, the sources told Reuters

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Saturday Star 2011-12-17 – Job Opportunities

December 19, 2011

Support me by purchasing my recommendations, or buying through my Amazon store. I need the money to pay for running this site. Corporate level sponsors are encouraged.

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’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here . Also looking for process safety persons, lead piping designer, lead instrument engineer, and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  •  Shell is looking for people for their Floating LNG Facility. You can visit www.shell.com/careers and select Job Search & Apply → Malaysia.
  • Carigali Hess is has a full page advert. Send your cv here,  with a detailed resume stating references, expected remuneration, contact telephone and email address, before 31st December.
  • BC Petroleum, a JV company comprising of Roc Oil Malaysia and Dialog D&P Sdn Bhd, are looking for people. Send your cv here.
  • Ranhill WorleyParsons has an advert. Visit the website (select ‘Search Jobs’ and select country ‘Malaysia’, or ‘Advanced Job Search’).
  • Murphy is looking for a gaggle of engineers. Apply here, or visit here. When was the last time you saw a .aspx in a published website address?
  • I see that Qatar Petroleum is looking for people to support Dukhan. Apply here or visit the website.
  • Talisman is looking for a Senior Well Intervention Engineer. Apply here, and visit their site.

May I suggest that readers install the Waze app on their phones? And use it as much as possible? It says its a “a social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road. 100% powered by users, the more you drive, the better it gets. Join the community of drivers in your area today!” The more you use it, the better info I get in planning my journey round KL, and hopefully the rest of Malaysia.

If you are fans of classic gaming, support those old time PC classics at Good Oil Games. I wish they had a local setup here. And they just started their Xmas 50% off drive!

Support your local bookshop! Visit Bookalicious at The Summit Subang, good selection of imported books. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and otherologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces

Let’s talk a bit about deepwater books:

  

Deepwater Petroleum Exploration & Production, A Sea in Flames, Disaster on The Horizon

This week’s food recommendation is anything strawberrish from Cameron Highlands. Or from Offshore Bintulu.

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Petronas accelerating efforts to enhance production of oil and gas for M’sia

December 1, 2011

Dateline 2011-11-16:

THE excitement in the oil and gas (O&G) sector just gets better, with oil giants Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) and Royal Dutch Shell plc joining forces to further develop oilfields in Malaysia using the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology.

The duo had last week signed a heads of agreement for two 30-year production-sharing contracts (PSCs), which would entail a total investment of US$12bil (RM37.8bil), for projects using the EOR technology a technique to boost the extraction of crude oil and natural gas from existing fields off Sabah and Sarawak.

Involving four oilfields in the North Sabah area and nine in the Baram Delta off Sarawak, the EOR projects on a combined basis could be the biggest in the world in an offshore environment.

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