Chill lah bro...

despite all negativity and slow down, our Aframax size tanker is at OPL Johor.. Gonna enter Yard very soon for conversion..

Bergading rules

This post has been edited by abgkik: Jun 15 2015, 07:08 PM

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Looking at recruiters and companies preference. It looks like 5yrs...

It's kinda difficult to for a geoscience graduate like me to penetrate in O&G industry this year since both our economy & oil price are plummeting. Any advice guys?

MMHE Clinches $86.3M Contracts for 4 Projects in Malaysia


Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings Berhad (MHB) reported Monday that its wholly owned subsidiary, Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Sdn Bhd (MMHE), has clinched contracts worth $86.3 million (MYR 324 million) which involve offshore structural component fabrication works; hook up and commissioning and related topside construction work for facilities improvement project as well as for marine repair and conversion works in Malaysia.
The first contract is for the fabrication of substructures and bridge for the Baronia CPP-B project located offshore Sarawak. The substructure consists of jacket, piles, appurtenance and relevant auxiliaries and services where MHB will be the subcontractor for Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd. The CPP project is for the Integrated Baram Delta Gas Gathering II (Bardegg II) and Baronia enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project offshore East Malaysia. The total estimated weights of these structural components under MHB’s scope is 10,736 metric tons and are due for load-out and sail-away to the ultimate client being PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PCSB) in March 2017.
For the second contract, MHB has been confirmed as the contractor for PCSB – Facilities Improvement Project Package C: Peninsular Malaysia offshore operations. MHB will provide facilities improvement work that entails hook up and commissioning, major construction such as topside modification, structural and mechanical retrofit and other related works and services. The contract tenure is for two years from June 2015 until June 2017 with the option of a 1-year extension.
The third project is a repair life extension project and dry-docking for two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier vessels for MISC, namely ‘Puteri Intan’ and ‘Puteri Delima’. The scope of work involves reinforcement work, retrofitting and boiler repair among others. Both vessels, each at 73,519 deadweight tonnage, are scheduled to arrive in June and complete by early September this year.
The final contract is the conversion of a vessel into a floating storage offloading (FSO) facility for E.A. Technique (M) Berhad that entails demolition, refurbishment and installation works. The vessel is expected to arrive at the yard in July 2015 and is targeted for sail-away by end June 2016. Upon successful conversion and delivery, the FSO Nautica Bergading will be deployed for a full field development project for the North Malay Basin (NMB).
MHB Managing Director and CEO, Abu Fitri Abdul Jalil said, “We are making good progress in replenishing our work order. MHB has now secured close to $106.6 million (MYR 400 million) worth of projects for the year to-date. We are reasonably optimistic of building up our order book and are actively bidding for a number of sanctioned projects domestically and internationally”.
“The award of these projects is also a reflection of our commitment to project execution and delivery that are critical in the upstream oil and gas sector. MHB continues to place emphasis on quality and cost within our core business segments as part of our ongoing transformation initiatives”, Abu Fitri added.

hhi got jobs for both bergading and baronia..you guys heard any job opening from them? think wanna join d team of tall fair n pretty dudes. huhu
(just disappointed that we didnt get any of their process package eventhough at lower cost instead they sub to their tall fair n pretty colleagues)

Seems nice

Job opening done long time ago for this project man..

Started next week, I will be frequent traveler to MMHE..

from Noble Drilling

Work la...

anyone from here knows the detail job scope of data analyst in oil and gas company? got an interview call last week. btw, i am utm student taking petroleum engineering. is this position related to my course?

perhaps you will want to check out your university subject Well Testing and Formation Evaluation (MWD/LWD).

you had an interview but you have no idea what are the detail job scopes...and you applied for it?

well, it could be...worse? at least it's not data management.

I don't think the position will be directly related to PE. Although petroleum engineering does involve looking at large datasets for several reasons, such as to find trends, justify technical/economic decisions and obtain mathematical approximations, I think that those tasks would be handled by the petroleum engineer themselves rather than being delegated to a "data analyst".

That being said, you would probably still be analyzing data typical of the industry, e.g. if you are handling production data then expect to see data units of MMscf, Mbbl, etc. Worth noting that your familiarity with the industry could also explain why the company would take you in but not for a petroleum engineering position.

So your job scope might lie somewhere in between data analysis done by petroleum engineer's and the mindless keyboard-punching tasks done by technical assistants. Depends on your company too. Large O&G companies especially operators have large PE departments comprising of individuals with very specific roles, in that case your "data analyst" position could indeed be a real data analyst position (and I do hope that is the case).

Disclaimer: the answer above is based on speculation and anecdotal experience; I have not seen a job description for a data analyst in an oil & gas company.

generally, yes i know the job scope of this position but specifically, i have no idea about what this position do mostly in oil and gas company. i just want to know more detail so that i know what to expect since there will be another interview. plus, i googled regarding this position but the results are not so encouraging. so, based on your answer can i say this position will be more or less like reservoir engineer?

thanks for your explanation. i think the company chose me maybe because of my experience during my practical which i handled production data. and yes even i did a research on the internet, there are no job description for a data analyst in oil and gas company. that's why i hope there is someone here that maybe knows about this position or works as data analyst itself could enlighten me on this.

thanks again for the answer. it helped me to know more about this position. if you have further information please let me know so that i would not get 'culture shock'.

Do you think a post grad degree is important/common for reservoir engineers?

Fluid Injection's Role in Man-Made Earthquakes Revealed

Faults can creep due to fluid injection, triggering earthquakes.
Usually small though occasionally damaging earthquakes are a side-effect of industrial processes such as geothermal energy and oil-gas production that involve injecting water underground. But scientists have been unclear about the exact role of fluid injection in triggering these man-made earthquakes.

Now, for the first time, researchers at Caltech and other institutions in the United States and France have observed how fluid injection sets off microearthquakes on a sizable, subterranean fault. The findings could lead to better seismic risk management through improved understanding of fluid flow on faults, while also illuminating the mechanics of natural earthquakes.

"At the moment, a major issue for industry is that there is no established theory to evaluate the seismic hazard associated with fluid injections," says paper coauthor Jean-Philippe Avouac, a professor of geophysics at the University of Cambridge, as well as the Earle C. Anthony Professor of Geology at Caltech, and the former director of Caltech's Tectonics Observatory (now closed), where the research began. "With experiments such as ours, we can build much-needed models that would help assess the possible location, magnitude, and likelihood of earthquakes."

The research, led by Yves Guglielmi, a professor at the European Center for Research and Education in Environmental Geosciences (CEREGE) at Aix-Marseille University in France, appears in the June 12 issue of Science.

Earthquakes typically occur when segments of the earth's crust slip along faults due to the built-up pressure. The best-known faults are those between the continent-sized tectonic plates that compose the earth's crust, such as California's San Andreas fault, the boundary between the Pacific and the North American plates. However, many smaller faults branch off these major faults, extending down to microscopic cracks that exist in most if not all rocks.


Injection of water into the fault zone produces initially slow, creeping slip of the rocks as fluid pumps in. Faster slip sets in over 18 minutes into the experiment, generating seismic waves. The experiment reveals that fluid injection itself does not directly provoke an earthquake. Instead, the induced aseismic slip builds up stress at the edges of the creeping zone of rock, causing the seismic activity. (Credit: Jean-Philippe Avouac and Paul Avouac)
"One of the challenges in my field is to relate deformation of rock on the scale we can simulate in the lab with what we observe in nature, which reflects deformation to scales that are many orders of magnitude larger," says Avouac. "There is a very large gap in scale."

The new study helps to fill that gap. Avouac and his colleagues ran a fluid-injection experiment on a fault running more than a quarter of a mile through limestone. The fault is accessible thanks to its location adjacent to the Laboratoire Souterrain à Bas Bruit (LSBB), a former underground military facility in southeastern France now available to scientists.

The research team drilled a hole into the fault at a depth of about 925 feet. They then lowered a five-foot-long canister outfitted with sensors called the Step-Rate Injection Method for Fracture In-Situ Properties, or SIMFIP, into the hole. The SIMFIP was designed to measure pressure, water flow rate, rock movement, and other key data while suspended in the fault zone.

"The SIMFIP probe opens the way to characterizing fault properties, which are critical for seismic hazard studies and understanding the physics of earthquakes," says paper coauthor Frédéric Cappa, a professor at the Géoazur Earth and Planetary Sciences Laboratory at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France. Cappa, who developed the experiments and models jointly with Guglielmi and Avouac, was a visiting professor at the Tectonics Observatory during the preparation of the study.

"The SIMFIP technology is a breakthrough," says Avouac. "We hope to see this or similar technologies used in the future to study faults in a variety of geological contexts."

After inserting the SIMFIT probe, the researchers injected 250 gallons of water into the fault zone. The SIMFIP recorded an initially slow, creeping slip of the rocks as fluid was pumped in; this type of movement on a fault is referred to as aseismic slip since no measurable microearthquakes occur. As rock on the two sides of the fault separated during this minor movement, however, the rate of water flow into the fault increased dramatically. About 18 minutes into the experiment, the slip rate increased, generating the seismic waves and dozens of measurable microearthquakes.

The experiment revealed that fluid injection itself did not directly provoke an earthquake. Instead, the aseismic slip likely built up stress at the edges of the creeping zone of rock. Eventually, the stress overcame the friction between the rock faces within the fault, triggering earthquakes.

Emily Brodsky, a seismologist at UC Santa Cruz who was not involved with the study, comments that the "close-in observations" in the research "provide the most complete picture of earthquake initiation to date. The transition from silent creeping to earthquakes is rich in this data set and surprisingly well-matched by a very simple model."

The work provides information about seismic hazards related to fluid injection by the oil and gas industry and to power facility installation by geothermal energy companies. Continued study using the SIMFIP also could aid the development of carbon-capture and storage technologies for the underground trapping of carbon dioxide emitted by power stations, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere. Of concern is the potential induction of earthquakes, which could, for example, cause subsurface damage to the carbon reservoirs, leading to leaks.

Finally, Avouac and colleagues suggest that a better understanding of shallow, man-made earthquakes resulting from fluid injection will inform theories of how water at great depths influences faults and their potential to generate large earthquakes.

The paper is entitled "Seismicity triggered by fluid injection-induced aseismic slip." The experimental work was funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) Captage de CO2 through the HPPP-CO2 project and by PACA through the PETRO-PRO project. The rate-and-state fault models for this study were supported by the French Academy of Sciences, the Caltech Tectonics Observatory, and the ANR HYDROSEIS.

Written by Adam Hadhazy
Contact:
Deborah Williams-Hedges
(626) 395-3227
debwms@caltech.edu

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MEO Australia, Brooke Dockyard to Cooperate on E&P Projects in Malaysia


MEO Australia Limited reported Wednesday that the company and Malaysia-based Brooke Dockyard & Engineering Work Corporation (Brooke) today signed an agreement to form a consortium to cooperate to identify and jointly bid on oil and gas exploration and development opportunities within Sarawak and the whole of Malaysia.
Under the agreement, MEO will provide technical assistance and opportunity evaluation assistance to Brooke and in return Brooke will fund the evaluation activities and the exploration component of joint bids for successfully screened opportunities that meet the collective criteria of the partners. For the initial opportunity to be considered under the agreement, Brooke will have a 75 percent participating interest and MEO a 25 percent participating interest.
Brooke will bring strong local Malaysian content to MEO having access to local fabrication and construction capability, for both onshore and offshore facilities.
The parties have also agreed to work together in a suitable framework to develop and operate oil and gas prospects to the mutual benefit of their stakeholders, shareholders, local community and people of Sarawak.


Article Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2015

ahhaa i know whose doing what and who is the client. nama "not"noble enough tho haha .

anyway despite all the outlooks and stuff my comp just started the VSS program hand in hand with retrenchment. both not very nice but as the head honcho of my company said, by end of year rig count on our waters will go further down.

on a more positive note slamat berpuasa to all my brothers and sisters.

There is a lot of stranded gas field across East Malaysia water, prospect of new project is still there hehehehe

Salam Ramadhan mhyug. Despite this downturn, keep your head up dan jangan berputus asa. Saya percaya rezeki itu ada. Don't worry.