They buying time. Dear jib kor created so much shit in 1MDB.

Hope he and all 1MDB board members die with those debts instead of asking petronas to bail them out.

Most refinery here also shut down. Take advange to change DCS system.

I know is it normal for construction to delay

But what keeps malaysian worried is this 1MDB. Petronas wont be interested in bailing out those fellas. RAPID is giving people jobs even in the future.

If petronas is forced to bail 1MDB chances are we wouldnt see RAPID even take off.

Yeah you are right. Sorry for letting out.

I really hope they do that. RAPID will have long term prospect both job and growth for the country when oil is falling short in exploration. At least until someone can create a new method of drilling high pressure and deeper depth for Tapis.


But by not taking petronas money, the rakyat suffer a lot through lost of EPF money.

Kena bagi MISC lar. They in a lot of pressure to make ends meet.

maaf bang, actually my point was the oil was running short lately. Building a new mega refinery is the future to sustain the future generations of malaysian and the rakyat.

Regarding the Tapis oil. Tapis oil is good oil that have low/no sulphur content, thus there is not much need to so refining at all. These kind of oil you can take and pump straight to the car and it will burn well.

So to elaborate further, there is a reserve at Tapis at deep depth(i cant remember, my dad knew there is oil deeper) that petronas till today still cant drilling that bugger right out of that. What exxon found for petronas was just a vein that links to a big reservoir. The french had tried to drill for pertronas to reach that depth, they drilled for 1 month nonestop but failed due to the technology and pressure was too great for the BOP at that time.

Not too sure if anyone had figure out how to solve that problem till today.

Look at 40 years back for malaysia when oil can be found using 2 parallel pencils(dont believe me? ask any geologist at Petronas and Exxon) at Terrenganu oil fields. Probability of hitting an oil that time are 1/10 at best probability in exploration. Now lets talk about today 1/20 (sometimes 1/30) hits one successful oil field. So yes, oil is running short in malaysia. Gone are the days we get easy oil in malaysia. Show this statement to any geologist and they will tell you is facts for malaysian oil field. I have a powerpoint presentation of the stats of successful oil exploration in malaysia by most majors in malaysia. If not with me it is surely with my dad.

My dad is one of the founders of Tapis fields (worked on multiple oil & gas fields with proven sample taken from the field itself as the reward of his efforts) in ExxonMobil from his 50 years service in the company. Given a golden handshake for the retirement for long term service.

Yes, refinement is needed no doubts, but is a sweet oil which needs very little processing to remove some impurities and fine sand. If you do not take into account the standards of oil quality, you can still use the oil in a car any day. They share the same traits as the Middle oil in terms of age, quality and reservoir porosity. Please do note not all Middle east fields share the same traits.

Please ask before you quote assumptions. There is even proven research on why Tapis oil is almost similar to Middle East, Petronas was smart that they needed to know the reason why sweet oil exist.

This post has been edited by razo2: May 25 2015, 02:22 PM

Tapis is light sweet crude. Low suplhur content (0.04%) which produces full range naphtha (light and heavy), butane, jet kero and high grade diesel. Such crude only need fractionation to obtain their products. Of course they will try to get rid of as much sulphur and H2S in the product. Also fine sand is found in any crude which is not good for engine combustion. But nothing is perfect when it comes to sulphur removal.

The oil produced at Tapis is the same grade in all 4 platforms (platform may have increased for DD, my dad's time no such thing as DD and MWD) due to the fact that they share the same geological faults, age, temperature, porosity and depth. There is a reason why only Tapis had sweet light oil.

Tapis is not found till later in my dad's career. Before Tapis, other oil fields are sour crude and some even have mercury.
Thus, this explains why PD oil refinery had a hydro treater. Hydrocrackers are use to improve the oil performance for petrol.

If things had changed in the Tapis field that I am not aware (I am working overseas btw), my sincere apology for any doubts created, we are here to share knowledge. I am here to share my dad's long life experience in that field.

I am aware that sulphur removal is not perfect. Hence my previous statement "But nothing is perfect when it comes to sulphur removal". Read my previous statement properly.

PD refinery obviously process other Malaysian oil field crude BEFORE Tapis was discovered. Tapis was only discovered only on 1969. No one builds a refinery without a HDS, that is plain stupid as each oil field are different from others when it comes to quality and sulphur content. Assuming PD only refines only Tapis oil (which NEVER HAPPENS), sulphur content will build up (even with the 0.04% sulphur) sulphur will always build up in concentration.

Regardless is good or bad crude, good or bad crude are always stored, in which later it will be blended with other crude to produce the desired products based on market demand.

No oil and gas company will take a crude to be burned staright to a car. That is plain no brainer either.My first statement was just a metaphore of how good the oil is at Tapis is.

What makes you think I dont know anything about refinery? Once again dont assume.

This post has been edited by razo2: May 25 2015, 08:58 PM