I was right to guess that they hit shallow gas pockets while drilling for soil boring. It’s the only logical explanation how the explosion was triggered. The engine room would not have exploded just like that if there had not been a presence of gas.

But I am surprised that they encountered gas at a very shallow depth ie 38m from mud line.

How did they miss the gas pockets when they had done shallow seismic survey prior to the soil boring? I hope they actually did the survey.

Someone will have to pay the price...

This post has been edited by Stamp: Apr 22 2018, 09:26 AM

Imagine if they were driving piles to fix a jacket to the sea bed, and they hit the gas pockets. The cost could be catastrophic to the owner. I don’t think there’s a mechanism to divert gas while driving piles or even conductors!

There could be shallow gas pockets below mud line dear.

One of the objectives of conducting shallow seismic survey is to scan for any shallow gas pockets within 1km depth from mud line. This scan should be done prior to doing any kinds of drilling or pile/conductor driving at that location.

This post has been edited by Stamp: Apr 22 2018, 06:20 PM

selingan.....

If you have been following this thread long enough, you would see that 90% of the discussions in here is about career in oil & gas.

The remainder of the discussions area about affairs related to oil & gas like Brent crude price update, drilling rig activities update, new upcoming projects queries, etc.

Petronas got dragged in GE14.

https://www.malaymail.com/s/1626460/no-more...e-win-star-says

Brent Crude at USD75.48 today, finally breached the USD75 resistance level.

Oil production may be ramped up in order to increase govt revenue when GST is removed.

Will that translate to immediate increase of brownfield activities so that more oil is produced? And greenfield developments are revived?

I hope Hasan Merican plans for immediate oil and gas quick rejuvenation activities in Malaysia!

Brent crude is inching up close to USD 80 today.

Most likely it will stabilise between USD 75 to USD 80?

Sapura recently won the EPC of Penaga CPP floatover, first floatover fabrication for the company. The fabricator is going to be very busy very soon.

when Brent crude is over USD80 and stays above the level for months?

Kasawari. EPCI rebid is ongoing, target award Jan/Feb 2019.

Supply chain management (SCM) was previously known as Procurement. Having said that I think you should be able to guess the differences between supply chain and engineering.

SCM work involves all contracting works and procuring of items (goods and services) required by the organisation for own usage and consumption and for projects.

There’s virtually an SCM dpt in every oil and gas operators and contractors. So there IS a career for an SCM specialist in the oil and gas industry.

This post has been edited by Stamp: Jul 21 2018, 07:13 PM

Vacancies in Petronas.




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Wellcome back bro!

We certainly hope so! Other Operators are watching at Petronas. If Petronas restart field development in a big way, others will follow!

I wonder whether they will use membrane technology similar to REPSOL’s BRE CO2 removal technology for K5.

That one is a CPP, correct?

MMHE will have to slug it out with SAPURA for the EPIC of the new CPP. But bid won’t come out that soon.