Anyone know what Deleum Primera do? They're hiring too..

what is the requirement for offshore safety boots?

no shoe lace? with zip?

high neck design?

going to buy 1

depending on platform. for PCSB high cut & no lace. zip is optional. some platform requires lace. company is supposed to provide, unless u gatal n wanna buy yourself.

looking for freelance job. just prepare.

Does anyone know how to break into oil n gas without prior working experience?

depending on platform. for PCSB high cut & no lace. zip is optional. some platform requires lace. company is supposed to provide, unless u gatal n wanna buy yourself.

haha well the company i work for will not provide.

So no more PP102 & PP103?

Better position for UMW NAGAs to secure local contracts..

http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/1338074...erisai-jack-ups

So no more PP102 & PP103?

Better position for UMW NAGAs to secure local contracts..

http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/1338074...erisai-jack-ups

Lack of competition from locals lead to non competitive bid. Local PSCs are under the mercy of the company which monopolies the local market. A perfect example; ask REPSOL which had a bad deal for Kinabalu drilling contract. REPSOL had a fairer deal for Pakma drilling contract because the bid was opened to foreign bidders.

PETRONAS screamed to its PSCs to look for cost reductions, but this call was conveniently ignored for bidding of drilling rigs.

Sarawak to set up own oil company amid ongoing talks with Petronas

PETALING JAYA: The Sarawak state government is going ahead with plans to set up its own oil exploration company called Petroleum Sarawak (Petros), which will be wholly owned by the state, despite the low oil price environment.

However, it is unclear how this will impact the activities of national oil company, Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas), which has long operated in Sarawak, where it garners the bulk of its Malaysian revenue from gas fields there.

Petronas president and group chief executive officer Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin had said recently that he welcomes any involvement by state government entities in the oil and gas (O&G) business, but it has to be within the Petroleum Development Act (PDA).


“We have a strong relationship with the Sarawak government, as such, we welcome its participation in the O&G industry.
“But we also have regulations in place, of which under the PDA, Petronas is the custodian and manager of the O&G resources in Malaysia,” he told reporters at a briefing on Petronas’ mid-year results recently.

Wan Zulkiflee added that the partnership with Petros could be similar to other Petronas partnerships, either as service providers or as a partner under the production sharing contract (PSC).

“Discussions are ongoing with the Sarawak state government,” he said when asked about the potential partnership between Petronas and Petros.

Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg officially announced last month the formation of Petros, with a target for the company to be operational in the first quarter of next year.

“The formation of Petros is an unprecedented step taken by the state government to enable Sarawak to actively participate in the extraction of oil and gas in Sarawak while still pursuing its request for a 20% royalty from Petronas,” he said.

However, there has been no clear indication on whether Petros is going to be a partnering with Petronas or carry its own oil extraction activities.

Petros is currently head-hunting a chief executive officer and other key management positions to start operation by the first quarter next year, according to a Bernama report.

There has been growing dissatisfaction in the Sabah and Sarawak governments over the years on oil royalties, despite the fact that the bulk of Petronas’ hydrocarbons are derived from the two states.

Sabah and Sarawak currently receive royalties of some 5% from Petronas for O&G revenues.

Sabah and Sarawak have also been looking to have a bigger say in the decisions made by Petronas when it comes to its activities in those states.

This has led to appointments of two board members in Petronas last year, namely Sarawak state secretary Tan Sri Amar Mohamad Morshidi Abdul Ghani and Datuk Hassanel Mohd Tahir (permanent secretary in the Sabah government’s finance ministry) to represent Sarawak and Sabah.

Sarawak, which has been especially vocal on the issue of higher oil royalty, had also issued a moratorium on all new applications for work permits of Petronas personnel from outside Sarawak last year.

It was reported that the state government’s decision was prompted by complaints from Sarawakian Petronas officers whose services were terminated or who were retrenched.

Petronas is currently developing the Sabah-Sarawak Integrated O&G project to harness the O&G resources in the offshore areas of Sabah and Sarawak.

Besides the development of the new oil and gas fields off the coast of Sabah, namely, Gumusut and Kakap, Kinabalu Deep and East, Kebabangan and Malikai, the project consists of two onshore developments - the Sabah O&G Terminal (SOGT) and the Sabah-Sarawak Gas Pipeline (SSGP).

The 500-km SSGP will transport gas from the SOGT in Kimanis to Bintulu for processing into liquefied natural gas (LNG) at the Petronas LNG Complex for export.
The pipeline system also has provisions for future domestic consumption in Sabah and Sarawak.

The SOGT will receive, store and export crude oil as well as receive, process, compress and transport the gas produced from the fields offshore Sabah.

Covering an area of about 250 acres, the SOGT will have capacity to handle up to 300,000 barrels of crude oil per day and one billion std cu ft of gas per day.

The new terminal will complement the operations of the existing Sabah Gas Terminal, the Labuan Crude Oil Terminal and the Labuan Gas Terminal, which will continue to handle the oil and gas produced from other fields off the shores of Sabah.

Thyssenkrupp : wins major fertilizer plant order in Brunei
09/01/2017 | 10:31am
 

Thyssenkrupp has received a new order from the state-owned Brunei Fertilizer Industries for the design, procurement and construction (EPC) of a new fertilizer production facility.

The deal was signed on August 26, 2017 and is expected to become effective later this year. The new greenfield fertilizer complex will have a production capacity of 2,200 tons of ammonia and 3,900 tons of urea per day.

It will be located in the Sungai Liang Industrial Park right next to Bruneis well established oil and gas industry.

Peter Feldhaus, chief executive officer of the Industrial Solutions business area of thyssenkrupp: We are proud to work together with Brunei Fertilizer Industries to support the countrys transformation into a diversified industrial economy.

Being selected to develop this lighthouse project is an important milestone for our fertilizer plant business. This major order will further strengthen our market position and growth in the Asia Pacific region.

Brunei is among the largest producers and exporters of natural gas in the world. The new plant project will support the governments long-term development strategy to diversify the countrys economy.

Being one of the key investment sectors, the development of downstream activities in the petrochemical industry will help to better utilize the main economic resources available: oil and gas.

Dato Bahrin Abdullah, chairman of Brunei Fertilizer Industries: We have chosen thyssenkrupp for our investment project as the company combines vast experience in engineering, procurement and construction with proven and cost-efficient fertilizer production technology ensuring highest environmental standards.

Together, we will help accelerating the nations economic growth in a sustainable way and expanding the employment opportunities for its people.

The fully integrated, state-of-the-art fertilizer complex will comprise an ammonia plant with a daily capacity of 2,200 metric tons as well as a urea plant and a urea granulation plant both with a capacity of 3,900 tons per day.

After planned completion in 2021, the plant will use parts of Bruneis large natural gas reserves as feedstock to produce high-quality nitrogen fertilizer mainly for the export market. Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth and therefore a key agricultural input.

Thyssenkrupps scope of supply for this fertilizer complex will include the engineering, supply of equipment, erection as well as supervision of construction and commissioning as well as various offsite and related utility systems.

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Unaoil: Dark secrets of Asian powers

Asian companies such as Hyundai, Samsung, Sinopec and Petronas are household names. But they have dark secrets. In the latest in Fairfax Media and The Huffington Post’s global bribery expose, these firms and more are implicated for paying kickbacks, money laundering and corruption.
Richard Baker, Michael Bachelard, Daniel Quinlan and Nick McKenzie

As Asian companies expand their global power and influence, the Monaco-based bribe factory Unaoil has been quick to sign them up to its corrupt business model.

A trove of leaked emails from inside Unaoil show it working closely with Malaysia’s national oil company Petronas, as well as South Korean titans Hyundai and Samsung, and even the Chinese government giant Sinopec. The oil industry’s biggest ever scandal has also exposed Asian conglomerates Yokogawa of Japan, South Korea’s ISU, Singapore’s Keppel and Malaysian firm Ranhill.

The emails show some Asian executives are enthusiastic participants in graft, underscoring the pervasive culture of corruption across the region. It’s an alarming proposition as Asian companies develop into some of the most powerful and influential players in global business.

The massive leak of files from Unaoil this week has already sparked investigations by the US Department of Justice, the FBI, Britain’s National Crime Agency and other authorities.

Today, we reveal how Unaoil’s corrupt dealings with its multinational clients has also infected the fast-growing African oil industry.
South Korean giants in Libya and Algeria

Thousands of leaked files reveal that managers inside South Korean conglomerates paid millions of dollars in commissions to Unaoil, which funded corruption to win major contracts in Libya and Algeria.

In one email, Korean ISU vice president Joon Lee, writing from a private address, urged Unaoil to bring cash to a meeting to pay a senior Libyan government official who could help ISU win a construction contract.

"You are requested to come to see him as you told me at a hotel… I suggest to you with around 20,000 Eruo [euro] at this visit,” the email to Unaoil said.

At the time, Joon Lee was not only ordering pay-offs, but pocketing his own bribes. He set up his own offshore company, the Monaco based Sun Holder, into which he agreed to receive kickbacks from Unaoil. In return he passed on confidential information he had received and also ensured the company he worked for, ISU, kept paying Unaoil as its agent. Joon Lee could not be contacted.

The leaked files also reveal that a senior Samsung manager, in cahoots with executives from Hyundai and Hanwha, agreed to pay bribes worth millions of dollars to rig oil-refinery contracts in Algeria.
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Unaoil engineered the corrupt deals. The two South Korean companies conspired to share the $1.8 billion contracts between them, even though they were apparently competing.

Stuart K. Steele, an executive from a third company, Spanish multinational Tecnicas Reunidas, was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars via offshore accounts. The cash ensured the Spanish company ran dead in the three-way bidding contest: a manoeuvre described in the emails as a “tripartite agreement”.

“I understand your friend [from Tecnicas Reunidas] is not comfortable, if his name is specified in the agreement,” an email to Unaoil from a senior Samsung executive said.

“Your obligation shall be to maintain three commercial bids to be submitted and to have the contract awarded to any bidder from our place [South Korea]”.

Unaoil also sought to bribe officials from Algeria’s state-owned oil company Sonatrach.
Malaysian millions: Petronas and Ranhill

Oil for many countries is by far the biggest game in town. Many struggling oil-producing nations hire international companies to manage their fields, hoping this will deliver the best value for their people.

The Iraqi government was hoping for such a result when it appointed the Malaysian government-owned oil company Petronas to help manage huge oil fields in Iraq’s south in 2010.

Then Unaoil stepped in. Unaoil had a client that wanted to secure a large contract Petronas was overseeing. So Unaoil bribed Petronas executives to rig the contract. Unaoil’s client was British oil services firm Petrofac.

Leaked emails reveal that Unaoil agreed to pay millions of dollars to a Malaysian middle man who claimed he could influence a top Petronas’ executive and other Malaysian officials in 2010. “I’ll make [an] arrangement for us to see Mr [Petronas executive] when I’m in Dubai,” middle man Affandi Yusuf wrote to Unaoil.

“As you are aware the situation is very sensitive at the moment. I’ll have to meet Mr [Petronas executive] personally to make him comfortable to meet up with your team.”

In a later email from Affandi, the middleman claims that, in return for the bribes, his corrupt Petronas contacts had “fed us” inside information from a tender committee. This ensured that Unaoil’s client Petrofac qualified for a large contract.

“They have lived up to their obligation to get PF [Petrofac] qualified technically. According to them, PF would have been initially technically disqualified,” Affandi wrote in an email in which he demanded money.

Petrofac responded that it did not condone bribery in any of its operations.

And so it went. In Libya, Malaysian company Ranhill offered Unaoil $40 million to convince senior Libyan officials to award it a large housing construction contract. The leaked emails reveal Ranhill approached Unaoil after former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad had failed to convince Colonel Gaddafi to help.

Unaoil succeeded where Mahathir had failed. Unaoil paid a high ranking Libyan official, Mustafa Zarti, to assist Ranhill. The leaked files also suggest Unaoil promised a $200,000 personal kickback to a Ranhill executive if he helped Unaoil extract large commissions from the Malaysian company.

U naoil also paid up to $2 million (along with further payments for a rug and a collection of fine wines) into offshore accounts to two mysterious Algerian middle men, Tewfic Guerbato and Omar Habour. It appears these payments were made to increase Unaoil’s influence inside Petronas and other Asian firms.
Snaring the dragons: Unaoil in China

And then there was China. As Chinese multinationals rapidly evolved into major oil industry players, Unaoil keenly sought their business.

In 2010, Unaoil agreed to become the agent for a subsidiary of the Chinese government-controlled behemoth Sinopec. Under the deal, Unaoil would pocket 5 per cent of the value of any contract it won for the Chinese firm.

But there was a catch. A senior manager from Sinopec subsidiary ZPEB asked for a personal kickback from Unaoil for signing the consultancy agreement.

The manager “is a player,” wrote Unaoil’s Steve Hunter to his bosses in Monaco, “and asked initially for 2% to cover all the ZPEB players, then over the 3 days [they] agreed to 1%”.

“We will have to honour this if we want to go further. From these 3 days it became clear that the Chinese have personal agendas. [The manager] told me [they are paying bribes to] ... ZPEB man.“

The corrupt senior manager is described as having powerful family connections in Sinopec, and “full access” to senior officials – access the manager used to help Western companies.

The corrupt manager “has registered a company in US and is active agent for other Chinese business”.

Unaoil’s Chinese ventures began in 2003, when the company teamed up with an Asian businessman called [Mr] Wang. Wang promised Unaoil access to China’s most influential officials in return for large payments.

“[Wang] does have some access to Sinopec … and says that he has clear access to the Deputy Prime Minister, the Deputy President, and, if he wants, the ‘Emperor’ – ie. Jang Zei Ming … who is the real power still in China despite giving up the Presidency,” wrote Unaoil employee Peter Willimont in an internal briefing.

“As our deal stands with him now, it is 50/50 with him taking care of his end and us doing our bit.”
Singapore's Keppel and Japan's Yokogawa

Japan and Singapore are considered among the least corrupt – and least corruptible – countries in Asia. But Unaoil’s tentacles extend to multinational oil service firms in both countries.

The leaked files reveal that Unaoil was paying bribes in Kazakhstan to help Singaporean conglomerate Keppel win contracts.

A confidential 2007 Unaoil memo details its plans to help Keppel win offshore oil rig and barge contracts on the massive Kashagan oil field. Unaoil regarded Keppel as an ideal client because Keppel had lax anti-corruption controls compared with Unaoil’s other multinational clients. Unaoil also believed Keppel had its own connections to allegedly corrupt Kazakh government officials.

“In my opinion we have a lot at stake here, apart from the $30m [in fees from Keppel] – we could set-up a long term association with these guys [Keppel].... The problems of working with a US or European outfit do not apply here,” a Unaoil executive wrote in a 2007 memo.

The leaked emails provide specific details of just how helpful Unaoil was to Keppel. In 2006, when Keppel was competing with French multinational Technip to win a contract to build an offshore oil rig in Kazakhstan, Unaoil used a corrupt contact codenamed “small D” to leak inside information on bidding strategy. “Small D” appears to be an Italian oil executive working with the Kazakhstan government.

“Please ask small D what does [he] understand [about the bid]… currently offered by the French,” said one email.

“Any news from little D on the outcome of the T [Technip] mtg [meeting]?? -- I need to go back to [Keppel senior manager],” Unaoil’s Kazakhstan manager Peter Willimont wrote in yet another message.

In Japan, meanwhile, the Tokyo based electrical engineering and software giant Yokogawa had also hopped into bed with Unaoil.

Leaked emails from 2006 reveal Unaoil paying middlemen to reveal confidential information on the tender strategies of Yokogawa’s competitors in the middle east – information that Unaoil then fed to Yokogawa.

“I just had the Japs on the phone [looking for information]”, a Unaoil manager wrote to a middleman who was leaking them information in 2006.

“Y[okogawa] France wants to visit us here next week if we have the info to review,” the manager wrote in another email.

Yokogawa responded to questions saying they had never working with Unaoil.

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