Saturday Star 2009-12-26 – Job Opportunities

There were no newspapers published (or at least none distributed) last Saturday. Off the top of my head, the current jobs available are:

• Rumour has it that Petrofac is looking for a Project Manager to handle insanely large amounts of money. Jabba should apply.
• Synergy is looking for lead safety engineers, safety specialists, junior and lead process engineers and technical writers. We’re on an expansion drive, people! Visit the Synergy website for contact details. For leads, you need 5 years plus experience in the oil & gas industry. For safety specialist applicants, you need to be well versed in HAZOP, HAZID, QRA, FERA and Formal Safety Assessment. Ah, heck. If you have more than 5 years experience in O&G, apply. If you have less than 5, send a donation to the offshore account, and still get abuse. For juniors, go pick up a copy of Cambridge’s ChemEng syallabus, and go study like the Tripods (all of them) are tomorrow. 

Saturday Star 2009-11-28 – Job Opportunities

First off, 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, you are definitely Cylon fodder.

• My sources: Hess is looking for Senior Mechanical Engineers. Bribe me, and I’ll deign to look at your CVs. Put me in another tax bracket, and I may forward your CVs on.
• Synergy is looking for safety engineers. Visit the Synergy websites (Jakarta and KL) for contact details.
• Talisman is looking fora Mechanical & Piping Eng. Apply here, and visit their site.
• Lundin advertises again! Yes, I purposely put these two items next to each other. If you’re an old time like me, you appreciate the irony. They are looking for a Drilling Manager and 2 Drilling Engineers. What, they plan to give the engineers two sharp sticks, and be quick about it?  Apply here, and visit their site.

I really can’t recommend any food places this week. I’m in Miri, and nothing local catches my attention. For those knowing me, it would mean the places I’ve eaten till now must really be blah. C’mon people, send me your contact details and take me (and my family) out for dinner!

Saturday Star 2009-11-21 – Job Opportunities

Is it me, or was there no recruitment section in The Star? There’s nothing on the ebrowse site. Anyone get a hardcopy of the paper? If so, can you mail it to me I ‘ll cover the domestic mailing costs. Or steal it from the batch of returned papers outside your local 7-11.

• Synergy is looking for safety engineers. Visit the Synergy websites (Jakarta and KL) for contact details.

This week’s food recommendation is Aero Caterering Sdn Bhd based in MAS Complex A SAAS Airport (Subang International Airport for us old timers). They supplied the food for my MRSM Muar ‘84 batch reunion dinner on Saturday night. I don’t think they have a food outlet, but try them out for some Minang food.

The SOGE Story – Food, Glorious Food

Once in a while, we have a makan-makan session in the office. The staff aren’t shown, because watching them eat may be a bit… unsettling.

Saturday Star 2009-11-14 – Job Opportunities

First off, 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, you are definitely Cylon fodder.

• Synergy is looking for safety engineers. Visit the Synergy websites (Jakarta and KL) for contact details.
• Qatar Petroleum is recruiting. Jobs are available for Snr Eng (Electrical) & Lead Eng (Electical). The rest are technician posts. Apply here.
• Nippon Oil Exploration (Malaysia) Ltd (NOEX) asks, “Do you want to be part of a sustainable energy initiative for the future?” If so, there are positions for a Project Manager, Contract Enginer and QA/QC Engineer. Snail mail to Human Resource Section NIPPON OIL EXPLORATION (MALAYSIA) LTD, Lot 1168, 3rd Floor, Wisma Interhill, Miri Waterfront Commercial Centre, 98000 Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia before 18th Dec, 2009.
• Here’s an interesting one. Smith International Inc. is looking for Field Engineers (KL/Labuan based). They say that their ‘D&E unit provides a comprehensive range of products including Well Bore Departure/Rotating Control Device…’ Apply here.
• Another interesting one. Proserv Offshore’s business is focussed on four main areas of expertise: Decommissioning Contractors & Engineers, Abandonment Services, Subsea & Marine Technology, High & Ultra High Pressure Pump services (I guess these aren’t the guys who supply Proserve sampling systems). Looks like this company is coming in on the crest of a boom. They’re looking for a project engineer & operation / project manager. Apply here.

 

Marketing Rounds – Visit to MLNG

As part of Synergy’s ongoing mission to boldly go where no one has gone before, we recently visited MLNG in Bintulu, as guests of MECIP. We thank them for providing us a forum in which to present our talents in providing specialist process support to MECIP’s downstream expertise.

The SOGE Office – Full to the Brim

Another Photosynth view of the office. We’re getting a bit more fuller, and I suppose we have enough money to pay for the rent and the lights. We’d like some more work during these trying times.

Saturday Star 2009-10-10 – Job Opportunities

• Synergy is looking for safety engineers. Visit the Synergy websites (Jakarta and KL) for contact details.
• Saudi Aramco Total is looking for a Quality Specialist, Environment Head, Snr On-Stream Analysers’ Field Technician (awkward title), Central Planning Supervisor, Rot Eqt Senior Specialst, Instr Eng, DCS Eng, Elec Eng, ECS Eng, Rot Eqt Eng. Apply to Melorita.
• Carigali Hess is looking for a Reservoir Engineer, Petroleum Engineer. Email to mselvamaithan@carigalihess.com, indicating position applied for as subject of the email. Now you wonder, did Wata supply the right titles?
• Nippon Oil Exploration (Malaysia) Ltd (NOEX) asks, “Do you want to be part of a sustainable energy initiative for the future?” If so, there’s a position of Manager, HR  & Admin open. Snail mail to Human Resource Section NIPPON OIL EXPLORATION (MALAYSIA) LTD, Lot 1168, 3rd Floor, Wisma Interhill, Miri Waterfront Commercial Centre, 98000 Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia before the 20th.

My eating recommendation for the week will be Restoran Tong Juan Seafood. For those who have ever worked in the O&G industry on the East Coast of Malaysia would have gone there sometime, usual after thinking ‘Where is there to eat around here?’ Of course, you would also have visited Hai Peng as well

Saturday Star 2009-09-26 – Job Opportunities

First of all, let me say Selamat Hari Raya Eidul Adha Fitri, maaf zahir dan batin, and happy holidays (you can tell I’m a 1Malaysia Malaysian, right?).

• Synergy is looking for safety engineers. Visit the Synergy websites (Jakarta and KL) for contact details.
• Murphy is looking for people with the right fit. I hope they don’t mean they are looking for ‘V’ type body shapes, that’s blatant discrimination against us unfit types (I’m more of an ‘A’ shape). Let’s see, they are looking for snr reservoir eng, metering tech, petroleum engineer. Apply here.
• And if nothing grabs your fancy, KFC is conducting a set of walk-in interviews for Assistant Restaurant Manager Trainee. Hey, they have a clear promotion structure, hourly rates and great food.

Operator Training Simulators – Intro and Marketing

Here’s a little something that I wrote,

you might want to play it note for note…

Enough 80s already.

Operator Training Simulators

Operator Training Simulators (OTS) train operators on fundamental plant operations and improve their ability to optimize plant performance with the same simulation tool. OTS mirrors the exact look and feel of a plant, captures operator best practices, provides a standardized, level training ground to evaluate operator performance and enables operators to exercise best practices.

Sample - Condensate Stabilizer OTS

The model is capable of simulating the following operations:

• Start-up operations
• Normal steady-state operations
• Normal shutdown operations
• Emergency shutdown operations.

In addition to the above operations, the system is capable of simulating operations dictated by process disturbances and equipment failures introduced by the instructor.

The core element of any training simulator system is the simulation model of the plant unit operations and process controls. The UniSim system provides the ability to construct simulation model without computer programming knowledge by providing a library of building block modules used for simulating the behavior of devices such as pumps, columns, heat exchangers, valves, compressors, vessels and DCS control points. Major equipment types vary significantly from one plant to another. This variability is not generally in the overall functionality of the equipment, but in specific details such as geometry, configuration details, piping, service, etc. This variability greatly affects the operation of the equipment and hence the dynamic simulation of that operation.

Honeywell USO

The approach used in the UniSim system is to model the operation of such equipment using modules that are more fundamental. These modules contain a mathematical engineering model (based on first principles of chemical engineering) of the equipment type including heat, material and momentum balances, thermodynamic and operating equations, both algebraic and differential. Each equipment types can be further defined using equipment parameters that customise the module to reflect the actual operating and physical characteristics of the device.

The Instructor Station (I/S) is the control center of the simulator. The I/S allows access to the simulator’s special features, which do not exist at the actual site. These include:

• RUN, FREEZE and RESUME execution of the process model and control system representation in a completely time synchronized manner.
• SAVE and RESTORE model states for future retrieval.
• EXECUTE the model FASTER or SLOWER than real time.
• Introduce malfunctions.
• Initiate scenarios.

The I/S interface also lets the instructor monitor the progress of the training session with lists and trends of process and control system variables.

Honeywell USO