Threading Plant for OCTG to be built at Salambigar

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Oil Country Tubular Goods

A $32-MILLION facility for an integrated Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) supply and threading plant is set for construction next year following an agreement signed by three parties including Brunei Shell Petroleum Company yesterday.

Signing the agreement with Brunei Shell Petroleum were Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation and Sumitomo Corporation in a ceremony held at The Empire Hotel & Country Club.

OCTG are pipe and tube products used in the petroleum industry, such as drill pipes, pipe casings, and oil pipes.

According to Minister of Energy at the Prime Minister’s Office Yang Berhormat Pehin Datu Singamanteri Col (Rtd) Dato Seri Setia (Dr) Hj Mohammad Yasmin Hj Umar (pictured), who witnessed the signing, 14 hectares have been allocated at Salambigar Industrial site for the threading plant.

He told The Brunei Times that the construction of the plant will begin next year. Operations are expected to begin in 2016.

YB Pehin Dato Hj Mohammad Yasmin also said the agreement was significant as it would make Brunei the “first country in the region to have the technology”.

“I think the key consideration is that they’ve been doing this for the last 40 years...the company (Sumitomo) doesn’t just leave and expand anywhere in the region. But this (the plant in Brunei) is the first one in the region,” he explained.

“This also brings capability to our people. We are creating direct employment of about 150 and 100 will come indirectly from the sub-contractors. So actually we’re not doing just having the facility in Brunei but we are building the Bruneian capacity in terms of technology.”

He said that in the second phase of the project, Brunei may consider exporting the products regionally.

The minister, in his speech during the ceremony, stressed maximising local content in implementing the project.

“The Integrated OCTG Supply and Threading Plant project is such an initiative that will complement the government’s effort on increasing foreign direct investment activities in the oil and gas sector, and in the country. I am also pleased to note that this project will satisfy the government’s local business development policies in the oil and gas sector for an increase in local content and local employment.”

He said that in financing the project, local banks should also be engaged and given the opportunity to participate.

“This would in itself add to the local content component of the project,” said the minister.

The Brunei Times

Sultanate to acquire 3% shale stake

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

STATE-OWNED Petroleum Brunei (PB) will buy a three per cent stake in Malaysia’s Petronas’ shale gas assets in Canada following a meeting between His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Sunday.

Petroleum Brunei is Brunei's 100% government owned (phot from pb.com.bn)

A number of agreements were signed following the 17th Annual Brunei-Malaysia Leaders’ Consultation held in Bandar Seri Begawan, according to a statement from Petronas yesterday.

“Petronas and its Canadian subsidiaries Progress Energy Canada Ltd and Pacific NorthWest LNG Ltd have also signed an agreement with Petroleum Brunei for the latter to acquire a three per cent equity in Progress Energy Canada’s natural gas assets and in the proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG’s export facility. As part of the proposed transaction, Petroleum Brunei has agreed to buy a three (3) per cent share of the LNG facility’s production for a minimum of 20 years,” the statement read.

The Malaysian government-owned oil and gas firm said the agreements, signed on December 8, include a head of agreement (HoA) towards formalising a unitisation arrangement for Malaysia’s Kinabalu West NAG field and Brunei’s Maharajalela North Panel field; A HoA towards a provisional arrangement for joint development of Malaysia’s Gumusut/Kakap field and Brunei’s Geronggong/Jagus-East field; and Two production sharing agreements (PSAs) awarded by Petroleum Brunei to Petronas Carigali Brunei Ltd and Shell Deepwater Borneo Ltd for Brunei’s offshore Blocks N and Q.

Also included in the agreements was a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Sdn Bhd with PB Services Sdn Bhd for a possible joint venture for the provision of engineering and fabrication services.

The HoA to formalise the unitisation arrangement for the Maharajalela North Panel field and Malaysia’s Kinabalu West NAG field “paves the way for the two parties to resolve a number of issues relating to the unitisation and future development of these straddling fields,” Petronas said.

The agreement was signed between Petronas and the National Unitisation Secretariat of Brunei Darussalam, read the statement.

Both parties also signed another HoA to establish joint development parameters for the Gumusut/Kakap and Geronggong/Jagus-East fields based on a provisional production and cost sharing arrangement until a further agreement is reached on the status of the fields, it added.

Meanwhile, PB has also awarded Two PSAs to Petronas Carigali Brunei and Shell Deepwater Borneo the for Blocks N and Q which are located in the eastern shallow water areas offshore Brunei, the statement said.

According to Petronas, the two partners have equal 50:50 equity interests in the two blocks, where Petronas Carigali Brunei is the operator of Block N while Shell Deepwater Brunei operates Block Q.

Meanwhile, an MoU was also signed by Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering, a unit of Petronas’ subsidiary MISC Bhd, with PB Services Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Petroleum Brunei, to explore the possibility of setting up a 30:70 joint venture to provide engineering and fabrication services, said.

“Petronas views the agreements reached with the Brunei petroleum authorities as a positive step forward in strengthening its presence in Brunei and deepening its relationship with its Brunei counterpart for mutual future growth in Brunei, Malaysia and elsewhere,” the statement said.

His Majesty and Najib expressed satisfaction at the signing of the production sharing agreements for Blocks N and Q for the immediate commencement of exploration work between PB and Petronas, according to an earlier report by The Brunei Times.

The series of agreements was signed following the leaders’ instruction at the 16th Annual Leaders’ Consultation to increase cooperation in Blocks N and Q, downstream industries, Sabah and Sarawak, and in third countries.

Both leaders were also pleased with the agreements between PB and Petronas in relation to the acquisition of a participating interest of the North Montney assets of Progress Energy Cooperation Ltd and in the Pacific Northwest shale gas to LNG Project in Canada.

Bilateral trade between Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia increased by 13.9 per in 2012 when total trade amounted to US$757.1 million ($946.53 million), according to a press release issued following the leaders’ consultation on Sunday.

“Malaysia expressed satisfaction with the level of Brunei Darussalam’s investment in Malaysia, particularly through joint ventures in various areas such as infrastructural products, agriculture, oil and gas, and real estate. Brunei Darussalam also welcomed expansion of Malaysia’s investments in Brunei Darussalam, including in oil and gas, financing, insurance, real estate and business services,” the statement read. –Fitri Shahminan

The Brunei Times http://www.bt.com.bn/business-national/2013/12/10/09122013-pb-buy-3-cent-stake-malaysias-petronas-shale-gas-assets-canada

Puppets

"when we have been exploited to become puppets for all drama.Just watch, whisper and feel sad about it. You have no right here..#reality"

We are supposed to be intelligent creature. We study our Diploma, Degree, Master and PhD all the ways from Brunei to United Kingdom, German, France, United State, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many more, but when we were back to the land, we are still the same puppets as before. At first we were very excited to make changes, to tell the truth, to bring justice to this land... but later you become them again- the same puppets. You don't dare to change the traditions...You just watch as it happens...

Photo courtesy of  http://www.qualitytoys.com.au/Images/337/Wizard-of-Oz-Puppets.jpg

Personal Information

Who is the owner of this blog?

Personal Information
 I am 26 years old man. lives in Brunei Muara.

Education background

I graduated from the University of New South Wales Australia in BEng. in Petroleum Engineering in July 2013. In 2009 I pursued my study at the Institut Teknologi Brunei for a year before commencing to the UNSW.

Working experience
I used to work in a Conventional bank (Baiduri Bank) and Islamic Investment Banking- BIBD for a year each.

In 2011, I had 3 months industrial internship with Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP). It was such an interesting learning period for me which provided me with exposure on some real work in the industry.


Post University plan

After completing my Bachelor Degree, I planned to pursue my study to Master level. I was offered a place at the University of Manchester for Msc in Petroleum Geoscience which was supposed to start in September 2013. Unfortunately, I was granted with a Government Scholarship at a later time only- which is  after the due date to accept the offer. Hence, I had to give up the scholarship and focused with my other plan- to become a Petroleum field engineer.

Career paths



Interviews--> Job offers --> Magicball-->Working

Interviews + job offers

September 2013
I had  Shell Recruitment Day (SRD) assessment at the Centrepoint Gadong from 6am to 5pm. There was 3 phases for this interview: role play, Board of Director meeting and technical Interview. I  believed I performed badly for the Role Player part; this was due lack of preparation. I was informed that I will receive the result of the interview 3 weeks after the interview. Unfortunately, 4 weeks after the interview, I still yet to receive the result. I sent an email, unfortunately I received no reply to date. I assumed I failed the SRD and they don't want to hurt my feeling to tell the truth.

October 2013

1) I flied to Kuala Lumpur to have an interview with the Halliburton Cementing Country Manager for Brunei placement. We were welcomed by our driver at KL airport to the BMW ( such a cool feeling and experience).  I (and my friend) received an instant offer to work with the company starting December 2013. Unfortunately, my friend received a better offer from another company so he rejected it. At a later time, I followed his step to reject the offer due to a better offer from well known company.

2) I had an interview with Weatherford- I rejected the offer due to several reasons.


November 2013

1) I had a phone interview and Online English test from Baker Hughes- But received no interest from them afterwards. My friend who received an invitation to the interview told me 6 Field Engineers position was on offered. The 2 days assessment was run in December where 20 candidates was invited out of 200 applicants recieved.
                         
2) I also had an unscheduled phone interview with Schlumberger on the 8th. After passing the phone interview and screening, I was invited for a proper interview with the manager in Kuala Belait on the 11th. It was a tough, informative, interesting and fun interview. I was informed that I passed the interviewed and I received an offer letter 2 days after my interview.

MagicBall

Naah, I didn't use magicball to help me in deciding which offer shall I go for.


To tell the truth, it was a tough decision to choose between Halliburton and Schlumberger. Both are well known oil service companies and both had prons and cons. I actually asked several opinions - mum, siblings, friends besides praying Istikarah- Asking for Allah' guidance. Alhamdulilah, after that I received better feeling which one to pick. I will discuss about this on a separate post.. Insha Allah

Please pray for a success in my career which will give me anjakan paradikma to work for my hereafter more... Ameen...(Same goes to you too)


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Intro Only

Salam and dear all,

I have lost counts how many blogs I actually have. I have been writing in several blogs but all are no longer receiving new updates from me. I used to write using blogger before I moved to Tumblr. But Now I am returning back to blogger.

For the last time, I hope this blog will become my permanent blog after 3 of my blogs-  xtraordinaryblog, petroleum:my perfume, my drink and my food and The Awesomest were not able to last for more than 2 years.

This blog although might focus a lot about the oil industry in Brunei (specifically) but I will include my view on certain social news, religion, humors and might also include some personal opinions, my personal life or any trending topics not limited to social, politics and petroleum.


All the posts below this line  are not new. They were  imported from my previous blogs.

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Lukut-1

Bandar Seri Begawan - The presence of hydrocarbons discovered in Lukut-1, the first exploration well to be drilled under Brunei National Petroleum Company's (PetroleumBRUNEI) Block L, has revealed that there is a high-potential reservoir underneath the onshore exploration field in the Tutong District.

According to www.pennenergy.com, the AED Oil Ltd has confirmed the presence of hydrocarbons in its Lukut-1 wildcat well, which was drilled on onshore Block L in Brunei.
The company said that hole gas measurements made during wireline logging have confirmed the find across a number of intervals.

The well had an original target depth of 2,150m but was deepened to 2,230m to assess a zone of interest.
Lukut-1 also intersected other unpredicted zones of interest at the new total
depth and these are now being evaluated with a view to deepening the well further.

Lukut-1 is the first well to be drilled in Block L since the block was gazetted as a designated area of the national oil company. It's also the first onshore drilling undertaken by Brunei National Petroleum Company since 24 years ago.

AED Oil will move its drilling operation to the second location of Lempuyang in a few days, which is also located in Block L.

On June 2, AED Oil announced that drilling operations at the Lukut-1 well have intersected possible reservoirs.
The Lukut-1 well was spudded on May 2 and is currently within budget and cost estimates. The schedule for completion may vary depending on the outcome of the wire line logging and any subsequent flow testing. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

AED Oil abandons Lempuyang-1 well testing in Brunei Block L

AED Oil has advised that the Lempuyang-1 well testing operations are now complete. Continued mechanical issues resulted in the testing programme being curtailed, due to safety concerns associated with unintended gas flowing into the well from perforations and/or damaged casing. This is believed to be due to failure of the packer in the well and/or damage to the well casing above the packer. As a result, the Lempuyang-1 well will now be plugged and abandoned.

The Block L Joint Venture comprises AED South East Asia Limited (50% operating interest), Kulczyk Oil Ventures (40%) and QAF Brunei (10%).

The Lempuyang-1 well intersected excellent quality reservoir sands, with gas being flowed to surface from two test intervals. Some thin gas sands were interpreted at the lower reservoir test interval (3077-3131.5 mMD – of which 24 metres were perforated). The upper reservoir test interval (2849-2867.5 mMD – of which all 18 metres were perforated) flowed gas to surface before AED was forced to cease testing due to a down hole mechanical failure and as a result no gas flow rates could be established. The gas analysis from the upper reservoir test shows higher levels of C1-C8s and lower CO2 compared to the lower reservoir gas sample (<0.5 mole% compared to approx. 5 mole%).

While the testing results are inconclusive, AED notes that the data obtained supports the Joint Venture’s optimism in relation to the Lempuyang prospect and surrounding acreage. AED has obtained valuable information regarding the onshore geology of Brunei, within an overpressured environment. As such, the Lempuyang-1 drilling and testing results will be integrated and used for future exploration assessment of the updip area within the eastern part of Block L, where 3D seismic is currently being considered. Further appraisal and exploration well locations will be identified for drilling in late 2011.

Further to the Company’s release of 1 April 2011, the Joint Venture currently anticipates that the following exploration activity will occur at Block L in the near term:

1. Seismic acquisition at West Jerudong. The Joint Venture plans to begin shooting 130km2 3D seismic over the Jerudong oil field in Q3 2011. This field was previously produced and was shut-in while still on production without being fully depleted. While the field was originally drilled on surface oil seeps and limited 2D seismic coverage; the Joint Venture intends to acquire 3D seismic to accurately map the known fault blocks and to identify additional potential oil prospects (having regard to current oil prices).
2. A 3D seismic patch (13km2) and 2D seismic line (13km) east of the Lempuyang-1 well will be acquired to confirm potential structural rollover. Depending on results, an extension to the 3D seismic programme of up to 150km2 could be undertaken.

Source: AED Oil