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3rd Steering Committee Meeting of GASEX 2010, 25-26 May at Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Hong Kong 16 Jun 2010 GASEX (a.k.a. Gas Information Exchange for the Western Pacific) held the 3rd Steering Committee Meeting for GASEX 2010 on 25-26 May in Hong Kong.
MGA's 24th Annual General Meeting, Impiana Hotel KLCC, 12 May 2010 14 May 2010 THE 24th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) OF THE MALAYSIAN GAS ASSOCIATION HELD ON WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010 AT THE IMPIANA HOTEL KLCC, KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Gas Association (MGA) held its 24th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 12th May 2010 at the Impiana Hotel KLCC. In conjunction with the AGM, the association hosted a knowledge sharing tea talk for members and affiliates and also a mock cheque presentation event to two charitable bodies prior to the convening of the AGM.
MGA PRESTIGE 2010, 27-28 MARCH, HOTEL EQUATORIAL, MELAKA 30 Mar 2010 - Nurturing a safety culture among Engineering Undergraduates Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) awareness and practice may sometimes be taken for granted in the workplace. Complacency and careless work ethics and practices, can lead to incidents that can disrupt operations and productivity, causing not only monetary loss, environmental pollution but in some cases injury and death. As such it is critical to train young graduates who will soon be entering the job market on the importance of having a HSE mindset.
MGA Tea-Talk : 'Iraqi Petroleum Potential & Opportunities', 25 Feb 2010, MPC 25 Mar 2010 MGA hosted a talk on “Iraqi Petroleum Potential and Opportunities” on 25th February, 2010 at the Malaysian Petroleum Club (MPC), Level 42, Tower 2, PETRONAS Twin Towers. More than 80 members and guests attended this event where Mr Sabah Al Shammery, Chairman of the SAPCO Group and Board Member of the Iraqi Businessmen Union (IBMU) and Mr Amir Kamel, Executive Director, Mrooj Oil Services Company, shared on the business opportunities in Iraqi.

Technical Visit to Gas Plants & Facilities in Bintulu & the Bakun Hydro Dam Project Site, 15-16 December 2009

15 Dec 2009

The Malaysian Gas Association (MGA) organised a technical visit to the Malaysia LNG Sdn Bhd (MLNG), Asean Bintulu Fertilizer Sdn Bhd (ABF), Shell Middle Distillates Synthesis (SMDS) and Murphy Oil Sarawak’s Bintulu Onshore Receiving Facilities (BORF) and the Bakun Hydro Dam Project site on 15 – 16 December 2009. MGA members from AF Document Mgmt Services, Diamond Gas Holdings, Exact Energy, Into Solutions, Mitsui & Co. (Asia Pacific), Muhibbah Engineering, PETRONAS, PETRONAS Gas, Sabah Energy Corp., Totalmas Holding, Transwater, Cekap Technical Services, WGC 2012 Coordination Committee, and MGA Secretariat participated in the technical visit.

This event has been specially organised to provide opportunity for members to have access to onsite firsthand experience in visiting, viewing & gaining knowledge on the overall operations of the gas plant and facilities. The trip to the Bakun Hydro Dam project site is added to expose members to a tour and briefing on this national project before its commissioning by next year.

The group of 24 members of MGA were enlightened with an overview of the operations of the plants and facilities by the respective representatives from the 4 plants at the MLNG auditorium on 15 December 2009. Guided tours around the plant premises were conducted in the afternoon with the respective companies’ representatives giving running commentaries and answers to questions posed by the participants onboard the coach. Murphy Sarawak has extended the visit to BORF with a ‘walking tour’ of the facilities where the group, attired in protective personal equipment (PPE), were taken on foot around
the plant.

All the participants found the visit very beneficial, educational and knowledge enriching with the ‘on-the-spot’ learning and sharing of the overall operations of these plants.

Twenty two of the group members also visited the project site of the Bakun Hydro Dam on 16 December. Despite the long travelling time of nearly 7 ½ hours to and fro from Bintulu to Bakun and the bumpy rides on certain stretches of the journey, the participants were impressed with this mammoth national project and appreciative of the privilege of being able to experience and see the near completion and groundwork of the dam before its official commissioning. The presentation by Mr Ten Wuan Ping, Manager, Sarawak Hidro Sdn Bhd, on the construction and logistics of the dam was indeed very impressive and enlightening.

The technical trip has been well-received by attendees with favorable feedback on its benefits and usefulness for knowledge building and learning experience. There were also calls for more such trips to be organized next year to other plants and places of general interest to the gas and related industries.
On behalf of MGA, we wished to record our thanks and appreciation to the managements of MLNG, ABF, SMDS and Murphy Sarawak for granting of access for the site visits and for the warm hospitality accorded to the participants. Thank you to all the presentators and facilitators for the insightful sharing on the overall plant operations. Special thanks to MLNG for sponsoring the lunch on 15 December and to Mr Rhymie Rashidie of MLNG for coordinating for the presentations and site tours to all the 4 plants. Top