The Home Office Environment

Work from Home: The Home Office Environment With the Movement Control Order (MCO) in Malaysia entering its third week, the dedicated men and women in the country continue to fight against the virus while the rest provide essential services. Many companies across the industry continue to conduct business as usual, albeit remotely. Speaking with one...

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Adopting Effective Means for Remote Working

More than a week has passed since the Malaysian government mandated Movement Control Order similar to restrictions imposed by other countries globally, to minimise and control the spread of COVID-19 pandemic throughout the country beginning 18th March. With 2.5 weeks to go (following extension of MCO in Malaysia till mid April), many companies have either...

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Lockdown and the Oil & Gas Industry

Ground Zero At the end of 2019, alarming news of pneumonia by unknown causes was reported. A new strain of coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, the capital city within China’s central region. The virus was called the novel coronavirus or nCoV. The Leap Year Pandemic Fast forward to 11th March 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General,...

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Revolutionising Oil & Gas: Merging Technology and Energy

We have seen major leaps in technology that has helped various industries overcome obstacles and find solutions that have revolutionised the way we work and live. With such significant results being created in industries across the board, what then has been achieve with technology in Oil & Gas? You may have heard of ESRI, the...

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Critical lessons from 6 major oil and gas industry accidents

The oil and gas industry has seen some horrific incidents in its existence. Learning from these incidents help us understand what went wrong as well as figure out what could have been done differently. Table of Contents Toggle 1. Piper Alpha Disaster, North Sea, UK3. Seacrest Drillship Disaster, South China Sea, Thailand4. Ocean Ranger Oil Rig...

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Integrated Risk Management

Integrating risk assessment

The development of a quantitative risk assessment (QRA) study is an important pre-requisite of any oil and gas facility. Thong Wee Jun and Rachael Tee, Senior Engineers with Malaysia-based Synergen, explain why these should be integrated between multiple facilities located in the same industrial area to provide a more accurate representation of risk exposure. Worldwide,...

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