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If you want to learn:

• How to determine pressure drop, wall thickness and optimize line size for gas, liquid and two-phase flow
• How to apply to your piping and pipeline system international design codes / standards such as ASME/ANSI B31.3, ASME / ANSI B31.4, ASME ANSI B31.8, ASME Section VIII, Division 1 & 2, ANSI B16.5, API RP 14E, API RP 14C and API RP 14J, API RP 520 Part 1 & 2, API 521, API 526, API 2000, API 1104 and NACE MR-01-75
• How to select the appropriate ANSI / API pressure/temperature ratings for pipe flanges, valves and fittings
• How to analyze piping systems so as to determine piping “spec breaks”
• How to design and analyze new and existing piping systems for expansion, supports, pumping, compression, manifolds, pigging and insulation requirements

Here is the course information:

Title: Plant Piping and Pipeline Systems

Instructor: Dr. Maurice Stewart P.E., CSP

                        Author of Facility Piping and Pipeline Systems  

For information please contact LDI Training by:

Email: LDITrain@singnet.com.sg

Website #1: http://www.lditraining.com

Website #2: https://oilandgascourses.org

 

 

If you want to learn:

• The surface production facilities for handling produced oil and water
• The oil/water/gas separation process and equipment
• The emulsion and oil treating process and equipment
• The water treatment process and equipment
• Filtration and types of filters
• Oil and water metering and types of meters
• The important parameters in designing, selecting, specifying, operating and trouble-shooting these oil and water processing facilities
• How to operate, size, specify, maintain, test and trouble-shoot surface equipment such as separators, heater treaters, wash tanks, gun-barrels, storage tanks, pumps, ACT units and produced water disposal and injection equipment

Here is the course information:

Title: Oil and Water Handling and Processing

Instructor: Dr. Maurice Stewart P.E., CSP

Course Materials  

A copy of the newly revised 2nd Edition of Volume 1 of the widely acclaimed “Surface Production Operations: Design of Oil Handling Facilities,” written by Ken Arnold and Dr. Maurice Stewart. This textbook continues to be the standard for industry, and has been used by thousands since its first printing over fifteen years ago, plus:

• A comprehensive set of lecture notes for after course reading and reference
• An extensive set of practical in-class “case study” exercises specifically developed by Dr. Stewart that emphasizes the design and “trouble-shooting” pitfalls often encountered in the industry. The suitability and applicability of the case studies is recognized as one of the best in the industry.

For information please contact LDI Training.

Email: LDITrain@singnet.com.sg

Website: https://oilandgascourses.org

 

 

 

Here are 8 tips on living a successful life:

1. See failure as a beginning, not an end.

2. If you don’t go after it, you won’t have it.

3. Always do more than is expected of you.

4. Assume nothing, question everything.

5. Make peace with your past, or you’ll pay for it.

6. Stop thinking so much, start doing it.

7. Never compare yourself to others.

8. Teach others what you know.

Jamin Djuang, May 6, 2017

1. Bakken Shale oil is name after the Bakken Formation, a series of geological layers of shale, siltstone, and sandstone underlying parts of North Dakota, eastern Montana, and southern Saskatchewan. The 360-million-year old formation is up to two miles below the surface, but is itself very thin, generally less than 100 feet.

2. Bakken Formation holds huge amount of oil and gas. In the entire Bakken Total Petroleum System, which includes another rock layer called Three Forks, the USGS estimates that there are 7.4 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil. In addition to the oil, the formation contains 6.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

3. The oil contained in the Bakken is not easy to extract due to the low permeability of the rocks and the thinness of the deposits. To stimulate production, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing are used to create pathways for the oil to flow from the tight rocks into the well bore.

4. Crude oil production surged from 100,000 barrels a day in 2007 to more than 1.1 million barrels a day in 2014. Current production is about 1 million barrels per day.

5. Thousands of wells have been drilled since 2007. Currently the number of wells is around 13,500.

6. Crude oil from the Bakken Formation is more volatile than many other forms of crude oil.

7. The number of active rigs in the state’s oil patch was 39 in February 2017. It increased to 51 in April 2017 – an 18 percent increase since February.

8. According to Platts analytical data, breakeven prices in the Bakken shale play fell to $33.53 a barrel in April 2017, from $37.91 a barrel in the same month last year. According to Arthur Berman, 10% of the reduction is due to advancement in technology and 90% is due to lower costs in equipment and services.

By Jamin Djuang, April 22, 2017

Sources: Articles by Frederic Beaudry, Irina Slav, Arthur Berman, USGS

Conflict is defined as a situation where your concerns or desires differ from another person’s.

People tend to have a preferred conflict resolution style, but may use different methods in different conflict situation. Therefore, it is important that you realize the styles you use in resolving various conflicts you face.

Here are the common 5 styles people use in resolving conflicts.

1. Avoiding Style

In this style, you are unassertive and your approach is uncooperative. You probably feel neither your personal goals nor the relationship with the other person is important.

You probably adopt this avoiding style when there is no urgency to resolve the situation.

Results: No win No win

2. Accommodating Style

In this style, you are cooperative yet your approach is unassertive. You probably give in to maintain the relationship with the other person, but your personal goals are sacrificed.

You probably adopt this style because you want to preserve harmony and avoid disruption.

Results: Small win Small win

3. Compromising Style

This is a cooperative approach. In this style, you value your personal goals and your relationships with the other party. Here you are willing to give and try to get concessions from the other party.

You probably use this style when you and the other person have equal power and you want to achieve temporary settlement for complex issues.

Results: Medium win Medium win

4. Competing Style

This is an uncooperative approach. In this style, you seek to achieve your personal goals at the expense of the relationship with the other person.

You probably use this style because a quick and decisive action is vital, or when you feel you must get what you want.

Results: Win Lose

5. Collaborating Style

This is an assertive and cooperative approach. Here you and your counterpart both try to resolve the conflict by open and direct communication.

In this style, you and your counterpart want to achieve a win-win outcome and desire to maintain good relationships with each other.

Results: Win Win

So, are you an avoider, accommodator, compromiser, competitor or collaborator?

It is important that you understand these 5 styles. By knowing the consequences of each style, you will be able to apply these strategies in different conflict situations to achieve the results you want.

Jamin Djuang

16 April 2017

The Asia Excellence, one of six new LNG vessels in Chevron Shipping’s fleet, delivered the first cargo of LNG from the Gorgon Project to foundation customer Chubu Electric in Japan in 2016.

“Natural gas is truly becoming a globally traded commodity, and the future is bullish for liquefied natural gas (LNG),” according to Mike Wirth, Chevron vice chairman and executive vice president of Midstream and Development. With LNG demand projected to grow by roughly two-thirds over the next decade, he says, “It’s an exciting time to be a part of this industry.”

“Asia alone will be responsible for nearly 50 percent of expected global LNG demand growth over the next decade.”

Read the complete article here.

 

Getting accepted into top universities is extremely competitive. With admission rates of 5.4% at Harvard University, 4.8% at Stanford and 3% at NUS of Singapore, your natural chances of getting into them is very low. However, there are ways you can do to improve your chances of getting into one of them. Here are the 8 insider tips which you can do to enhance your chances:

1. You have higher chances if you apply to top universities outside your country. For examples, the chances of a foreigner to get into Harvard are higher than American citizens with similar academic credentials. Top universities highly value diversity and they want their student body be represented by students from many different countries. INSEAD, currently ranked number one MBA program in the world, has students from 93 countries. Read this recent article from Harvard University.

2. You must have a passionate story on why you want to get into the university you are applying to. Here you can express your genuine interest in the university and the subject you like to pursue. This is where you can show your unique self.

3. Select the right people to write and send your recommendation letters. You should carefully select people in good standing who sincerely value you and want to help you. It will really help if that person is an alumnus of the university you are applying to.

4. Learn and practice the art of making presentations or answering questions during interviews.

5. Obtain high GPA from your previous school or college. It will be even better if you take courses that are of great substance such as higher level math and higher level English.

6. Achieve high scores on your aptitude tests such as TOEFL, SAT, GRE or GMAT. Taking prep courses will improve your test scores. You can repeat taking the tests until you are satisfied with your scores.

7. You should involve in extra-curricular activities or work as a volunteer during school years. Some students even work as volunteers for one year right after high school before applying to universities.

8. You can engage a coach who specializes in university admission. There are now many admissions coaches who specialize in helping students to get into top universities.

Jamin Djuang

5 April 2017

Here are the 9 habits of highly successful people according to survey done by Tom Corley author of “Change Your Habits, Change Your Life”:

1. They get up early
2. They read, a lot
3. They spend 15 to 30 minutes each day on focused thinking
4. They make exercise a priority
5. They spend time with people who inspire them
6. They pursue their own goals
7. They get enough sleep
8. They have multiple incomes
9. They avoid time-wasters

You can read the full article here.

This is a HPHT subsea tree used at Chevron’s Alder Field in the North Sea. It is called a vertical monobore tree. The system allows the Alder team to safely control production from the high pressure and high temperature Alder reservoir lies 14500 feet below seabed and manage any fluids injected into the well using an umbilical.

This is the hybrid umbilical, merging two technologies – steel tubing and thermoplastic hosing – used by Chevron to provide reliable and efficient subsea conduit to relay power, fluids and communications between the subsea equipment and the platform at Alder field.

Here is the video on the Alder subsea system.

Here is your formula to move up fast in your career ladder….

KNOWLEDGE + SKILLS = COMPETENCY

COMPETENCY + EXECUTION = JOB SUCCESS

JOB SUCCESS + THE RIGHT MINDSET = CAREER SUCCESS

The right mindset is the x-factor of successful people. X-factors are what make you unique and stand out among your peers. Companies pay notices to people with x-factors. Top universities around the world, in selecting their future students, also are now looking at the x-factors of their applicants. Good grades are now not enough to get into the top universities.

So, how do you discover the right mindset at your workplace? Here is the formula…

You should spend time with people in your company who are well regarded by co-workers and by your company. By knowing them well and learning their attitude, beliefs and communication style, you will discover the mindset that make them successful. You can then adopt and adapt this mindset to yours. In management coaching, this process is called modelling.

Here is an article on mindset.

Written by Jamin Djuang

This iron ore is from an iron mine in Western Australia. High quality iron ores consist of mostly magnetite and hematite minerals, and their iron content can be as high as 70%. Magnetite and hematite are two different types of iron oxide.

The chemical composition of magnetite is Fe3O4 and hematite is Fe2O3. Smelting is used to extract iron from iron oxide. In this process, the powdered iron ore is mixed with carbon. Under intense heat, the carbon will remove the oxygen from the iron oxide. So, in the natural rusting process, iron is oxidized into iron oxide and in the smelting process the iron oxide is reduced into iron.

Written by Jamin Djuang