Day 28: GPP A ambush!!hehehe

Oraitz....Settled with the outfits, now.. i am ready to ambush the GPP A areas. The one and only question which still inflating in my mind is.... how am going inside the plant...?? With Foot?? Wargh... damn stress if it is gonna be real...

Mr Shafie, approached me and told me that i need to undergo safety class before i could enter the plant area. Thus, One of the HSE officer give a safety briefing to me on whats do's & don't's during my visit inside the plant. Soon after finished, Mr Shafie bring me to the front yard and ....quoted.. " hah.... kita ada kenderaan best utk mask ka dalam"... Hurm.... i guess it must be a petronas rotten pick up which i just saw not far from me. " Kita naek BASIKAL..!!"... " Hah sebelum tu, ambik Pam ni... Pam tayar basikal..."...he added. Hah, WHAT??? A Bicycle?? 

Serious man.... im laughing at myself while pumping the bicycles. They gotta be joking with me.... but it is too late that i knew, they are actually serious on what have they voiced out...hahhahaha. 

Basikal pon basikal lah.......

Once i hopped on the bike, we started our journey to ambush the GPP A plant. Actually, Bicycle is the main transport used by the site workers at the Gas plant. In other perspective it  could be true in terms of the safety awareness. Since we are at the Gas plant, any spark could leads to major damages. Fire could be lid once the 3 combustions factors take place ; Oxygen, fuel and ignition. 

My touring visit to GPP A, was accompanied by Mr Shafie & Mr Azmi Jusoh. They toured me around all the 4 GPP A area. Theres a lot of questions that i have been asking during the visit. Both of them is really helpful and cooperative. You all know what, the design of the plant is really complicated and use a lot of spaces. The pipes was very long, go upside down, turn back and the interesting part is.... everybody is really into their work..  So i guessed,  even the lower levels of workers, have been polished to show and practice professionalism of conduct inside the plant. What a well organisation.........   

Day 27: Plant Visit continues....

The Journey from K.L to Kerteh is around 5 hours..(90 KM/H driving practice).. Hurm.. it is quite tiring plus,the scenery is not like what i expected... i thought, the beauty nature could be perceived along the way there... but, the journey is accompanied by the rubber estate and some parched land... We cant hardly see communities all the way long.. you can imagine how boring it is...

My life of excitement began, when our Kia Citra is actually arrive at Kemaman... Wow.. !! It is quite impressive.. better than other small town that i've known.. We are heading to The AWANA Hotels as Mr Azwanizam is sharing his room with me.. How lucky i am.. hahaha. 

...Back to Work...  Continuing about the apparel, the helmets and goggles harmonizes my appearance under the yellow coated cover all. Mr Azwanizam has assigned one of the chargeman to accompany me touring the GPP A. So...the basic idea... i have been passed to somebody else to bring me inside the plant...

Mr Shafiee provides me with as ear plugs... "Jangan lupa pakai..dalam tu Bising". Hurm... i wonder, is there any metal cutting operation inside the plant which needed me to plugged in my ears with this thing....huemm

Helmets and Goggles

Cover All Outfit

Safety Boots

Since i am a newcomer, the outfits, helmets and boots are all new given to me...hehehe... Actually, it was sponsored by the company. Oraitz.... Im ready to go.....!! hihhiihihi

  

Day 26: Plant Site Visit.... GPP A Kerteh!

Monday!! This the most exciting Monday since I've been training here at PGB. Mr. Azwanizam wants to bring me to visit the Gas Processing Plant (GPP) at Kerteh , Terengganu. Wow!! it is actually my 2nd visit to Terengganu and it is my 1st time trip to Kerteh. I heard, it is also called as kampung PETRONAS since there are numerous of plants under the name of PETRONAS.

For PGB (Petronas Gas Berhad), the plant is only on-land plant which is situated at Kerteh. My first thought before joining PGB, all plants are located in the middle of the sea..Offshore. Hurm.. Obviously, what i imagine is totally wrong.

Lets talk about GPP (Gas Processing Plant). GPP functions is to process the natural gas from the gas fields offshore of the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. There are actually overall 6 plants under PGB which is divided into two   location areas, A and B. So there are 2 plants locations which are GPP A at Kerteh, and GPP B at Paka. My visits is mainly focusing on GPP A. Inside GPP-A, there are 4 plants. and for GPP-B, there are 2 plants. Up to my concern, even though GPP-B only consists of 2 plants, the area of the location is approximately the same as GPP-A area.
 
The difference of GPP-A and GPP-B is only the operation of the plants. The Plants location was highly secured and there are a lot of procedures need to be followed. I have to wear appropriate outfits called "cover all"... a yellow colour of top and bottom attached clothes which a foreman usually wears. To be honest, it looks cool....but, only God knows how hot it is inside.... plus.... i am wearing an office wear, long sleeves and slacks...hahaha... Damn COOL MAN!! hahaha