Global green event 'Xperience Efficiency' includes Malaysia

A global event, promoted by energy management specialist, Schneider Electric, shares knowledge on energy and sustainability with governments and companies.

For Malaysia, the event, called Xperience Efficiency 2013 Malaysia will be held in Selangor next week.

Xperience Efficiency 2013 Malaysia is a free event.

Series of the 'green' roadshow began in June with events in the United States, China, Colombia, Brazil, and Russia, will be held at Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre, Selangor, on 24-25 September this year.

Schneider Electric noted that green movement in Malaysia is considered in its infancy, but the focus on sustainability and the drive for corporate social responsibility, is paving its rapid expansion.


"This event is a step taken to inculcate and highlight the value of saving of energy among Malaysians. With the participation of government agencies, businesses and community leaders, Malaysia will be moving in the right direction towards a green environment."
- Peter Cave, President, Schneider Electric Malaysia


The event will show the future of efficiency with solutions that deliver energy management, energy access, and business-process performance answers right across the energy chain.

Participants to the free event will get to experience the followings:

• More than 12 breakout sessions addressing market, industry and solution trends
• Latest developments in systems, solutions, and technology
• Internationally renowned experts from government, business, academia, and industry
• First-hand stories of companies experiencing efficiency today

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Sabah Development Bank ventures into oil & gas

There are ways and means for us to get involved in the oil and gas industry in Malaysia. One of them is by becoming a multi-discipline bank.

The acquisition of an Oil & Gas player, M3nergy, by Sabah Development Bank (SDB) is expected to pave the way for the state to have better participation in the lucrative O&G market.

Recently, SDB acquired M3nergy through a debt for equity swap, and according to Malaysia Oil & Gas, this take over includes Bukit Tua project recently awarded by Petronas.

Corporate structure of SDB: Diversified business including hotel, water treatment and Oil & gas


SDB down to business in O&G immediately

Malaysia’s M3nergy have lined up Singapore’s Keppel Shipyard for the conversion of a floating, production, storage and offloading (FSOP) vessel destined for the Petronas-operated Bukit Tua oil and gas development off Indonesia.

Keppel landed the job after beating other Asian yards including Malaysia Marine Heavy Engineering for the conversion work. Works on the vessel conversion at the Singapore yard is understood to be already ongoing and with cost estimated in access of RM800 million.

Work will take between 20 to 24 months to complete, with delivery from the yard penciled in for the first half of 2014.

The tanker will be converted into a production floater with a design capacity of up to 50,000 barrels per day of liquids and a storage capability of up to 600,000 barrels of products.

Petronas has issued a letter of award to M3nergy for the supply of the FPSO to go on five year fixed term charter, plus options to extend for another two years.

M3nergy receive a significant cash injection after state-owned shareholder, Sabah Development Bank, moved to take over 100% interest in the private-owned FPSO contractor.

The Bukit Tua production floater will be tied to a wellhead platform likely to be fabricated at two separate yards in Indonesia.

Indonesia’s minister of energy and mineral resources, Jero Wacik said last year after a meeting with Petronas’ chief executive, Shamsul Azhar Abbas, production at Bukit Tua will start in October 2014.

TheGreenMechanics: A timely move by Sabah Development Bank. Instead of begging and asking for help from others, it bought its way in literally. Kudos to the management team at SDB!


Reference: partly Malaysia Oil & Gas, and other news blowing in the wind.

What determines the brightness of an energy-saving bulb

Left     : Energy-saving bulb, CFL
Right  : Incandescent bulb (filament)

Energy-saving bulbs, also known as compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) produce light more efficiently than their old incandescent counterparts. CFLs have done away with glowing filaments and instead contain a mixture of argon and mercury vapour.


A small electronic circuit called a ballast produces a rapidly oscillating current passing through the gas. The excited vapour molecules give off ultraviolet light that is converted into visible light by the coating on the inside of the bulb.


What determines it?

Like a conventional lamp, a CFL’s brightness depends on how much power it uses. Manufacturers vary properties like the volume and mix of the gas inside to increase or decrease consumption. For a given light output, CFLs use about a fifth as much power as their incandescent ancestors. As such, the lifetime cost of a CFL is so much lower.

The following table shows the comparison between LED, incandescent and CFLs. The figures are a year old and performance and cost may have since improved.

LED vs. Incandescent vs. CFLs. Source: iconnectdots

Reference: Sciencefocus