Recognised for safety
By Mahari Haji Ismail

LP-97 compressor module now installed on AMPA 9 Compression Platform. The tie-up work and commissioning carried out by MJVI personnel.

MJVI plaque presentation by BSP.

MJVI Sdn Bhd is one of the region's safest companies... and that's official.

The Kuala Belait-based joint venture company, between the Mashhor Group of Companies Sendirian Berhad of Brunei Darussalam and Aberdeen-based Petrofac Facilities Management Ltd in Scotland, has just been awarded a highly coveted plaque in recognition of its safety performance that has resulted in three million manhours being executed without lost time injury (LTI).

It was given by Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) Company Sdn Bhd, who is MJVI's biggest client in the provision of support services.

With a reputation of being the largest operations and maintenance contractor in Southeast Asia, MJVI's scope of services to BSP includes design, procurement, onshore fabrication and offshore installation for topside facilities, maintenance, inspection, vessel supply and management.

At the ceremony at MJVI's project office in Kuala Belait on October 9, 2003, BSP Managing Director Mark Carne presented the plaque to MJVI's Operations Manager John McInnes, witnessed by senior BSP and MJVI officials, including the latter company's General Manager Awang Haji Osman bin Haji Omar.

"The BSP managing director remarked that it was a great pleasure to present this award to MJVI as recognition of their excellent safety performance. Safety is very important to BSP and as such our contractors play a very significant role in BSP's overall safety performance. Well done to everyone concerned in achieving this important milestone."

The plaque reads: "Safety Award Presented to MJVI Sdn Bhd for outstanding safety performance in offshore construction and maintenance services".

The latest award comes 16 years after the Mashhor Group of Companies was awarded a Sword of Honour by the British Safety Council - the world's leading safety body.

It was the first Brunei firm to win the award.

The company's group chairman Malai Haji Hamid bin Malai Haji Mashhor received the Sword of Honour from British member of parliament, Sir Bernard Braine, at a glittering ceremony at the historic Goldsmith's Hall in London.

The Brunei firm was among some 30 companies worldwide awarded the Sword of Honour for that year, alongside 24 British firms as well as those from India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the USA after being chosen from a pool of several hundred applicants.

The Sword of Honour Award was launched to recognise where accident prevention is promoted actively at board level and where modern techniques are used to reduce damage to personnel, plant and machinery.

"The company has always considered safety in the company's work environment among its highest priority", said the MJVI Chairman upon accepting the Sword of Honour.

MJVI's commitment to safety is demonstrated by the fact that it has in place an HSE (Health, Safety and Environmental) Plan which it vigorously upholds and adheres to in order to ensure a safe, healthy and environmentally friendly work place for all MJVI employees and subcontractors (currently MJVI employs a total of nine subcontractors), both onshore and offshore.

"All aspects of HSE require dedication and commitment, good planning and management and above all, respecting and following the procedures that have been laid out", said an MJVI official.

He said the company has to comply with the stringent requirements of its clients when it comes to safety, health and environment. As such regular management audits are carried out by both MJVI internal teams and client management audits covering all MJVI works stations.

"BSP, for example, requires the highest standard of HSE from us", the official said. So much so that it has set eight levels of Health, Safety and Environmental Management System Compliance which in a nutshell come under the heading of Leadership and Commitment; Policy and Strategic Objectives; Organisation, Responsibilities, Resources, Standards and Documentation; Hazards and Effects Management; Planning and Procedures; Implementation and Performance Monitoring; Audit; and Review.

Today MJVI's safety ethos include no-complacency; that all incidents are investigated; success requires safety excellence; and that everyone is responsible - and senior management are ultimately accountable.

Its ultimate goal: No harm to people, plant and environment, whilst at the same time yielding quality productivity/output to the satisfaction of its clients.

MJVI began its Campaign Contract with BSP at the outset of 1998, and in a short period had expended its first one million manhours without LTI, in July of that year.

MJVI has been awarded the highly coveted international accreditation ISO 14001 by the International Standards Organisation, ISO, in November 2002 in recognition of the company implementing its own Environmental Management System for its Onshore Operations in Brunei's Oil and Gas Industry. The company is also accredited to ISO 9002:1994 for the Provision of Project Management and Integrated Engineering, Construction and Maintenance Services to the Energy and Process Industry. In addition, it is now on the way towards obtaining the ISO 9001-2000, which represents an upgraded extension of the ISO 9002-1994.

Currently MJVI is carrying out the AMPA 9 Campaign One or AMCX 090301 - a project involving some 630 MJVI personnel offshore. The campaign is part of Ampa-Fairley Fields Rationalisation Project Phase Two, whereby among the works involved is the installation of two units of 23MW gas turbine driven 2 stage LP (Low Pressure) compressors at AMCP 9. In order to make way for the two new LP compressors, MJVI will be removing 6HP (High Pressure) and one LP compressor.

The LP 96 and 97 were built in Italy by Nuovo Pignone and transported to Brunei Darussalam via Singapore - with the long journey including transporting them into the Belait River by barges reaching their destination at MJVI operations yard in mid-August 2003.

The LP 96 is expected to be running by the end of November 2003 while the LP 97 by the end of December 2003. In the meantime, the compression of gas will continue via the four old LP compressors until the new LP 96 and LP 97 are ready to take over.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin