Jumaat, Ogos 19, 2011

SABAH GLCS SHOULD HELP LOCAL CONTRACTORS, NOT COMPETE WITH THEM IN SECURING OIL & GAS CONTRACTS

Help and not compete with local contractors – association

image KOTA KINABALU August 19, 2011: Government-linked companies (GLCs) should help local contractors, not compete with them in securing oil and gas contracts, said the Sabah Oil and Gas Contractors Association (SOGCA).

“Well-established GLCs should be the ones supporting the local companies and ensure that they can participate more actively in this rapidly growing industry,” said its president, Datuk Iskandar Abdul Malik.

He was met at the briefing session on the International Gas Union (IGU) Malaysian Presidency and World Gas Conference 2012 Kuala Lumpur at Wisma Bandaraya here yesterday.

According to Iskandar, the situation in Sabah’s oil and gas industry is rather chaotic and disorganized as no one seemed to assume the leading role ensuring that locals are benefiting from it.

Instead of everyone jumping in and competing with each other, he said someone should take the lead and help distribute jobs among local companies.

“Everybody is going in with even GLCs like Sabah Energy Corporation, Sedco, Yayasan Sabah and so on, competing with one another and until today we still do not know who is leading the industry.

“But how can we compete with these government-linked companies? They should be the ones supporting us, but they are not supporting us properly. The government should do something about this,” said Iskandar, adding that there was also no clear direction as to where the state oil and gas industry was heading.

He suggested that while Sabah’s GLCs could participate directly in gas and oil projects, they should also act as mediators for smaller companies, by securing jobs to be distributed among local contractors.

He pointed out that without a leading local company acting as an anchor, local contractors were facing difficulties competing with outsiders, who secured most of the jobs with assistance from bigger companies.

He said the bigger firms were just “Ali Baba companies”, who secured and sub-contracted jobs to other companies from their respective state and country first.

“We want one state government-linked company to lead the state oil and gas industry.

“The government should focus on who will lead the state oil and gas industry … because if we are all split here and there, you know what will happen, there will be divide and rule,” he said.

Sabah, he added, already has highly capable agencies that can be appointed to take the role, in particular the Sabah Energy Corporation (SEC).

However, he said SEC, despite having the resources and ability, was not given the chance to do the jobs similar to that given to other bigger companies.

Earlier, Iskandar said SOGCA would take part in the World Gas Conference 2012 in Kuala Lumpur.

He said the conference would provide a great opportunity for SOGCA to present its view on what was needed and required, as well as the local sentiments on the treatment being given to Sabah in the development of the gas and oil industry in the State.

He stressed that the business community in Sabah highly supported the state government’s effort to develop the industry.

However, he said it was important that state and federal leaders understand that what is happening now, where outside companies giving out sub-contracts to outside contractors, would not lead to any transfer of technology to the local people.

Based on the current situation, he said the development of the oil and gas industry would not truly benefit the local people as they become merely sub-contractors and “slaves” to foreign companies.

22 ulasan:

  1. harap GLC dan syarikat tempatan akan saling membantu untuk kemajuan bersama.

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  2. syarikat GLC seharusnya membantu syarikat tematan untuk lebih maju. biarlah kemajuan dinikmati bersama.

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  3. syarikat GLC harus membantu syarikat2 tempatan untuk maju..dan bukannya menenggelamkan mereka..

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  4. Memang patut pun kontraktor tempatan dibantu. Kalau syarikat GLC tak bantu, siapa lagi???

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  5. Harap hal ini diberi perhatian sewajarnya.

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  6. Ya, we should help our own people, why fight them??

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  7. Hope this will not happen again...

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  8. What for competing with them, no use to anyone...

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  9. “Well-established GLCs should be the ones supporting the local companies and ensure that they can participate more actively in this rapidly growing industry,” said its president, Datuk Iskandar Abdul Malik."

    By helping the local to grow big and be competitive to the rapid change environment, think it is a good idea too.

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  10. "Based on the current situation, he said the development of the oil and gas industry would not truly benefit the local people as they become merely sub-contractors and “slaves” to foreign companies."

    Hoping there are more offers given to the local people especially in oil and gas industries. Trains them to be more competitive to cope with the fast change technology.

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  11. "Instead of everyone jumping in and competing with each other, he said someone should take the lead and help distribute jobs among local companies."

    Instead of competing, a good idea is to joint-venture to benefit the local company too.

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  12. Win-win-situation.. Hope the local people can gain more offer and job opportunity when the local company grow big and be able to handle bigger project.

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  13. If there are some good potential and strong background local companies to be given chances to handle some project, Im sure they can grow big and these help to boost the local economy and standard of living.

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  14. Betul, syarikat GLC patut memberi peluang untuk syarikat tempatan bekerjasama dalam projek gas dan minyak.

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  15. Di Sabah pun ada syarikat yang layak, kenapa mereka tidak diberikan kontrak?

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  16. that's is why our local company unable to compete globally, because they are always depend on government assistant to do that.. in Malaysia, there are too many contractors waiting to be given a project.. to satisfy all of them is not as easy as you said..

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  17. “Well-established GLCs should be the ones supporting the local companies and ensure that they can participate more actively in this rapidly growing industry,”

    Helping the local companies by "joint-venture" or "Merging" which I think is a better idea. Both companies also gain benefits and advantages.

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  18. It is a good idea if GLS can offer some local project to the local companies so that they can grow big and gain more experiences to handle huge project in the future.

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  19. Agree to Villager.. Local companies should be more competitive and be able to grow big by his own and to cope with rapid change industries. In order to grow big, the local companies should ready themself to handle project and proven their result.

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  20. How many of the local companies that really GLC can help? Government cant look after every of them. To a certain extent, the local company should stand by his own and be more competitive to cope them self in the fast change environment. Im sure there are some good background local based contractor that qualified to handle some projects, would be great to give chances to provn them self.

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  21. "Sabah, he added, already has highly capable agencies that can be appointed to take the role, in particular the Sabah Energy Corporation (SEC).
    However, he said SEC, despite having the resources and ability, was not given the chance to do the jobs similar to that given to other bigger companies."

    May be is a good idea that the state-government to offer as said SEC to handle some project, with his strong background and ability, may be is time to proven their capability. Hope government can highly consider these and give a chance.

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  22. sebaiknya kontraktor Sabah diberi keutamaan berhubung dengan sebarang kontrak minyak dan gas di Sabah.

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