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AS234 or Bachelor Of Science (Hons.) Marine Technology programme is the only marine course of its kind to be offered by UiTM. It is a special 3-years comprehensive degree programme which is only offered in UiTM Perlis Campus.

This programme also is in its way to have its own Marine Research Centre which is located in Pulau Tuba, Langkawi. Progression has been made and the the centre is expected to be completed by 2012. Until now, this programme has "voyaged" more than 500 students and 7 highly specialized and well-experienced theoretically and practically full-time lecturers.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

MAJLIS ANUGERAH KECEMERLANGAN AKADEMIK 2009

Majlis Anugerah Kecemerlangan Akademik 2009
will be held as following details:

11 October 2009 (Sunday)

Dewan Besar UiTM Perlis
FORMAL DRESS CODE


This ceremony will be attended and launched by
Professor Dr. Saifollah Abdullah
Dean of Faculty of Applied Science
Universiti Teknologi MARA

This ceremony will be honouring all students who got Dean's Award for
December - April 2009 semester

As far as Faculty Of Applied Science is concerned,
BSc. (Hons.) Marine Technology will combine with
Bsc. (Hons.) Applied Chemistry

and

we do hope with this first time ever combination with students of BSAC
the chemistry between us will be strengthened

---ALL MARINE STUDENTS ARE COMPULSORY TO COME---
THIS CEREMONY WILL BE TREATED THE SAME AS OUR PREVIOUS DINNERS
AND THIS CEREMONY WILL BE FULLY POWERED BY
MARINE TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION



Tuesday, September 8, 2009

8 Fast-Growing, High-Paying Jobs

With the economy shrinking, many job-hunters are looking for a new career that pays well -- and they need to find one that's not going to disappear.

1. Physician's assistant
2. Database administrator
3. Video game designer
4. Medical equipment repair
5. Media planner/buyer
6. X-ray/Imaging technician
7. Plumber
8. Graphic/Web designer

Masdar Eco City Centre, Masdar, United Arab Emirates


Masdar Center design revealed, all about technology. Masdar is a planned city located 17 kilometres from Abu Dhabi. A government initiative, the city is being constructed over seven phases and is due to be completed by 2016. UAE was under developing country which their build a city in the desert. UAE have the unique buildings in the world. Maybe, one day, their want to create an ocean in the desert. Haha. Successful country.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Thursday, September 3, 2009

BP Makes "Giant" Oil Find in Gulf of Mexico

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil major BP Plc said it has made an oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, which analysts believe could contain over 1 billion barrels of recoverable reserves, reaffirming the Gulf's strategic importance to the industry.

BP said in a statement on Wednesday that it had made the "giant" find at its Tiber Prospect in the Keathley Canyon block 102, by drilling one of the deepest wells ever sunk by the industry.

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In this undated photo the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible rig Deepwater Horizon is shown operating in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Transocean)

Further appraisal will be required to ascertain the size of volumes of oil present, but a spokesman said the find should be bigger than its Kaskida discovery which has over 3 billion barrels of oil in place.

Estimates of recoverable reserves range from around 20 percent of oil in place.

"Assuming reserves in place of 4 billion barrels and a 35 percent recovery rate, BP's proven reserves .. would rise by 868 million barrels -- equivalent to 4.8 percent of the group's 18.14 billion barrels of proven reserves," Aymeric De-Villaret, oil analyst at Societe Generale said in a research note.

BP, the biggest oil producer in the U.S. and biggest leaseholder in the Gulf of Mexico, has a 62 percent working interest in the block, while Brazilian state-controlled Petrobras owns 20 percent and U.S. oil major ConocoPhillips owns 18 percent.

Iain Armstrong, analyst at Brewin Dolphin, said the discovery may have implications for long-term oil prices.

"It will ease concerns about peak oil because it shows there is life left in these mature areas," he said, adding that it could be the second half of the next decade before the find is producing.

The discovery also bodes well for other exploration in that part of the Gulf of Mexico, including at Royal Dutch Shell's nearby Great White field, Jason Kenny, oil analyst at ING in Edinburgh, said.

BP shares, which had been trading slightly down ahead of the statement, closed up 4.3 percent at 541 pence, outperforming a 1.75 percent rise in the DJ Stoxx European oil and gas sector index.

The Gulf of Mexico has become increasingly important to Western oil majors as oil rich-countries such as Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Russia reserve their richest fields to be developed by their state-owned oil companies.

The Gulf is especially attractive because it offers high profit margins, due to relatively low taxation compared to countries such as Russia and Nigeria, and because of the low political risk.

As nearer-shore discoveries dry up, companies have pushed further out to sea, which has forced them to develop new technologies to detect and extract the oil.

The prospects for massive discoveries in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico is also good news for U.S. politicians' ambitions to reduce the country's reliance on imported oil, although oil executives doubt the U.S. is capable of becoming self sufficient in oil.

(Reporting by Tom Bergin; Editing by Jon Loades-Carter and Rupert Winchester)

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