INDUSTRIAL TRAINING PROGRAM REPORT

(3RD AUGUST 2015 18TH DECEMBER 2015)

MUHAMMAD KHAIRUL HAZIQ BIN ABDUL RAMAN

2012765187

COMPANY NAME:
PROFIX ENGINEERING SDN. BHD.

BACHELOR IN ENGINEERING (HONS) OIL AND GAS

FACULTY OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA
SHAH ALAM

Acknowledgement

Bismilllahirrahmanirrahim
First and foremost, I thanks to God because I finally can successfully complete my
internship with a full of colours. I would like to express my greatest gratitude to Oil and
Gas Department, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) for a platform of internship
program that I can relate theoretical knowledge to practical application in real industry.
I would like to expand this gratitude to Profix Engineering Sdn Bhd for giving me an
opportunity to do and complete my internship program in your company and also for a
conducive and comfortable work place. I gained a lot of experiences and improvement
on different skills in many different areas from management to site. Many thanks to my
Supervisor, Sir Amir Ashraf bin Hamzah for valuable knowledges and skills he gave
and his continuous support and guidance. In addition, my thanks also to all workers in
the company for the guidance, encouragement and supportive team
I would also want to thank to Mdm. Effah Yahya and Dr. Hazlina Hussin, the visiting
lecturers during evaluation session at the end of my internship period for their coming
and time spent while having busy schedules. Lastly, a lot of thanks to my family and
friend for their persistent in giving supports, helpful advices and encouragement
throughout my internship period.
Without be forgotten to whom I did not mentioned their name, I also would like to thanks
the support and help either directly or indirectly. Thank you.

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Table of Content

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Acknowledgement
Table of Content
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Introduction
1.1 Objectives of an Internship Program
1.2 Company Background
1.3 Company Services
1.4 Organization Chart of Company

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Gas Engineering Conceptual

2.1 Natural Gas System
2.2 Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) System
2.2.1 Bulk storage
2.2.2 Manifold cylinder

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Tasks, Projects and Activities

3.1 Daily Tasks and Activities
3.2 Project Tasks and Activities
3.2.1 Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Project
3.2.2 Natural Gas (NG) Project

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Conclusion
4.1 Reflection on Gas Executor
4.2 Experiences
4.3 Recommendations

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Appendices
Installation of Natural Gas (NG) System
Natural Gas (NG) Pipeline Protection
Natural Gas (NG) Pipeline Protection (Triple Layer)
Installation on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) System
Inspection on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) System (Soapy Test)
Application to Install (ATI) form
Application to Operate (ATO) form

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1.1

INTRODUCTION

Objectives of an Internship Program

Internship or practical exercise program have been so long become one of important
course in universitys education program. These are the several reasons:

To relate and apply all theoretical knowledge gained in class to practical

exercise

To understand deeply the mechanism of equipment, machines and tools used

in real industry

Learn other new sophisticated and newly equipment, machines, tools and
methods used by particular company

Enhance personals confident physically and mentally when meeting

professionals and clients

Build a strong networking with professionals and executive persons for future

Increase the ability of handling a task with a team work

Strengthen and sharpen the skills that the most requirement of industry in
future

1.2

Company Background

Profix Engineering Sdn. Bhd. was officially incorporated in Malaysia in 14 th October

2011 which is confident to always provide valuable service to the satisfaction of all
clients. This company is a wholly-owned BUMIPUTRA (100%) private company with
many years of experience in supply, install, testing, commissioning and providing
competent engineering services for the clients. Profix Engineering Sdn. Bhd. registered
under Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM), Construction Industry Development
Board Malaysia (CIDB), Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Suruhanjaya Tenaga or Energy
Commission.

The vision is aim to be known as a Bumiputra company with international

standart of work practice and service while the mission of this company is to build a
long-term relationships with their clients because they believe that a business is only
as good as the clients we serves. The key to success is by building relationships that
go beyond one-time projects and provide valueto these clients on a consistent, ongoing
basis.

1.3

Company Services

Profix Engineering Sdn. Bhd. offer several services where the core service is in Natural
Gas (NG) and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) systems. The following is the services
where the company offer to their clients, consist of:

Natural Gas (NG) & Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Systems

EPCC of Internal Piping Reticulation System

Periodic & Emergency Respond of Maintenance for Gas Facilities
Project Management and Consultancy for NG/LPG System
Gas Pipeline Protection Work
Gas Leak Protection System for NG/LPG System
Cathodic Protection System

Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) System

Electrical System
Fire Protection System
Sanitary Plumbing System

External Works

Sewerage System
Drainage System

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Organization Chart of Company

Tuan Haji Hamzah bin

Othman
Chairman
Amir Ashraf bin Hamzah
Managing Director

Haji Rozman bin Abd

Hashim
Business Development
Manager

Maintenance Department

Mohd Amru Addailami bin

Mohd Omar
Operation Manager

Gas Engineering
Department

Nor Amalina binti A

Hamid
Human Resource
Manager

Mechanical & Electrical

Department

Mohd Hidayat bin Ahmad

Site Supervisor
Trainee

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2.1

GAS ENGINEERING CONCEPTUAL

Natural Gas Supply System

In Malaysia, gas is processed after being produced out from the well at Gas Processing
Plant (GPP) at Kertah under Petronas Gas Berhad (PGB). Natural gas is one of the
product being produced that is transferred by pipeline (transmission line) to city gate
station. At city gate station, the gas will be odorised and sale to the customer which is
Gas Malaysia Berhad (GMB). Pressure at this stage is reduced from 1000 psi to 460
psi. Gas is transferred to district station to reduce its pressure to 35-50 psi before being
distributed to service station. At service station, gas pressure is reduced to particular
pressure dependent on the end user either for the industrial, commercial or residential.
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Figure 2.1 shows natural gas supply system specifically in Malaysia. Profix Engineering
Sdn Bhd only involve in pipeline protection and Engineering, Procurement,
Commissioning and Construction (EPCC).

Figure 2.1: Natural Gas (NG) supply system in Malaysia

2.2

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) System

Manifold system is installed when natural gas line is far away to be tapped or for area
with no natural gas being supplied. It is possible to obtain gas from natural gas line for
area where far from the line but the cost will be too high. Thus, LPG system is relatively
better to be installed in term of economic and cost. LPG system can be divided into
two type:
i.

Bulk storage

ii.

Manifold cylinder

2.2.1

Bulk storage

For the use of high pressure and large volume of gas for high combustion such as in
industrial, bulk tank vessel is used to supply desired amount of gas. A truck will filling
up the tank with LPG at filling point instead of using gas cylinder. 1st stage and 2nd
stage regulators are installed in order to reduce the pressure at desired level step by
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step. Emergency shut-off valve (ESV) is also installed for emergency and safety
purposes for any gas leakage detected to be happened. Figure 2.2 shows liquefied
petroleum gas system for bulk tank in detail.

Figure 2.2: Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) - bulk tank

2.2.2

Manifold cylinder

Besides bulk tank, manifold cylinder is often been installed for the use of gas with
pressure between 5 psi to 0.5 psi. Basically, manifold cylinder system is similar to bulk
tank system but gas cylinder is used to replace bulk tank as gas storage. 1 st stage
regulator is necessarily to be installed to reduce the pressure to 5 psi and 2nd stage
regulator is dependable on the appliance or kitchen equipment. It is necessary for low
pressure appliance or equipment (0.5 psi). The number of cylinder used is determined
first due to total consumption. Figure 2.3 shows in detail liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)
system for manifold cylinder.

Figure 2.3: Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) system manifold cylinder

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3.1

TASKS, PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

Daily tasks and activities

In Profix Engineering Sdn Bhd, I have be given a chance to hold a position as Gas
Executive which that my responsibility is to assist engineers work and sometimes work
at site to coordinate with site supervisor to ensure the project is under appropriate
progress. During early of internship, I was being introduced to the company
background and services, learnt about the gas system, given the project to study and
went to site for learning process. Basically in every morning, all staff will be have a
meeting for 30 minutes to report the current status of all project to Operation Manager
and Managing Director. The current status will be written on the white board for
everyones reference.
After the meeting, everyone will do their own works either continue on previous
tasks or new task. Before going to meet client or main contractor, a phone call is
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necessary to inform the attendance to them for ensure the meeting is applicable or not
and easier for them and us to planning and arrange daily schedule. A morning meeting
is good in order to planning daily tasks to do for the works productivity and progress.
In addition, it also can strengthen a bond with all the colleagues and top management.
In every morning, I and other colleagues have to call Suruhanjaya Tenaga or Energy
Commission to obtain the status for projects application that the company proposed.
This is because before the site work can be started for a new project, a company must
have to submit Application to Install (ATI) form to propose the project with own design.
Sample of ATI form is attached in Appendices section.
Besides that, after a project is done for installation and testing, a company again
need to submit Application to Operate (ATO) form to Suruhanjaya Tenaga to inform
the finish work for particular project and for obtaining a permission to authorize and
operate the equipment installed with gas. These are following standard requirement of
Suruhanjaya Tenaga as the highest authority in Malaysia. The status of submission for
ATI and ATO forms is need to know every morning.
5S housekeeping is compulsory for every person in the company to ensure the
work place is always reach comfortable condition and surrounding. Even though, the
clean timetable was made, every person need to clean their own place before leaving
the office. All the used equipment and tools are placed at the store room in proper way
and condition.

3.2

Project Tasks and Activities

3.2.1

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Project

I have involved in many project for LPG system instead of NG system since
most of the project obtained by the company is for LPG system. For a new LPG project,
I have to do site visit for foremost to look at the real condition instead of looking at the
drawing given by the client and gas pipe route is designed and showed to Managing
Director to ensure the applicable of gas pipe route. A discussion is made with Managing
Director before design in AutoCAD. Safety is the most prior consideration in designing
gas pipe route. After drawing is designed in AutoCAD and ATI form is filled up, together
with several requirement such as companys license, companys competency
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certificate and welders information, will be submitted to Suruhanjaya Tenaga. For

drawing, it consists 4 sheets which are floor plan labelled with HP and/or LP for high
pressure and low pressure respectively, isometric pipe drawing with measurement of
pipe length, isometric pipe drawing with gas detector system and standards and
requirements information.
After the proposal is accepted by Suruhanjaya Tenaga, site work can be start
to install gas pipe and be supervised for every second by site supervisor and
sometimes I also involved to check the work must be parallel with the drawing. The
following is the step of gas pipe installation at site:

i.

Preparation of site work for safe the worker while doing work and other
people in the work place.

ii.

Installation of gas pipe with valves, pressure gauges, solenoid valve, gas
detector, control panel and 2nd stage regulator. (gas detector system is
connected to fire alarm and water system for apartment, condominium and
particular shopping mall, thus not required to install control panel)

iii.

Installation of gas room (LPG system) is required for place which have no
gas room together with auto-changed regulator (ACR) as 1st stage
regulator, pigtail with back check valve and emergency shut-off valve
(ESV).

iv.

Coating the pipe with undercoat paint following the standard by authority as
for corrosion protection.

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Painting the gas pipe with yellow paint colour following the standard by
authority. Yellow pipe will indicates the gas pipe.

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Labelling gas arrow on the pipe and

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Testing and commissioning work to check any gas leakage and also
pressure of gas inside the pipe and the gas leaks mock-up incident to
ensure gas detector system works well.

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Packing all tools, machines and equipment to ensure the place is clean and
safe.

ATO form is filled up and submitted to Suruhanjaya Tenaga to obtain a

permission to operate the gas pipe system with several required attachment sheets.
After the application is accepted, the client is informed directly and sent the copy of
ATO to them and to Gas Malaysia Berhad to get gas meter installation for project which
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that gas supply is under Gas Malaysia Berhad. Otherwise, gas meter is installed by
gas contractor. Inspection work will be doing for every 2 years for commercial and 3
years for residential. Inspection work for LPG piping system, there are few method of
inspection and these are several methods that I learnt and involved to:

i.

Visual inspection: to check gas pipe, valves and fittings for their physical condition
that paint on pipe is not peel off or vanish, pipe is not coated by thick dust, corrosion
on pipe, valves and fittings, pipe bent and they must be well function. Gas leaks
can be first determined by odour.

ii.

Soapy test: soapy water is sprayed to area that has risk to be source of gas leaks
and focusing on valves and fittings. The formation of gas bubble is observed
whereby it indicates the source of gas leaks.

iii.

Gas purging: this is the process whereby the gas within the pipe is purged by an
inert gas i.e. nitrogen prior to final leak testing and reinstatement. A dropping
pressure reading indicates the possibly gas leaks. This method is mostly being
applied to new pipe instalment, pipe extension and replacement of equipment, but
somehow also being applied for inspection work for a whole building (eg.
condominium and shopping mall)

Report is necessary as an evident for the work done to get claim. Pictorial report
will be attached with ATO for new instalment of pipe to be submitted to Suruhanjaya
Tenaga. Otherwise, report containing company background, method statement, worker
list, picture of work, and competency certificate is submitted to clients.

3.2.2

Natural Gas (NG) Project

I have involved in NG pipeline protection and installation of NG service supplied

to commercial and residential. Installation of NG service project, I have involved for a
house and restaurant. For a restaurant, the installation is begin after the gas meter.
For a house, installation begin from main pipeline that need to be tapped and
connected to gas meter and to end point. Overall, the installation of gas pipe after gas
meter is similar to LPG system but the different is NG system do not have to build gas
room (gas storage).

Pipeline protection that I have involved is for two purposes which is the first
project is to protect pipeline that underneath the area for road widen project and for the
construction of a mosque nearby the gas pipeline. Second, pipeline protection of triple
layer for protecting it from work that running around the pipeline and that section where
Telecom Malaysia (TM) cables are crossing above the gas pipeline and also relocating
pipe of water by Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) nearby the gas
pipeline. Thus, triple layer protection is required to be done for avoiding any possible
risk throughout that work is operated.

For the common pipeline protection, the steps are as follow:

i.

Doing pipe locating work to get a confirmation for pipe location and depth by
Gas Malaysia Berhad Technical Team.

ii.

Start excavation work for trenching purpose. Please refer to ATTACHMENT 2

for details.

iii.

Lay coarse sand along the trench as bedding for Precast RC Slab.

iv.

Install Precast RC Slab along the trench side by side.

v.

Backfilling the earth (300mm depth) from Precast RC Slab level.

vi.

Install uPVC Warning Slab along the trench side by side.

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Backfilling the earth to ground level.

viii.

Packing and levelling the earth untill at good condition.

ix.

Work inspection by Gas Malaysia Berhad and Main Contractor for

endorsement.

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Handling over and work done.

For triple layer protection, the steps are:

i.

Cleaning the area around the work section and pipeline surface.

ii.

Measuring the length of pipeline section that need to do protection.

iii.

Cutting the neoprene rubber sheet (thickness: 30mm) to desired measurement.

iv.

Wrapping the pipeline with rubber sheet and black wire tape to tighten the
rubber sheet. Ensure that wrapping is fitted and well wrapped the pipeline.

v.

Repeat step (ii) and (iii) twice for make it triple layer.
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4.1

CONCLUSIONS

Reflection as Gas Executor

Working as a Gas Executor for Profix Engineering Sdn Bhd helped me develop and
learn lots of things. I worked in many areas where I did different work. I described in
the previous section that the tasks and activities that I have worked on are so many. At
early of my internship program period, I learnt the services that the company offer to
the clients and LPG and NG systems by reading reports and book provided by the
company. I have also taken to visit site as approaching to real work and relate the
theoretical knowledge with the practical. At site, site supervisor and operation manager
helped me a lot to the gas system and equipment.
I also learned how to meet client, explain the gas system in professional way
and discuss the duration work. Meeting with client can have a possible problems where
client that I will meet is sometimes can be easily discuss in proper manner and some
of them can be in opposite. After 3 months, I could handle a meeting with any client
since I have to prepare my physical and mental before a meeting.
After a month, I have given the chance to handle few projects and I started
design pipe route drawing and after time by time I had improved my skill using AutoCAD
and recognised all symbols used in gas piping system. At site work, I learned a lot of
practical work and getting myself adaptable work under pressure. In addition, my
knowledge of equipment used and the whole system for LPG and NG improved a lot.
Next, after a few times involved I can handled and supervised site work coordinated
with site supervisor properly. My skills at site work had much improved after through a
5 months internship.
Besides that, I also learned and often took part for management work which is
preparing ATI and ATO forms for application and submitted to Suruhanjaya Tenaga
and also applying work permit from Gas Malaysia Berhad. My networking with the
authorities is getting closely and comfortably. I had improved in writing a formal and
proper report with experienced for more than 5 projects.

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4.2

Experiences

The past months of my internship have been very instructive for me. Profix
Engineering Sdn Bhd has offered me opportunities to learn and develop myself in many
areas. In fact, I gained a lot of experience, especially in gas systems. A lot of tasks and
activities that I have worked in during my internship are familiar with what Im studying
at the moment. I did different works in many areas from management to site. This gave
me the chance to develop multitasking skills for my future work after my education. I
found the most valuable experience is a network since a good network will make people
feel trusted and comfortable to work with. A network at office and site is vital for making
a good team work that eventually the worked can be more effective and productive.
One of experience that will never be forgotten is a talk given in front of over 100
students on topic of Occupational Safety & Health Act at Politeknik Dungun,
Terengganu. In that program I also with my team had conducted a module of Latihan
Dalam Kumpulan (LDK). It can be concluded that I had fun following my 5 months
internship at Profix Engineering Sdn Bhd. I found that I had much improvement in
writing, handling a project, communication, self-confidence, networking, team work and
many more. This experience is preparing me in a number of ways from office to site
works for future.

4.3

Recommendations

For future improvement, these are several recommendations that I suggest:

i.

Oil and Gas Engineering students in UiTM should have a subject of Gas
Engineering which instead of gas processing it will focusing on the NG LPG
system services deeply for industrial, commercial and residential. This can
prepare student who getting an internship at Gas Engineering Company since
the gas demand is becoming increases.

ii.

Internship should be done on the last semester of education that some student
have no opportunity to finish their task for a long period project. Thus, a
company need to pass the project to other worker or hire another worker in
which the company lost time to explain again to them about the project.

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APPENDICES

1.

Installation of Natural Gas Sytem

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Natural Gas Pipeline Protection

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Natural Gas Pipeline Protection (Triple Layer)

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Installation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) System

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Inspection on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) System (Soapy Test)

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Application to Install (ATI) form

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Application to Operate (ATO) form

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