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Chiyoda Awarded EPC Competition Contract for ExxonMobil's Papua New Guinea LNG Plant
(Source: www.yourprojectnews.com – 17 October 2008)
YOKOHAMA, Japan, Oct 16, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Chiyoda Corporation (TOKYO:6366)(ISIN:JP3528600004) announced the award of an EPC Competition Contract for participation in an EPC design competition of the LNG Plant and associated facilities for an ExxonMobil-operated Papua New Guinea (PNG) Liquefied Natural Gas Project.
Bulk supply of fuel plan progresses
(Source: www.fijidailypost.com – 1 November 2008)
PACIFIC Forum ministers have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that would begin a bulk supply of fuel to the pacific. The plan was endorsed following the signing of the MOU by three Forum island countries at the Forum Economic Ministers’ Meeting in Vanuatu on Wednesday, October 29.
CIPS Examinations hit the South Pacific
CIPSA is happy to announce that it has established another examination centre in the region - the University of South Pacific, Laucala Campus in Suva, Fiji. Candidates in Fiji wishing to study the CIPS Qualifications can now sit their examinations at this venue. These examinations are available to CIPS student members around the world during the third week of May and of November each year.
To book your examination you must submit examination entry forms to CIPS by March or September respectively. These are external examinations, and providing you are one of our registered student members, you can submit your examination enrolment form for either date for as many, or as few, subjects as you wish. The only restriction is the examination timetable itself, which cannot be varied.
Examination fees must be paid with the enrolment form. All details of the examination procedures can be found on http://www.cips.org/membership/australia/education/cipsaexamcentres
This year alone CIPSA has registered around 270 examinations over the May and November examination period across the region.
The CIPS Qualifications
Successful completion of the CIPS Level 6 qualification confers MCIPS. It comprises the CIPS Foundation Diploma in Purchasing and Supply (Level 4), the CIPS Advanced Diploma in Purchasing and Supply (Level 5) and the CIPS Professional Diploma in Purchasing and Supply (Level 6). Each level within the CIPS qualifications is assessed through a series of examinations.
Each level of these qualifications is recognised independently with a separate academic award being given upon successful completion. These awards are then linked or badged with specific membership denominations which identify a membership grade level, which in turn is directly linked to core competencies in procurement job functions.
To find out more about these qualifications and membership grades visit the Education page of the CIPSA website: http://www.cips.org/membership/australia/education
Memoirs of CIPS Fellow, Laurie LeFevre
As you may be aware, I spent many years in Papua New Guinea, and thought it appropriate to share with you some of my experiences during that time.
In October 1963, fresh out of three years on the Papua New Guinea coast (Samarai and Port Moresby), I had one of the most significant experiences of my life – I was transferred to Mount Hagen.
I had a number of roles at Mount Hagen, and one involved procurement. Specifically, I was to assist in managing a contract for the construction of twelve new two-bedroom single quarters. With the town plan in hand I had to walk the new estate with the contractor and mark the allotment and section numbers.
This went well until the footings and stumps were in and it became apparent there was an extra house under construction. How could this be? On a re-count of the allotment numbers with the contractor we found we had actually commenced eleven houses. It taught me one of the unforgettable rules of contract management – stuff happens.
My wife, Pat, and I both spent nearly four years in Mount Hagen. Pat worked in Infant Welfare in the Hagen Sub-Province, and like many of the expats at the time had to learn enough Melpa to be able to communicate with the women in the villages. We later spent two years at Kerowagi.
It is not an exaggeration to say we loved the highlands and the highland people. Years on, I still recall vividly my first meeting with Sir Wamp Wan. Ninji, the last of the great fight leaders, had died only a few weeks before I arrived. Wamp became his successor. He became a dear friend to us all, and it was a great experience nearly forty years later to run into his grandson, Nick Wamp, at Tabubil. Nick had chosen as his name the name of his grandfather. It was a special recognition of Nick’s regard for his grandfather.
Years later I would work as a contracts administration mentor with Ok Tedi Mining Limited at Tabubil. This was not the world of 1963, but the world of 2001. It was a new world, but one that acknowledged its origins. Many of the procurement team were graduates from Australian and Papua New Guinea universities. Competent and capable, many of the Ok Tedi people had moved on to make their mark in a new world. The international resources boom had sucked Ok Tedi-trained people out of Papua New Guinea into a world-wide international labour market. Many Papua New Guineans are now working in the Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Laos, and South America. And I daresay they are giving many other places a shake too.
