Applied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 815

Abstract: Employees are very important to every organization. This study attempts to examine the effectiveness of current human resource management utilization and practices in oil and gas projects in Malaysia, as well as to study the importance of having effective human resource management practices utilization. The human resource management practices namely training and development, performance appraisal, compensation, employee empowerment and ownership as well as work environment are the main practices that has being focused. A questionnaire form has been distributed to the employees of PETRONAS Carigali SDN BHD (PCSB), a leading oil and gas operator in Malaysia including their contractors.

Abstract: The development of the power sector is required to consider not only the environmental factors but also the economic and security factors. Management of electrical energy in Indonesia faced a major problem because of the shortage of energy production demand continues to increase 7.1% annually and the energy production is also very depending on fossil energy sources which dominate 85% of the total power generation. This condition will lead to increasing gas emissions in greenhouse by 78.01 million tons per year. Evaluation of existing plants with a dynamic model of the system will be a consideration for the sustainability of hydropower operation. The simulation results of the Sutami HEPP show more economical and more eco-friendly than fossil energy-based power plant. It is important to build and maintain a HEPP in Indonesia today, due to the potential based on these considerations, the capacity and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Abstract: This paper presents a long-term electricity energy supply-demand model of Timor Island, Indonesia. Implications of projected demand growth within the observed area towards the available supply as well as the amount of CO₂ emission is taken into account. As its main objective is to review and to present initial comparison of the long-term electricity planning prepared by the utility, the analysis is carried out using the bottom-up energy system model. Unlike the common electricity long-term demand projection that is usually constructed based on the factors related to the electricity growth, the model is developed based on the simple projection considering historical electricity demand users. According to the analysis, the planned power plants would not able to meet the elecricity demand in the case of high growth demand scenario. The variation of CO₂ emission that is obtained from the considered scenarios is also shown.