The Putera heights inferno. Our Fukushima? Tales by an unknown blogger. 82

1. Our hearts go out to victims of the towering inferno. The Malaysian Fukushima.

2. To those who survived the loss of loved ones, those injured and to those who have all kinds of property destroyed by the putera heights inferno.

3. I wanted to stay quiet about the inferno. Alas some idiotic and insensitive statements from PETRONAS make me want to speak out.

4. Hey you, PETRONAS cibais, some of us have actual experience in managing oil and gas installations and depot's la. Your statements insult us and a slur to the victims of the inferno.

5. Our first priority is to put out the and contain further damages. Then to do all that is humanly possible to comfort the victims' grief.

6. The agong gave a personal donation, the government pledges financial help and various organizations helped out giving services, food and shelter. Grief is race blind and so is humanitarian help.

7. But I don't see the PETRONAS CEO, the installation people and the PETRONAS contractors who made tons of money from PETRONAS chipping in .

8. I didn't see westar, rockstar or whatever, pipeline suppliers, vendors and ship operators helping out .

9. What happened in putera heights should give us justifiable reasons to retire most of these people.

10. Up till today, we haven't seen the presence of the PETRONAS CEO, the engineering operations manager, the materials manager, the installation manager , the operation superintendent etc. Mana dia olang?

11. Or are they lounging at the petroleum club, feted at nobu or probably holed up at wisma ehsan( the building owned by the late tun daim)'sequestered by sprm where a floor has been turned into a private mess?

12. If they think because they are malays and entitled to be preferentially treated, go f themselves.

13. The 1st statement issued by PETRONAS (its public affairs people are idiots or what) was the explosion at putera heights is isolated .

14. Pray tell, isolated in what sense? In the sense of frequency , maybe

15. Apart from the putera heights inferno, were there any other incidents that were unreported? The eagerness to say it's isolated suggests there were others that maybe unreported. The explosion at putera heights was too severe to shield from public knowledge like possible other incidents.

16 . But its certainly not isolated in terms of the damage done. The death, injury and destruction of properties involved. These are not confined.

17. Therefore, to say its isolated is both insensitive and not thought of carefully by PETRONAS. Insensitive to the victims of the explosion.

18. If I were the PETRONAS boss, I would restructure its communications department. Maybe change its director.

19. That's how an institution which is enjoying an almost monopolistic stature( legislated by the government) behaves. Hubristic and cocky .

20. Then there was the pompous and haughty claim , that our security standards are very strict .

21. On paper maybe but in the field it's a different story. There must have been serious security breaches for the explosion to take place .

22. If reports about a buried excavator are true, then by logical extension , there must have been serious security breaches and lapses of attention for the explosion and the ensuing explosion to take place.

23. That would negate the pompous claim that" our security standards are water tight", wouldn't it?

24. I cannot say much about PETRONASs decision to call off it's hari raya do. I do think it's a proper thing to do

25. Except the speed at which to decide to cancel it , is a bit disappointing. It's typical of the PETRONAS look down attitude on its contactors and ordinary people. It's as though we all owe it a living. If not for public knowledge and sorrow about the explosion, probably PETRONAS ball will go on.

26. Perhaps after this incident, we should apply our own anti trust laws on people like PETRONAS, ltat, tabung Haji, felda, risda , mas, khazanah, EPF and so on. Government induces some competition. I would.

27. Incident of this magnitude must be the result of human error, defective equipment and fittings, unsafe working conditions,



serious breaches of security protocols, unsupervised 3rd party jobs etc.

28. These should be looked into instead of being sidetracked into overgeneralizing about the buried ass scratcher(excavator).

29. That may have nothing to do with the explosion. It's impossible that while the fire was ravaging, some people got time to bury an excavator.

30. Not unless, exploding the pipeline was a premeditated event .

31. When was the last safety audit carried out? Were the periodic safety audits at all?

32. Were the fittings checked? The pipeline, the weldings , the flanges, valves, pressure relief valves, thickness of pipelines, gas detectors, pressure drops etc .

33. Were the fittings of standard ratings? Maybe pipelines are of substandard? Check on the purchasing department in charge .

34. Have there been simulated emergency drills carried out?

35. Were safety protocols strictly followed ? Contractors using no flammable tools, no smoking , proper clothing etc

36. Are contractors work supervised or overseen by engineering superintendents?

37. Invigilate these instead of giving respectability to journalistic speculations

38. Like giving credence to fairy tales of the explosion being caused by force majeure. Ada masjid India type of sinkholes, erosion, thunder, contact workers pissing on pipelines?

39. After all these, see whether the people of putera heights can initiate a class action against PETRONAS to relocate. After a few heads must roll la.

Article 83. All the president's men. 84.Duds in the government.