Mohamad Rosni Othman

University of Malaysia, Terengganu | umt · Department of Maritime Management

Purpose The maritime industry, a linchpin of global trade, has embarked on a transformative journey catalysed by the relentless advance of digitalisation. There is a discernible gap in the literature concerning the specific consequences of digitalisation within the maritime sector. This research aims to examine the current body of literature on the...

Malaysian fisheries industry has dynamic and competitive development and it is not obtained without the support and sacrifices by fishermen as a backbone of this sector. This study was carried out to assess the occupational safety and health hazards of fishermen in Pontian Besar, Johor. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the current stat...

The objective of the study is to measure and analyze the dimensions of institutional excellence and its impact on the mental image of business organizations, and the study population consisted of employees in Jordanian banks located in the city of Madaba, and to achieve the objective of this study, a questionnaire was designed and distributed to a...

This study aims to measure and analyse the impact of strategic capabilities on institutional excellence in Islamic banks, where the study population consisted of workers in Islamic banks located in the city of Madaba. Of the workers in Islamic banks, the researcher retrieved (107) questionnaires with a recovery rate of (87%), all of which were vali...

Port State Control (PSC) is a critical inspection mechanism used to regulate and remove substandard foreign ships in national ports, with the aim of ensuring compliance with safety and pollution regulations to prevent threats to the environment. With the heavy and concentrated traffic volumes at ports, executing efficient and effective PSC inspecti...

The purpose of the study is to test the impact of implementing ISO 26000 on service quality and examine the mediating role of information and communication technology (ICT) of the humanitarian organization; the International Rescue Committee (IRC). This study has two types of objectives; theoretical and practical objectives that aim to clarify and...

The revolution in maritime trade has caused some changes in maritime subdivisions which create an unavoidable bonding or relationship between seaports and dry ports. The seaport will facilitate and support the dry port activities, while the dry port provides a competitive advantage to the seaport. Owing to the continuous turbulence in the maritime...

Background: This paper explores the concept of regional development by utilising the benefits generated by seaports. The east coast of peninsular Malaysia is the focus region of this research because of the imbalance of regional development compared to the west coast. Integration amongst multimodal transportation, freight corridors, seaports and tr...

Trade plays an important role in economic growth. Thence, a smooth cross-border transaction between Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore provides a significant implication in international trade. Currently, cross-border transactions face several issues during the crossing of borders between countries and, specifically, happens during the transactions of car...

This paper explores the transport connectivity and capacity issues, implication and strategies that need to be considered by the Malaysian seaport system to effectively exploit the benefits associated with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Further, the paper recommends appropriate strategies to address the apparent operational and capacity shortc...

Changes in supply chain are critical for Malaysia’s inclusion in the competitiveness in this era of globalisation. One of the prevalent infrastructure developments is the addition of dry ports in remote areas, targeted to enhance the hubs and connection with significant seaports worldwide. However, the regional development especially on the east-co...

The recreational seaport industry carries out many critical functions, including transport circulation, logistics, commercial, and spatial ones. They influence local economic growth and determine the quality of recreational seaport. However, the definition of recreational seaport quality has remained elusive among the community, at present. Hence,...

Changes in trading and supply chain have proven to be critical for the inclusion of Malaysia in the global supply chain and for it to stay competitive in this era of globalisation. One of the more prevalent infrastructure developments is the addition of dry ports in remote areas, targeted to enhance the hubs and their connection with significant se...

Malaysian seaports face challenges of capacity utilisation due to unbalanced regional economic development. Additionally, the resulting challenge from mega shipping alliances may have effects on Malaysian seaports' competitiveness in the Southeast Asia region. To improve the existing space capacity, infrastructure and connectivity, seaports have mo...

Johor Port and Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) are two adjacent seaports act as backbone of the Malaysian international trade and economy. The probability of these seaports catering the same client is very high and may cause overlapping in the hinterland area. This will further result in the waste of resources, congestion in traffic and reducing the...

A comprehensive maritime policy that can be effectively monitored to achieve a multi lateral agreement amongst South China Sea LME countries is imperative. South China Sea LME areas comprise multifaceted ecosystems and are rich with marine biodiversity. It became the largest aquarium in the world due to her strategic location and unique natural oce...

Seaport industry is a dynamic industry and it plays an important role in the current global commerce business. However, in the current trading system, the definition of "seaport quality" is vague among seaport operators and their users. The definition must be very clear to these two different communities in order to improve the sustainability of th...

Sustainability is hinged on innovation. The importance of sustainable innovation management in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) cannot be underestimated. Studies on SSCM have emphasised the need for sustainable innovation in achieving sustainability but none provides deep insights into sustainable innovation management in SSCM implementat...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the prospects of Malaysian seaports as hubs for seaport tourism. This symbiosis nexus between seaports and tourism needs to be explored to provide a luxury economic growth. Combinations of these two segments are expected to explore a new market in Malaysian tourism industry. Design/methodology/approa...

The importance of financial management in organisations especially Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is undeniable. It determines the company's achievement and performance. The Accounting Information System (AIS) plays an important role in establishing a good financial management. Maritime industry is a high-tech industry and is a significant contrib...

Good financial management will ensure improved performance of a company, especially a small company and so the company can compete and survive in their respective industries. Maritime industry as a high-tech industry has a significant contribution to our economy can be regarded as an imperative scope. Small Medium Enterprise (SME) mostly collapse d...

In late 1950's, the beginning of container revolution has started a new paradigm shift in maritime industry worldwide. This new paradigm has become a major reason for seaport systems to prepare their physical capacity, space availability, multi-modalism, transport connectivity via regionalisation. However, in early 2010's the introduction of indust...

Good financial management will ensure improved performance of a company, especially a small company and so the company can compete and survive in their respective industries. Maritime industry as a high-tech industry has a significant contribution to our economy can be regarded as an imperative scope. Small Medium Enterprise (SME) mostly collapse d...

The English language is the lingua franca of the maritime industry. Known as Maritime English, it emphasises on effective communication and safety of operations as its core learning objectives which have been set by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) through its 3.17 Model Course on Maritime English. However, the mixed English language p...

The maritime sector in Malaysia is best known globally due to the Straits of Malacca and being a nation surrounded by sea. Malaysia also has a substantial maritime industry consisting of numerous shipyards, ports and terminal faculties, ship services and a plethora of other companies and institutions with maritime oriented activities and become ess...

Production optimization and improved recovery efficiency while reducing operating and capital expenditure has been the main goal of the operators, and makes it imperative under the current oil prices. Reservoir Management Programme (RMP) is a comprehensive and integrated process of establishing control over hydrocarbons appraisal, extraction, voida...

Malaysia, situated between East and West, is an interface in world maritime trade, playing a crucial role in the business of moving container boxes in South-eastern parts of Asia. The prominent container terminals in Malaysia such as Port Klang and Port of Tanjung Pelepas are positioned among the top twenty ports in terms of volume handled. The ann...

The research is aimed to identify factors in the maritime education and training (MET) system and its relationship on maritime labour employers’ (MLEs) trust based on current practice in Malaysia. A questionnaire survey was used, and the respondents were the participants of a related conference in Malaysia. The structural equation modelling techniq...

A method of constructing high productivity and high wellbore dynamic stability wells has been developed for EOR field development application. It integrates a heuristic reservoir engineering modelling method for determining optimum drainage points with high dynamic flow and a 3D coupled reservoir geomechanical modelling method for identifying low s...

Globalization push container terminal grown rapidly in decade. To fulfill the future traffic re- quirement, this study highlights marginal expansion planning of infrastructure in a container terminal. By using marginal approach, the expansion plan can be determine correctly and eco- nomically stage by stage. A mathematical model has generated to ca...

Prediction of remaining oil saturation distribution is vital for any mature field re-development project. Identifying correct areas of bypassed oil pockets and remaining oil saturation is the most essential requirement for planning different activities such as production enhancement, infill, EOR etc. History matched simulation models are often used...

Current offshore marginal field development and mature field re-development in Malaysia consistently encountered high development cost and low recovery or incremental recovery. Wells are being drilled and completed at a typical cost of 10 to 35 MM$ per well while the estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) per well is as low as < 0.5 MM Bbl. The correspo...

For thin oil-rim reservoirs, well placement, well type, well path and the completion methods shall be evaluated with close integration of key reservoir and production engineering considerations. This involves maximizing reservoir fluid contact and drainage, optimizing the well productivity, and optimizing well life-cycle production profile along th...

The handling efficiency of container terminal may be affected by variables of vessel calls, loading and discharge of container in the terminal. Some of the previous studies indicated that the performance of ship operation would be affected by variables of vessel calls, such as ship size, container loaded and container discharged would affect the ha...

The objective of this paper is to illustrate of petrophysical analysis on well-data (cores and well-logs) for geophysics’ need, which is essential and differs in certain ways from standard log analysis. By including seismic data, reservoir characterization has been developed over the past several years, which integrate a multi-disciplinary effort i...

The limit of resolution of seismic data is a complex issue that involves not only wavelet frequency, phase characters, data quality (S/N), interference, tuning, but also criteria on how to measure resolvability, which can hamper confident lithology, porosity and fluid prediction of thinly bedded reservoirs. Widess?s classic paper (1973) concluded...

Deep water fields are subject to higher development costs than more conventional field developments and often have challenging topside and subsurface issues and uncertainties. The level of heterogeneity, compartmentalization, fault intensity, reservoir connectivity, pressure and flow communication across the field, sand/fine production, wellbore st...

The limit of resolution of seismic data is a complex issue that involves not only wavelet frequency, phase characters, data quality (S/N), interference, tuning, but also criteria on how to measure resolvability, which can hamper confident lithology, porosity and fluid prediction of thinly bedded reservoirs. Widess's classic paper (1973) concluded t...

Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) has been touted as the Holy Grail for achieving the highest possible recovery factor. This technology is fairly matured in land based development, with older fields in Bakersfield and Indonesia achieving up to 90% recovery factors. However, EOR considerations take on a whole new dimension in an offshore environment. Astr...

Chemical EOR projects were very active during 1980?s, however, during 90?s the interest in chemical EOR has fallen due to the low oil prices and also technical challenges that the methods poses. While surfactant flooding has difficult design considerations of chemicals, large capital requirements and is very sensitive to local reservoir heterogenei...

The M4 field is located in the North of the Central Luconia Province in the Sarawak Basin, East Malaysia. The reservoir is approximately 2000 m below sea-level where the water depth is approximately 120m. A study for CO2 geological storage has been carried out to address the feasibility of injecting and storing CO2 in the M4 depleted carbonate gas...

Current offshore marginal field development and mature field re-development in Malaysia consistently encountered high development cost and low recovery or incremental recovery. Wells are being drilled and completed at a high cost of15 to 30 M$ per well while the estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) per well is as low as < 0.4 M Bbl. The associated wel...

Oil production from oil rim reservoirs has always been a challenge due to their thinly spread oil resources and complicated production mechanisms. Movement of oil/water and gas/oil contacts could be very sensitive to conventional production operation and cause detrimental early water/gas breakthrough. The low oil production volume and hence low rec...

Deep water fields are commonly subject to high development cost, challenging topside and subsurface issues and uncertainties. The level of heterogeneity, compartmentalization, fault intensity, reservoir connectivity, pressure and flow communication across the field, sand/fine production, wellbore stability are commonly less well understood at the t...

In the quest of improving the hydrocarbon recovery and reducing the development cost in the challenging multi-stacked compartmentalized fields as well as oil rim reservoirs in Malaysia, well type and completion design was found to play a major role. Intelligent well design and completions, namely multi-lateral, selective and controlled injection an...

Water saturation in the reservoir is commonly determined by interpretation of the electrical resistivity measurements using the Archie's law. The relationship of water saturation and resistivity index is usually characterized by a constant and unique saturation exponent (i.e. n) for whole reservoir. However, our study in line with various researche...

Water saturation in the reservoir is commonly determined by interpretation of the electrical resistivity measurements using the Archie's law. The relationship of water saturation and resistivity index is usually characterized by a constant and unique saturation exponent (i.e. n) for whole reservoir. However, our study in line with various researche...

The M4 Field is located north of Central Luconia Province in the Sarawak Basin, East Malaysia. The reservoir is approximately 2000 m below sea-level where the water depth is approximately 120m. An integrated geomechanical study for CO2 geological storage has been conducted to evaluate the feasibility of injecting and storing CO2 in the M4 depleted...

The amount of condensed water should be carefully estimated in gas development plans, especially for fields with high CO2 content. This may affect the design of the well, surface facilities such as water treatment equipment and CO2 removal units, and flow assurance and corrosion control strategies. However, reliable prediction of the water content...

Initiatives on improved hydrocarbon gas recovery are usually facing challenges which are directly related to representative understanding of reservoir and fluid flow characterization as well as the depletion strategies. A field case study has been used as a platform to explain such challenges and the adopted integrated methodologies toward improvin...

A comprehensive maritime industry policy that can be adequately monitored to achieve a competitive advantage is important. The Malaysian maritime industry comprises multifaceted sectors that are governed by fragmented governmental agencies. In this research, we investigated the Malaysian maritime industry cluster comprising three main sectors: Ship...

The oil rim reservoirs are referred to the reservoirs with limited oil column underlain with aquifer and overlain by a gas cap. In such reservoirs, the whole oil column can be in the capillary transition zone with a complex flow dynamics. In some cases, oil might have been displaced by imbibition process over geological time during the fluid migrat...

The oil rim reservoirs are referred to the reservoirs with limited oil column underlain with aquifer and overlain by a gas cap. In such reservoirs, the whole oil column can be in the capillary transition zone with a complex flow dynamics. In some cases, oil might have been displaced by imbibition process over geological time during the fluid migrat...

ISM Code claimed as an effective and valuable method in improving the safety culture in Maritime Industry that could lead to the continuous improvement of safety performance. The benefit of the implementation of the ISM Code for Maritime Industry in Malaysia needs to be evaluated. The key essentials of this ISM Code need to be examined for it's eff...