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INGENIEUR
ADVERTORIAL

IFP Engineering Solutions

Growing Malaysia’s
O & G Process
Engineering Services
A MSC Malaysia Status and
its accompanying incentives
can be a big boost to a small
engineering service company.
IFP Engineering Solutions Sdn
Bhd ( IFP), incorporated in 2012,
provides design engineering
services in the oil and gas (O &G)
industry. The company credits
the Multimedia Development
Corporation (MDec), a onestop
Government
agency
which accords the Malaysia
MSC status, for assistance in
bringing in engineering talent
and promoting its services.
Hari Chandran, HR/Admin
manager at IFP explains that the
company specialises in onshore
downstream oil and gas
processing. This is backed by its
founder and managing director
Dr Ragunath Bharath who has
a PhD in chemical engineering
and 25 years of experience in
this field.
On a global perspective,
downstream oil and gas
processing is a billion dollar
industry and most of the
players are big multinationals.
As a Malaysian entity in this
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Hari Chandran

specialised field, IFP is unique,
and managed to obtain MSC
Malaysia status from MDeC.
(MSC Malaysia status is
recognition by the