Project management for oil and gas projects comes with a unique set of challenges that include the management of science, technology, and engineering aspects. Underlining the specific issues involved in projects in this field, Project Management for the Oil and Gas Industry: A World System Approach presents step-by-step application of project management techniques. Using the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) framework from the Project Management Institute (PMI) as the platform, the book provides an integrated approach that covers the concepts, tools, and techniques for managing oil and gas projects.
The authors discuss specialized tools such as plan, do, check, act (PDCA); define, measure, analyze, improve, control (DMAIC); suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, customers (SIPOC); design, evaluate, justify, integrate (DEJI); quality function deployment (QFD); affinity diagrams; flowcharts; Pareto charts; and histograms. They also discuss the major activities in oil and gas risk assessment, such as feasibility studies, design, transportation, utility, survey works, construction, permanent structure works, mechanical and electrical installations, and maintenance.
Strongly advocating a world systems approach to managing oil and gas projects and programs, the book covers quantitative and qualitative techniques. It addresses technical and managerial aspects of projects and illustrates the concepts with case examples of applications of project management tools and techniques to real-life project scenarios that can serve as lessons learned for best practices. An in-depth examination of project management for oil and gas projects, the book is a handbook for professionals in the field, a guidebook for technical consultants, and a resource for students.
Preface
Authors
Chapter 1 : World Systems Framework for Oil and Gas Industry
Chapter 2 : Characteristics of Oil and Gas Projects
Chapter 3 : Project Management Body of Knowledge
Chapter 4 : Oil and Gas Project Communication
Chapter 5 : Critical Path Method for Oil and Gas Projects
Chapter 6 : The Drag Efficient : The Missing Quantification of Time on the Critical Path
Chapter 7 : Decision Tools for Project Management in the Oil and Gas Industry
Chapter 8 : Project Schedule Forecast and Control : Reliable Schedule Forecasting in Federal Design–Build Facility Procurement
Chapter 9 : Multiattribute Drilling System Selection
Chapter 10 : Managing Construction Projects in Oil and Gas
Chapter 11 : Engineering Economics for Oil and Gas
Chapter 12 : Project Risk Analysis
Appendix A : Reservoir Monitoring and Management : A Project Management Approach
Appendix B : Useful Units and Conversion Factors
Index
