Project Management for the Oil and Gas Industry: A World System Approach (Systems Innovation Book Series)

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. World Systems Framework for Oil and Gas IndustryA Multitiered Systems ViewSome Case ExamplesEnergy CostsEducation and Workforce Development IssuesSystem of Systems FrameworkWhat Is System of Systems?What Is a Project System?What Is Systems Engineering?Embracing Project ManagementThe Gasoline Pump SystemQuantitative Systems ModelingCost-Schedule-Quality ConstraintsSystem of Systems Value ModelingExample of System Value ModelingEngineering Project ManagementRole of Emerging NationsReferencesCharacteristics of Oil and Gas ProjectsGovernment InvolvementFate of RefineriesOil Sands ProjectBP to Invest 4 Billion in Gulf of Mexico in 2012Flak of FrackingRules, Laws, Regulations, and StandardsKeystone Oil PipelineNew Projects, New Project Management OpportunitiesGas Export Project ManagementCase Example of Shell's Use of PMBOKHail to Project ManagementProject Management Improve OperationsTechnology Project ManagementProject Management Improves Well Control EventsOil Bunkering in Developing NationsReferencesProject Management Body of KnowledgeProject Management Knowledge AreasProject DefinitionsProject Management SystemProject Management ProcessesWork Breakdown StructureProject IntegrationProject SustainabilityOil and Gas Project CommunicationCommunications Management: Step-by-Step ImplementationComplexity of Multiperson CommunicationUsing the Triple C ModelTypical Triple C QuestionsHow to Accomplish Triple C CommunicationSMART CommunicationHow to Achieve CooperationImplementing CoordinationConflict Resolution Using Triple C ApproachReferencesCritical Path Method for Oil and Gas ProjectsActivity NetworksCritical Path MethodThe Critical PathGantt ChartsSchedule CompressionProgram Evaluation and Review TechniquePERT FormulasPERT ExamplePrecedence Diagramming MethodWork Rate AnalysisWork Rate ExamplesTeam Work Rate AnalysisLearning Curve AnalysisThe Drag.. This book presents an integrated approach to project management for oil and gas projects. It covers concepts, tools, and techniques of project management based on the elements of the Project Management Body of Knowledge. The book also contains case examples of applications of project management tools and techniques to real-life project scenarios. The book is intended to serve as a reference book for planners, project operators, stakeholders, designers, project managers, business managers, consultants, project analysts, senior executives, project team members, members of project management office, project customers, functional managers, trainers, and researchers.