Engineering Management of oil and gas projects provides guidance on effective management of the design effort including detailed engineering review and approval processes between the owner companies and the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractors. This book includes perspectives about the project life cycle, its governance structure, gate system, complexities, contract models and quality measurements in oil and gas major projects. Further, it present case studies of projects gone wrong, due to mismatches, errors, and inconsistencies in the FEED. These case histories reveal how avoidable gaps and errors creep into FEED resulting in project failures and how the review systems fail to detect them.
Identifies the potential pitfalls, gaps, and errors during the design & detailed engineering of oil and gas facilities.
Provides perspectives from owner and contractor which often conflicts with project objectives. Covers Project Delivery Assurance through the stage gate process
Includes examples and case studies from the industry
Discusses project complexity and VUCA aspects
This book is useful guide for the practising project and engineering professionals in the oil and gas industry.
About the Author: G. Unnikrishnan has over 40 years of experience in oil and gas industry in India and Middle east. He retired as Engineering Specialist from a national oil and gas company. His experience spans the areas of process design, process safety, engineering & project management. He advised companies on quality of Front End Engineering Design and how understanding and measuring the same can improve project delivery.
He is currently working as consultant to design and engineering companies in India and abroad. His expertise is mainly on process design and process safety and how process plant design and operations can be optimized to improve process safety. He is an active researcher in the area and is the author of a book on application of Bayesian network methodology to risk assessment of oil and gas equipment. He has also presented and published papers on process safety in several international conferences and technical journals.
He is a certified Functional Safety Engineer on Safety Instrumented Systems. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Calicut University, MTech from Cochin University of Science & Technology and PhD from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India.
V. Pratapkumar is a chemical engineer with over 40 years of experience in project implementation in Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, and Fertilizer industry. His predominant area of experience is in project management followed by engineering and construction. He started his career as a Management Trainee with Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore (FACT) and has subsequently held senior level positions in UHDE (India), P.T. Polysindo Indonesia, Pipeline Engineering (India), and Petrofac Engineering & Construction UAE.
He retired from Petrofac in 2014 as Vice President and Head of Project Services. He is currently advising L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering as a consultant in project management competency development. His direct experience with project implementation is in India, Indonesia, Georgia, and Kuwait. He has also held oversight positions for projects in several other Middle East, Asian and North African countries. His active involvement with EPC project implementation in the Oil & Gas industry since 2002 has given him valuable insights into the issues related to implementation of large projects, and the critical role the quality of Front End Engineering Design documents play in the success of an EPC project.
