Quality Management in Oil and Gas Projects

Abdul Razzak Rumane

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780367460754
• eBook ISBN: 9781000346510
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Manufacturing
• Index: Business

This book provides the tools and techniques, management principles, procedures, concepts, and methods to ensure the successful completion of an oil and gas project while also ensuring the proper design, procurement, and construction for making the project most qualitative, competitive, and economical for safer operational optimized performance.

It discusses quality during design, FEED, detailed engineering, selection of project teams, procurement procedure of EPC contract, managing quality during mobilization, procurement, execution, planning, scheduling, monitoring, control, quality, and testing to achieve the desired results for an oil and gas project.

This book provides all the related information to professional practitioners, designers, consultants, contractors, quality managers, project managers, construction managers, and academics/instructors involved in oil and gas projects and related industries.

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• Provides information on the various quality tools used to manage construction projects from inception to handover

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• Discusses the life cycle phases, developed on systems engineering approach, and how it is divided into manageable activity/element/components segments to manage and control the project

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• Includes a wide range of tools, techniques, principles, and procedures used to address quality management

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• Covers quality management systems and development of quality management systems manuals

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• Discusses quality and risk management, and health, safety, and environmental management during the design and construction process

Section 1

Quality Tools and Techniques in Oil and Gas Projects

1 Overview of Quality

1.1 History of Quality

Quality issues have been of great concern throughout the recorded history of humans. During the New Stone Age, several civilizations emerged, and some 4000–5000 years ago, considerable skills in construction were acquired. The pyramids in Egypt were built approximately 2589–2566 BCE. Hammurabi, the king of Babylonia (1792–1750 BCE), codified the law, according to which, during the Mesopotamian era, builders were responsible for maintaining the quality of buildings and were given the death penalty if any of their construction collapsed and their occupants were killed. The extension of Greek settlements around the Mediterranean after 200 BCE left records showing that temples and theaters were built using marble. India had strict standards for working in gold in the fourth century BCE.

China’s recorded quality history can be traced back to earlier than 200 BCE. China had instituted quality control in its handicrafts during the Zhou dynasty between 1100 and 250 BCE. During this period, the handicraft industry was mainly engaged in producing ceremonial artifacts. This industry survived the long succession of dynasties that followed up to 1911 CE.

During the Middle Ages, guilds took the responsibility for quality control upon themselves. Guilds and governments carried out quality control; consumers, of course, carried out informal quality inspection throughout history.

The guilds’ involvement in quality was extensive. All craftsmen living in a particular area were required to join the corresponding guild and were responsible for controlling the quality of their own products. If any of the items was found defective, then the craftsman discarded the faulty items. The guilds also initiated punishments for members who turned out shoddy products. They maintained inspections and audits to ensure that artisans followed quality specifications. The guild hierarchy consisted of three categories of workers: apprentice, journeyman, and master. The guilds had established specifications for input materials, manufacturing processes, and finished products, as well as methods of inspection and testing. They were active in managing quality during Middle Ages until the Industrial Revolution marginalized their influence.

1.2 Definition of Quality

Quality has different meanings for different people. The American Society for Quality (ASQ) glossary defines quality as follows:

A subjective term for which each person has his or her own definition. In technical usage, quality can have two meanings:

1. The characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs.
2. A product or service free of deficiencies.

It further states that it is

• Based on customers’ perceptions of a product’s design and how well the design matches the...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Author
• Abbreviations
• Synonyms
• Section 1 Quality Tools and Techniques in Oil and Gas Projects
• Section 2 Quality Management Principles, Procedures, Concepts, and Methods in Oil and Gas Projects
• Index