TABLE OF CONTENTS Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations of a project. The project manager, sometimes referred to as the project coordinator or leader, coordinates project activxities on a day-to-day basis. This is an ongoing challenge that requires an understanding of the broader contextual environment of the project and the ability to balance conflicting demands between (1) available resources and expectations (especially with respect to quality, time and cost);(2) differing stakeholder priorities; (3) identified needs and project scope; and (4) quality and quantity of the project's deliverables. Project management for engineering and construction projects requires the application of principles and techniques of project management from the feasibility study through design and construction to completion. Good project management during the early stages of project development greatly influences the achievement of quality, cost, and schedule.
This chapter covers many aspects of managing capital projects in the gas processing business. For the most part, best-practice management for gas plant projects follows generic project management principles applicable to most industrial engineering and construction projects. This chapter reviews many of the standard and accepted practices that lead to successful installations, as well as some of the unique considerations for gas plant projects, which arise from relatively complex processes employed in typically remote locations.
One or more parties can perform the design and'or completion of a project. Regardless of the method that is used to...
