ADCO's Experience and Lessons Learned in Quality Management of Major Projects

Abstract ADCO has recently managed a major project called 1.8 MMbd Bab Thamama G and Habshan 2 consists of additional wells, flow lines, new process units and modification of existing surface facilities that are required to increase oil production in the Bab field by a sustainable rate of 80 MBOPD. The facilities will include four additional Remote Degassing Stations (RDSs), namely RDS-7, RDS-8, RDS-9 & RDS-10 that gather from numerous production flow lines and deliver the raw crude to the BCDS through transfer lines. Overall Project Objectives is to achieve EPC completion by Q4 2012, improve on ADCO's HSE targets, and Implement project within approved budget The purpose of this paper is to share ADCO's experience during project execution, both in terms of technical and project quality management issues. The paper highlights the challenges faced, achievements and lessons learnt during execution of the project. Mitigation of increased risk and consequences of failures due to higher service severity, Cost/time optimization drive due to material delivered from new and cheap suppliers with less quality level, Increasing inspection tasks of materials from different sources, and Management of the Third Party Inspection (TPI) to control all scattered activities locally and overseas were some of the major quality challenges during execution of the project. The projects quality control practices implemented throughout the lifecycle of the project, starting with conceptual and preliminary engineering, through detailed engineering, procurement and construction are highlighted in the paper. Major lessons learnt, quality control improvements tools, and other project quality issues are discussed in the paper.