Project management guide - Tapa blanda

The purpose of this book is to provide some understanding and guidelines on the way medium sized and large Projects in an international environment can be initiated and managed. Its content is based on the collective experience of the authors obtained during the last forty years with an International Oil & Cas Company, with the rest spent with engineering and construction contractors. The experience of the authors in the development of oil and gas fields (onshore and offshore) may usefully inspire the management of large projects in other domains of activity : it is certainly right for the nuclear industry, the chemical industry and most process industries. This book covers all the various steps and aspects of a Project : the risks related to a Project, the various phases of a Project, the Project organization, the contractual issues, the HSE objectives and human dimension, the scheduling of a Project, the cost monitoring, the quality control and quality assurance aspects and the training issues.

Marc Ducros, alter seven years spent with Technip and nearly two years with UHDE France, joined Total in 1976 as head of E&P Project Assessment. He was then assigned as a manager in Paris and Asia. He has given Projed Management courses with Total Professeurs Associés (TPA) and with IFPtraining. ------------------ Gabriel Fernet, spent his entire professional career with Total, as a lawyer and negotiator. After the negotiation of exploration permits (Uranium, Oil & Gas), he was mainly involved in development projects : Alwyn (UK), Hidra (Argentina), Yadana (Burma), etc. He has given Project Management courses with Total Professeurs Associés (TPAI in Iordan (for Iraki studentsl.