Fabrication Yard Jacket and Topside
I’ll be sharing an overview on managing a typical Offshore Installation Contract. I do not have a formal training on project management, thus i’ll be writing based on my personal experience up to today. As such, it will be very helpful for other reader to assist in giving comments and feedback about this specific articles. This is going to be a living document where i’m trying to write based on the guide lines below. Readers are also invited to write.
Bidding Stage
- Sourcing for Potential Tenders
- Bid or not to Bid.
- Prepare Bidding Document.
- Clarifications
- Technical Package
- Commercial Package
- Submission
- Post Submission activities.
- Negotiation
- Contract Award.
Contract Award
- Setting up Project Management Team (PMT)
- Transfer data from Bidding Team to Project Management Team
- Brainstorming strategy
- Gather Data, specifications
- Identify Resources required.
- Contract Risk Analysis
- Meeting the Client
Conceptual
- Develop Project Execution Plan
- Proposed alternatives
- Detail identification of Resources required to execute the job.
- Develop Basline Schedule
- Cash Flow and project Financing
- Goals identification
Pre-Mobilization
- Regular meeting with clients.
- Finalize schedule.
- Monitor cost and budget through cost control.
- Prepare procedures
- Award Subcontractors
- Managing subcontractors to provide all necessary deliverable
- Sharing Lesson Learn with Client & Subcontractors.
- Risk Analysis
- Local Authority requirement.
- Getting all resources ready.
- Managing changes
- Identify Potential Variation Orders.
- Certifications, training and Field Testing (Mock Up)
- Site Visit
- Procurement and supply
- Identify logistic base
- Insurance
Mobilization
- Resource mobilization, allocations and planning.
- HSSE briefing to all personnel including subcontractors.
- Update Planning
- Progress monitoring and forecasting
- Meeting the CLIENT site team.
- Reports
- Certifications
Offshore Executions
- Clearance to sail by client and required 3rd party, typically marine Warranty Surveyor
- Sail out to field
- Managing the site changes
- Managing of Changes
- Execute job as per procedure
- Variation orders identification.
- Progress monitoring and forecasting
- Cost control monitoring
- Managing resources and subcontractors.
- Execution of Variation orders job.
- Resolve issues
- Procurement & support from base
- Testing and commissioning.
- Progress or milestone claim
- Certification and acceptance
Close Out
- Field acceptance by CLIENT.
- Demobilization of offshore resources
- Preparing all documentation for as-built
- As built preparation.
- Transfer responsibility to CLIEN. Warranty Period start.
- Demob all subcontractor.
- Clear all payment and disputes.
- Clear all variation orders.
- Lesson learnt session with all parties.
- Close all other records.
- Project review with & without client.
- Close all financial records and identify profit loss.
- Settle all other accounts.
- Close all items related to local Authority.
- Deliver the final report.
- Getting the Contract Close Out Certificate.
- Re-Assign Project Management team to other project.
- Stay active on Bidding support.
Some project we make money, some project might go south. Please add the process and items. will try to elaborate more in the next post.
