Integrated Project Management Applied in Word-Class Gas-Field Development Projects: From Theory to Practice

Author(s):  
Eduardo Bazo ◽  
Sergio Barrios
2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 5035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Matturi ◽  
Chris Pain

Over the last number of decades there has been a tendency within the international development sector to privilege the management of projects in a siloed manner. This translates to projects managed in a narrow way according to pre-defined parameters of say the education or health sectors. As a project manager you are held accountable for delivering education or health outputs. A shift in donor funding to focus on development projects that are considered easy to administer partly explains this siloed approach to project management within the development sector. However, there is a gradual kick back against the siloed project management approach. Instead we are seeing a return to an integrated managerial approach.An integrated managerial approach involves bringing together various technical specialists to work on common objectives in a coordinated and collaborative manner. A growing number of development actors such as Concern Worldwide are embracing this ‘new approach’. For Concern Worldwide integrated projects are interventions which address multiple needs through coordination across a variety of sectors and with the participation of all relevant stakeholders to achieve common goals. Integrated projects are about sector projects working together with the same target group in the same area in a coordinated manner. This paper reflects on Concern’s experience and evidence to date with integration drawing on the agency’s work in Zambia. The Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition project in Zambia highlights the practical challenges and lessons of managing an integrated project.   


1976 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
M. A. Delbaere

Oilfield operators have always looked for ways of reducing the costs of oil and gas development projects and especially when investment costs were critical to project economics. Tubingless completions have evolved over the last 30 years in North America to fill the need for reduced investment costs particularly in the case of fields with either limited reserves or limited profitability.Tubingless completions basically utilise small diameter tubulars to function as both production casing and flowstring. The tubulars are cemented in the borehole, not to be removed or recovered until the field is depleted and/or the well abandoned. The technique is limited in application to those fields with no corrosion or wax or hydrate problems and with a limited requirement for reservoir stimulation and workovers. The greater the number of operations performed within the tubingless well bore the greater the risk of losing the well.The main benefits of tubingless completions are as follows:Reduction in development well completion costs.Marginally productive hydrocarbon zones can be completed and tested.Completion of individual gas zones of multi-pay wells within their own permanently segregated flowstrings at much lower capital and operating costs.The experience this far with Kincora gas field development wells indicates the tubingless completion method to be completely feasible for gas wells drilled in the Surat Basin and possibly in other areas of Australia.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herminio Passalacqua ◽  
Jose Luis Ortiz Volcan ◽  
Mohamad Hasan Al Einawi ◽  
Jamaneh Mostafa Kadnaji ◽  
Fatemah Karam

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