Background
1. Develop a set of relevant and achievable goals appropriate for the project described in the Case Study. How your goals will be measured as the project progresses.
Being the project manager, the responsibility is to bring the Western Australian (WA) oil storage facility up to the standard and in order to achieve this, a number of goals need to be ascertained and mandated throughout the company. The statistics of the project and the site shows that almost 30% of the company’s unloaded storage capacity in at the verge of getting collapsed.
Goal 1: The project engineer needs to monitor the storage tanks and implement renovation policies immediately
Goal 2: The Company needs to employ new policies by which environmental leakage can be reduced to the least possible extent
Goal 3: The Company need to reconsider the loading of oil tanks by removable vehicles and need to implement construction of underground pipelines by which the oil can be loaded on to the tanks which will eventually eliminate the risk of any accidents
The three distinctive goals can be measured and monitored as and when the implication of every respective goal get sanctioned and carried forward and after the mitigation of every loophole, it can be administered that the respective goal has been achieved. The company needs to monitor the progress of the works being undertaken in accordance to the goals and the progress needs to be relayed to the project management office periodically.
2. Write a brief scope statement for the Case Study project.
The objective of this project is to renovate the age-old WA petroleum storage facility and reduce the environmental deficit to the least possible extent. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification needs to be administered as well in West Australia. Since the already established petroleum tank is almost 50 years old and have been suffering a dilapidated condition since quite some time, the project management office has sanctioned the renovation protocols and policies since the company is shelving out almost $20,000 AUS per month as environment fines and penalties just because of the fact that the oil spills have been occurring for a prolonged time span. This is the reason the project manager has proposed a renovation program alongside the construction of an underground tunnelling and pipeline system from the non-inhabitable area from where the oil will be transferred to the main tanks. As far as the entire renovation and pipeline installation are concerned, the initial top-down estimate provided for a budget not exceeding $1,000,000 AUS.
Project Goals
Additionally, the entire establishment of the renovation and the new construction would be done by following the norms of the environmental ethics of the country and also by taking legal permissions from both local and nationalised governments. A proposal would also be delivered to the government for funding the project partially.
- A 3,500 square foot dimensioned underground pipeline which shall start from the neighbouring non-inhabited region in a close proximity to the main tanks which shall connect all the three tanks in a successive manner.
- Installation of new tanks in place of the old ones with galvanized exteriors so that the longevity and durability of the components get increased.
- The architecture of all the renovated tanks and the installed pipeline should be such that nothing gets visible above the ground and hence, the project sanction need to be ascertained in such a way that all the durable materials are used for the renovation and the installation purpose.
- Energy star or higher rated all-electric stainless steel and galvanized coating raw materials to be used for the framing up of the tanks and the pipelines along with shorter pipeline and vent system.
- The interior finish need to be done by using environmentally preferable materials according to the national sustainable design council.
- Use of integrated, intelligent controlling systems for lighting, heating and ventilation inside the passage for future servicing and easy access to the vents
- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification
- Signed contract
- Architectural design initiative
- Review of the 30% design statement
- Review of the 60% design statement
- Review of the 90% design statement
- Completion of the design
- Approval of the relevant permits and initiation of the construction works
- Completed excavation
- Completed foundation works
- Completed framing works
- Installation of the HVAC system
- Plumbing, electrical and mechanical installations
- All the above inspections passed
- Exterior finishing
- Completion of the landscape
- Finishing of the interiors
- Final inspection by the company executives and national engineers and inspection officers
- Acceptance by the legislative assembly
- Initiation of the storage plant
The installation and the construction work need to implement at least 50% of the renewable energy sources which would account for at least 2000 KWH per month from a Grid tile roof top solar installation. This would be incorporated with Micro-grid AC coupling upgraded to full energy independency such as wind generation with addition benefit to the environment. The accessibility of the road or the passageway should be made to all the three tanks instead of tank 3 alone and the retaining walls in case of tanks 1 and 2 should be made thicker and consistent.
3. Provide an overview of the Case Study project’s overall process, life cycle or methodology.
The life cycle integrity management and the methodologies implemented in case of oil and natural gas asset are carried out with the sole aim of ensuring the integrity of the asset that needs to be maintained from the very first operation till the decommissioning. The life cycle stages of this project would comprise of the following;
- Pre-FEED
FEED
- Design
- Construction and commissioning
- Operations management
- Decommissioning
The pre-feed and the feed stages of the project are those stages that enable the definition of the scope to be represented in a more refined way. This automatically ensures minimization of risk factors associated with the project thereby reducing the project costing as well. This stage depicts the entire project’s objective clearance and transparency and overall feasibility of the project that gets maintained with a cost effective solution. At this initial stage, only the general proposals with respect to integrity control get administered. During the FEED stage, the consideration needs to be given on to procurement of raw materials, legislation, fabrication and tax issues. This stage also fosters a vivid entailment of the full life cost analysis. The integrity related isues that gets governed at this stage are material sectioning, chemical treatment facilities, evaluation and inspection.
The designing stage comprises of two consolidated steps namely design and detailed design. The phases involved in these two stages are as follows;
- Confirming the selected raw materials by the use of design codes, standards and processes related to construction, fabrication and assembly
- Evaluation of the proposed corrosion resistive controlling options
- The vivid engineering detailing incorporates detailed particulars and drafting processes which delivers the finalized design specifications
The construction and commissioning phase of the project will comprise of systems required for the ongoing monitoring and integral sectioning of the project. The construction does not generally occur at a single specified region and on the contrary, most of the constructions are done in a different region individually and then assembled in the final spot. This uses 3-dimensional map during the operational phase. An intelligent information system also gets developed by the addition of key data to the system. The Integrity Management Systems include several documentation phases such as integrity management policy and strategy, sand management strategy, corrosion management manual, hydrotesting and preservation protocols, chemical management strategies, risk-oriented inspection strategy, corrosion evolution manual and inspection protocols.
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