Petrobras Oil Platform
- 1. QUALITY ASSURANCE AND THE SINKING OF THE LARGEST OFFSHORE OIL PLATFORM March 2001
- 2. For those of you who may be involved in project cost control (at whatever level),
- 3. please read this quote from a Petrobras executive,
- 4. extolling the benefits of cutting quality assurance and inspection costs,
- 5. on the project that sunk into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil in March 2001.
- 6. "Petrobras has established new global benchmarks for the generation of exceptional shareholder wealth
- 7. through an aggressive and innovative programme of cost cutting on its P36 production facility.
- 8. Conventional constraints have been successfully challenged
- 9. and replaced with new paradigms appropriate to the globalised corporate market place.
- 10. Through an integrated network of facilitated workshops,
- 11. the project successfully rejected the established constricting and negative influences of prescriptive engineering, onerous quality requirements, and outdated concepts of inspection and client control.
- 12. Elimination of these unnecessary straitjackets has empowered the project's suppliers and contractors to propose highly economical solutions,
- 13. with the win-win bonus of enhanced profitability margins for themselves.
- 14. The P36 platform shows the shape of things to come
- 15. in unregulated global market economy of the 21st Century.
- 16. And now you have seen the final result of this proud achievement by Petrobras.
- 17. Does your company have a cost saving effort? If so, youd better know how to swim.