Re: Management System related to Piping Design

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   A lesson for those who choose to see good engineering as an optional extra    Petrobras built the P36 Production Rig (Biggest in the world) as cheaply as they could by neglecting traditional engineering methods & standards.

   The attached photographs, taken a few weeks ago, show the result !    The wisdom of buzzword engineering takes a tragic turn for the worse    -literally. A press release from Petrobras last year.Quote ...    "Petrobras has established new global    benchmarks for the generation of
   exceptional shareholder wealth
   through an aggressive and innovative
   programme of cost cutting
   on its P36 production facility.
   Conventional constraints have been
   successfully challenged and replaced
   with new paradigms appropriate to the    globalised corporate market place.
   Through an integrated network of facilitated    workshops, the project has successfully    rejected the established constricting    and negative influences of prescriptive    engineering, onerous quality requirements,    and outdated concepts of inspection
   and client control.
   Elimination of these unnecessary
   straitjackets has empowered the project's    suppliers and contractors to propose highly    economical solutions, with the win-win    bonus of enhanced profitability margins    for themselves.
   The P36 platform shows the shape of things    to come in the unregulated
   Global market economy of the 21st Century."    End quote

   http://www.bluestarline.org/farstad/p36.html

http://www.mando.com.au/market_analysis.htm

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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Wed Dec 21 18:21:00 2005