Dear Paul,
I would like to make this post anonymous as well.
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If a client were to assess the capability and the quality of work of a contractor. He would look for credentials. It is quite fashionable these days for contractors to sport a ISO 140001 certification.
The last company, from the US, for which I worked, got its certification during my time there. Before the DNV audit, the engineering manager circulated information that anybody telling anything on the contrary to the company getting its certification, is out! The audits are also a hum bug. Both the contractor and the auditing firm need each other for their survival. In my opinion they were far from getting any certification for what they were doing.
There are local material suppliers in Kuwait who supply piping materials for the refinery. If it turns out for any reason that a certain material does not meet a requirement in its certification. No problem, the supplier will bring a new certificate the next day, in compliance. Provided he is told what was not in compliance. It seems to be very much an accepted practice.
The company that I currently work, from Europe, do not have any Oil and Gas experience, yet they are the current designate Design contractor for the client. The company's idea of quality is mark-up everything in it's colour codes. Just about enough to hood-wink the client into thinking that it is after-all quality stuff that we dish out. Not only that, we also do IDC (Inter discipline check) for even site visit reports. Piping estimates of jobs are done even if there is no scope defined from Process. That is how it is, when a job arrives every discipline starts estimating and has about less than a day to finish. Schedules are a joke in itself.
These are some of the tricks of the trade to remain profitable in a competitive world.
Never mind what you estimate or bid, there is a way out. Received on Sat Jan 17 19:26:00 2004
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