Pipeline Engineering Research On Meticulous Management Of EPC Projects

In the latest20years, how to effectively improve the management of EPC projects has become the common conern and important topic discussed in the community of EPC practice and theory. There is coming a new rising wave of pipeline construction, a situation in which the professional pipeline construction team will meet with the current tight budget problem coming up as a result of the worldwide financial crisis. As the competition among EPC industires is sharpening with each passing day, the meticulous pattern of management, an advanced managing phylosophy and theory must be followed by EPC management instead of the out-of-date extensive pattern of management. The paper focuses on the study of such pattern of management widely adopted in the field of pipeline construction management.The paper first makes a theoretical summary of EPC pipeline project management, elaborates the current situation and existing problems challenging the pipeline project management. Since each EPC project of pipeline construction has its own peculiar characteristics in respect of technics and management, WBS method is used for intensive management process analysis on design/procurement/construction depending on specific cases. Based on the characteristics of EPC pipeline project management and practical analysis, herein come up the key points of such EPC project management, which bring the advantages of the meticulous method to the full play:translating the complex project management into the relatively simple and routinized work so as to normalize its management action and put the meticulous management into actual practice through information tracing and resources sharing by way of the information management system.Finally, it concludes with the key points of EPC project meticulous management and discusses the issues related to its practice.