Project Management in the Oil and Gas Industry

1.5 Project Management Tasks
Every manager in the project organization is responsible for planning and 
monitoring the plan and assuring that the executive work matches with 
the plan. To achieve that, he should coordinate with other managers and 
provide a report to the project manager.
The main items in the planning and monitoring process are the 
following:
• Define project objective
• Define the work
• Define the work time period
• Define the available and required resources
• Define the cost
• Review and evaluate the master plan
• Accept the master plan
• Follow up execution
• Follow up cost
• Compare between actual work, cost, and master plan
• Evaluate 
performance
• Predict and change strategy
The definition of project management is illustrated in Figure 1.3. The 
first thing in management is to identify the target of the project man-
agement process as in the planning, execution, and follow-up. There 
are two factors that affect and/or are affected by resources: time and 
funding.
The following is a summary for all the tools available to the project 
manager for managing the project for success.
1.5.1 Define the Project Target
Identify the objectives of the project in the first phase of the planning 
stages. The project objectives must be defined from the beginning, such as 
the completion of the project in less time or a reduced cost.

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For projects on the technical side, we must identify the possible output 
or final words of the basic components of the project.
1.5.2 Define the Scope of Work
The required work should be defined precisely as it is in the basic plan 
for the project in three main areas: determining the work required, the 
resources and budgets for the work, and the time required for the imple-
mentation of the work. So, it is clear that the success of the planning 
process as a whole depends, to a large extent, on the identification of the 
work.