Project Management in the Oil and Gas Industry

7.4.4.1 Quality 
Assurance in the ISO
ISO 9001 gave details on the requirements of quality management systems. 
When there is a contract between the parties and the manufacturer who 
wants to display its capabilities, the emphasis is on its potential in design 
and manufacturing with high quality.
These requirements investigate the compatibility between the stages of 
design and manufacturing in terms of quality.

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The ISO 9001 shows a model for quality assurance during the design, 
development, production, and use of the product.
7.4.4.2 The Responsibility of the Contractor (Manufacturer)
The definition of manufacturer in ISO 9001 refers to the one who engages 
in the manufacturing or supplying of the product, as well as the one who is 
supplying the service required of it. In all references of study, control and 
quality assurance have been identified. In the case of construction projects, 
the company is the contractor for the establishment and implementation 
as well as the engineering office, which offers the service represented in the 
design and preliminary engineering drawings.
It is clear that the first responsibility during the process of TQM is the 
responsibility of the manufacturer. Whether that is the office- engineering 
consultant or construction company, they must make sure the plant and 
anything or everything that comes out through this foundation must 
match the specifications required by the owner or the party of the owner if 
the owner is represented in a company or institution.
The result became moving different products between countries and 
continents with free trade. Now there is talk that the world is smaller 
through international trade agreements and its attendant laws and mech-
anisms help the trade between countries, which now has an impact on 
the industry with its various types. So it rests with you to achieve the 
requirements of the open market, which has led to fierce competition 
among different companies in the field of construction. We find the 
presence and proliferation of offices, international consulting, or multi-
national contracting companies exist on the map of competition in the 
Arab world.
The competition between these companies stems primarily from the 
followers of quality assurance systems. In fact, the competition, conflict, 
and their interaction led to the presence of some different administrative 
regulations.
For comprehensive quality and emphasized quality control, work had 
been done to make these systems helpful for companies to deal between 
different countries. 
The overall quality assurance systems depend, basically, on customer 
satisfaction achieved by adequate revenues, which help them get a good 
reputation in world markets and allow them to compete. 
The knowledge of environmental requirements of the state may affect 
the quality of implementation and the return of the project since the 
designer designs piles on the basis that they are close to the residential 

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community and the work on these piles might exceed the permissible lim-
its of noise. Thus, it requires a change in design, such as the use of piles of 
discharge.
There are some basic steps that should be important to the company, 
which deliver the service to improve quality. The main steps include that 
the senior management level would be interested in the importance of con-
trol and quality assurance through comprehensive quality leadership.
The second step is that the management level would provide an atmo-
sphere that helps in dealing with the rules of quality assurance easily and 
make sure that all employees are following instructions and steps of quality 
assurance. These reasons are often constraints faced by the administrative 
level and they are raised by engineers and junior staff.
Senior management should pay close attention to the training process 
by organizing training courses for all the employees of an organization on 
the quality assurance procedures and technical labor in particular.
7.4.4.3 Responsibility of the Owner 
It is noted that many problems arise because of the bad quality of the final 
product or non-conformity of the project to the required specification, 
which is the fault of the owner or applicant because he or she may not 
have defined the desired product or specifications clearly. Therefore, the 
contractor must have all the required and completed data and this is the 
responsibility of the Consultant Office of the owner.
Figure 7.1 shows the relationship between the three parties: the owner, 
the contractor, and the consultant. Here, traffic is clear in the exchange of 
information and transactions, so if one party breaches the terms of quality 
he will affect the other parties.
Based on the specifications, the contractor or manufacturer shall deter-
mine the price and schedule based on the quality of the product itself and