Project Management in the Oil and Gas Industry

Figure 5.2 Organization chart on site.
Project manager
Construction manager
Engineering
office
Quality
control
Planning
Technical
office

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5.3 Roles and Responsibilities of the Project Manager
The project manager is the key to the success of the project. His abilities 
can lead a team to success and not for a performance anomaly. Examples 
of the project manager’s responsibilities are as follows:
Supervise the preparation and project plans.
• Define the relations between the different parties to execute 
the project.
• Take the necessary actions and procedures to obtain the 
project resources.
• Organize work between departments and supervise and 
coordinate among them.
• Follow up the project activities and make appropriate deci-
sions to reform paths of execution.
• Monitor the costs and make decisions to ensure they match 
the plan costs.
• Take action to ensure the cash flows to and from the project 
is benefitting the project.
Ensure that the subcontractors are on the required level, and follow up 
their work.
• Preserve the rights of the company, which are represented in 
the contract, and oversee the administration of the contract.
• Send the deliverables for the project in a timely manner and 
review claims from the customer, which is the main way to 
know the degree of the project’s success.
• Establish a system of reports that links and coordinates the 
project internally, with the functions departments, and exter-
nally, with the project owners, consultants, local authorities, 
sub-contractors, and suppliers.
• Attend the meetings of the project at a strategic level, in 
general, and executive level sometimes.
• Develop a policy to encourage employees in the project.
• The project manager is primarily responsible for achieving 
the project plan in terms of time, cost, and quality and, thus, 
should have powers to test assistants and subordinates and 
make all decisions within the project, including those not 
inconsistent with the policy of the company head office, reg-
ulations, and laws.

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• Ensure good construction management of the project on 
site in terms of administration, subsistence, regulating traf-
fic, and securing the site and its employees against the risks. 
This will be achieved if the project manager is visiting the 
site on a regular basis. If the project manager was located 
away from the site, there has to be an appointed director of 
the project on site.
• Ensure that the materials and equipment work and are in 
compliance with specifications.
This makes it clear that the project manager is the conductor in the 
band. If there is any fault on his or her part to lead in the implementa-
tion of the business, the work will be done in a manner that is unsatis-
factory to the client. In addition, he or she is responsible for clarifying 
the objectives of the project and what is required of them in accuracy 
and clarity.
The following figure illustrates the usefulness of the consensus of group 
work, setting goals as the business runs smoothly for the project as a 
whole. The second figure illustrates what happens with non- compliance 
and a lack of clarity. Time will be wasted and that would result in increased 
costs.