Petro-Canada
Low Sulphur Projects
Steve Mancini
Project
Manager, Refinery Project Management, Petro-Canada
Aziz Barmania
Project Controls Manager,
Downstream Sector, Petro Canada
The speakers will present in
French/English with a visual presentation in English
RESUME: Last year Petro-Canada
and its contractors successfully completed the environmentally driven Low
Sulphur Gasoline project, earning the
award of “Industrial Project of the Year 2003” by the Consulting Engineers of
Quebec. On it heels comes the Low
Sulphur Diesel
project with product to be on the market by June 1, 2006. These projects are
carried out to meet the new standards of Environment Canada.
Many challenges and
opportunities are revealed through the realization of the different phases of
these projects. The following points will be discussed in the presentation:
Health & safety, Environmental regulation, Challenges and Opportunities, Project
Phases, Estimating (Icarus) and applying Lessons Learned
Meeting
Montreal
Section of AACE International
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
The
Management of Contingency and its Risk on EPC Projects
AACE
International Montreal section is proud to bring to its members and prospect
members a panel made of high profile practitioners to discuss the above subject.
We all know
how difficult and controversial this subject can be, simply because it is
handled from different views by different people and under different
circumstances. One of the good descriptions is: "Contingency is measured in
the eye of the beholder".
Therefore, we
have assembled a panel of four highly qualified experts representing three main
stakeholders related to most EPC projects; Owners, Contractors and Consultants.
The total
presentation is estimated to a max of 1 ½ hours. Audience will be
introduced to the standards and definitions adopted in the industry today guided
by the AACEI’s S&K and PMI’s BOK recommendations. This will be followed
by 15 minutes presentation by each of the above panel members and finally
Q&A and discussion period.
Panel
Members:
Dr.
O. Moselhi - Chairman of Department of Building, Civil and Environmental
Engineering - Concordia University
Mr.
Rick Geren, VP Aluminerie Alouette - Phase II Project
Mr.
Adam Malkhassian, VP and Chairman of Risk Evaluation Committee, SNC-Lavalin Inc.
Mr. Haitham Kamil – Lead Cost
Engineer, Aluminerie Alouette Phase II, Hatch Associates
Moderator:
Mr.
George Baram; Project Manager, SNC-Lavalin Inc.
Software
Applications
Speaker: Daniel R. Boyd, P.Eng., M.Eng.,
President of Proji-Contrôle Inc.
This session, which will feature a demonstration of
Primavera’s Expedition and Prime Contract software applications, will explore
how Project Management and Cost Engineering professionals can benefit from the
latest enhancements in Project Management Software. Topics discussed will
include:
- Manage budgeted, committed, actual costs and funding
- Forecast, anticipate and resolve contract changes and modifications
- Identify what impact a change will have on your project costs and
overall schedule
- Manage drawings with latest revisions created, distributed and
tracked. Track drawings through Design Review to As Built
- Relate Costs, Drawing management and Submittals to P3e schedules
- Manage construction contract communications, including transmittals,
meeting minutes, RFI's, e-mail and more
- Build in automated workflow and routing of documents across the web
Alma
Smelter Project
Speaker: Mr.
Magdy Boghdady, Eng. Deputy Project
Manager, Bechtel Quebec Inc.
The
Alma Greenfield Smelter was a very successful project. At a capacity of
400,000t/year it was completed on schedule, started up very rapidly to full
production and was completed at an annual cost per ton lower than three
equivalent AP30 technology projects, built in the past 8 years. There were many firsts on the Alma project,
which was Alcan’s most ambitious smelter construction project to date.
Alcan’s objective was to build the worlds most modern and performant smelter
and the outcome has been very positive in the technical system design area,
construction execution and start-up of smelter operations.
The
Smelter was completed at a cost of 1.6 billion US $. An additional
200M$ was spent by Alcan on infrastructure improvements to local rail and High
Tension overhead lines and substations; hydroelectric power plants, Alumina and
secondary transformation facilities.
This
technical meeting will introduce the audience to the many challenges that were
successfully dealt with during the project execution, including labour issues
involving structural steel / mill wright workers inter-trade rivalry, which
caused some work stoppages; failure of the unions to live up to the project
agreement negotiated with Alcan. Another challenge was in the development of the
new breakthrough technology and the advanced mechanization and automation
employed in the Rodding and bath / butt recycling areas, which negatively
impacted capital cost. All issues were resolved during the project within
planned start-up targets and all cost impacts are included in the 1.6 billion
US $ smelter total capital cost.
Living
With Uncertainty in Projects
Speaker: Roger Graves of
Davion Systems Ltd
It has been said that the only two certain things in
this life are death and taxes. In the project management world we can simplify
this: the only certain thing in project management is uncertainty.
Monte Carlo
simulation is a tool which can be used to examine the effects of uncertainty on
project costs and schedules. Central to this tool is a description, or model, of
the uncertainty associated with each individual cost item. However, if the model
does not correspond well to reality, the results of the simulation will be worse
than useless, they will be misleading. This presentation will look at the use of
open-ended models, which, under conditions of high uncertainty, correspond to
the real world much better than the more conventional models used in Monte
Carlo. An engineering project will be used to illustrate the effects of using
open-ended models as opposed to more conventional models.
Open-ended
models are beginning to be used in industry sectors such as EPCM, IT,
pharmaceuticals and defense. This presentation, which is based on a paper
published by the author in PM Network magazine (Dec 2001), was recently given to
the Ottawa Valley chapter of the PMI.
Revolution or Evolution
The end of
the twentieth century has brought us changes in the way in which we communicate
and approach the market place. The Internet has become an integral part of our
business strategy, we are encountering the development of electronic
marketplaces; both horizontal and vertical. What do these mean and how do they
impact the way we do business?
Do we risk
missing the inevitable trend by not participating in the new e-procurement
“global” economy and what are the risks associated with this strategy? What
are the advantages? Each corporation must establish an e-procurement strategy,
regardless as to whether they are participating as the Seller or the Buyer.
This
presentation will address the differences in the electronic market places,
discuss what is happening within the e‑procurement community, locally and
internationally. E-Procurement as a methodology will be reviewed and discussed.
(E-Procurement2.pps)
Speaker: Mr.
Allan Chinn - Manager of Operations and Technology, Procurement, SNC - Lavalin Inc.
Lavalin's
approach to Project
Management Show
Case
SNC-LAVALIN’S
APPROACH TO RISK
MANAGEMENT
Good
Risk Management is essential in today’s competitive markets. It provides
competitive advantage by permitting companies to take on increasingly difficult
projects. Risk Management provides added value to each proposal and project.
Therefore
a company must have a good Corporate policy regarding Risk Management which
should be applied to all of its proposals and projects.
This
presentation will show how SNC-Lavalin handles Risk Management within it’s
organization as well as the methods used to mitigate the risk on projects.
(Show.pps)
Speaker:
Adam Malkhassian, p.eng. Chief Cost
Engineer, SNC-Lavalin
Les marchés compétitifs
d’aujourd’hui rendent essentielle l’application d’une bonne gestion du
risque. La gestion du risque permet aux compagnies d’être plus compétitives
et d’entreprendre des projets toujours plus complexes. La gestion du risque
procure une plus-value à chaque proposition ou projet.
Voilà pourquoi une
compagnie doit se doter d’une bonne politique d’entreprise à appliquer à
toutes les propositions et à tous les projets
Cette présentation démontrera
comment est appliquée la gestion du risque chez SNC-Lavalin et quelles méthodes
sont utilisées pour diminuer les risques sur les projets.
Conférencier: Adam
Malkhassian, ing. – Chéf Ingénieur des coûts – SNC-Lavalin
Time
Management
- Costing and Billing Integration
Cedar Time Management is a solution designed for
project oriented companies to address key issuessuch as, data input validation,
the costing and billing of hours accurately, and the process of corrections and
rate changes efficiently.
With its ability to supply data to payroll,
resource scheduling based applications, human resources and financial systems,
Cedar Time Management provides a key element in a total Enterprise Business
Solution.
Speaker:
Jim Shuffleton, Director of business Development - Cedar Time Management of
Cedar Group. (Massachusetts, USA)
The
Virtual Office
Using The Internet Technology for Cost Engineers
and Project Management Practitioners
Project
Management in the 21st Century
This
meeting will focus on the Internet applications
for Project Managers and
Cost Engineers. It will explore how we can benefit from the latest advances in
E-Mail and Internet technology.
The
speaker will guide us from the initial trends of static web sites and simple E
mail into the latest trends of dynamic web sites and application-specific E
Mail. Also, introduction to the
“Push technology”, its benefits in terms of timely and efficient
communication and some of the available tools (Webster, Expedition express, E
Room) will be made.
The site of
the year -
Magnola Magnesium Plant Project
A
Total Cost Management (TCM) Approach
The Magnola Magnesium Plant Project, Currently at
the peak of construction in Asbestos, Quebec, is one of the foremost projects in
Canada and was named “Site of The Year” for 1999 by the ACQ (Association de
Construction de Quebec). When completed, it will be the world’s largest source
of Magnesium.
This
presentation will provide an overview of this unique project and discuss its
project controls organization, methods and computerized management system used
for a Total Cost Management (TCM) approach
including Scope, Schedule and Cost Control.
The Three Gorges
Hydroelectric Project
in
China
Three
Gorges is the largest water resources project currently under construction on
this planet.
It is a multipurpose project which will deliver benefits in flood
control, energy production
and navigation.
The
speaker will present a brief description of the project and its major
components, its construction schedule and financing. Additionally, the contract
obtained by AGRA Monenco Inc. and Its
current status and future prospects of work.
Speaker: Peter Mayers, Ing, V.P. Hydroelectric - AGRA Monenco
Introducing
the PMOffice
to Cost Engineers and Project Management practitioners
The
New Way of Project Management
This
AACE International meeting will focus on the Internet/Intranet project
management software which was the result of the partnership between SystemCorp
of Montreal and the Project Management Institute.
The
speaker will introduce the Internet method for managing and controlling multiple
projects under the guidance of the PMBOK (Project Management Body Of Knowledge).
A preview of PMOffice in action in its internet configuration will be presented.
Speaker:
Marty Burke, Director of project
management product Group of Systemcorp
- Ottawa office
