Lean Methods Application to Frontend Petroleum Engineering Project

摘要

The application of lean methods is credited with successful project delivery in various industries. Organizations are attracted to lean methods because its concept can be customized to project specific requirements to identify and eliminate waste in the value stream. In the petroleum industry, lean has been successfully applied to projects in ‘execute’ and ‘operate’ phases. In spite of this, there is no wide spread application to frontend projects. To realize the opportunity to accelerate first gas date by a year, lean concept was adopted to mature XY field during its frontend phase. This presentation is aimed at sharing the influence of lean tools on the project and to strengthens the argument that lean can be applied to frontend projects renowned for high task uncertainty compared to projects in ‘operate and execute’ phases in the petroleum industry with low task uncertainty where lean methods currently thrive.