Project management in the oil and gas industry / Управление проектами в нефтегазовой отрасли

The subject of project management has become one of the most common themes in the recent past, and that is due to the increase in the number of mega projects worldwide and the development of modern technology in all areas of knowledge, which requires new methods of project management to cope with fast-pace developing.

Oil and gas companies are clear examples of the difference between the concept of a project and daily routine operations. These companies, in most cases, have an operations department and project department and they should work together.

Therefore, project management is different from the daily activity in operation management. Thus, most books and references that discuss project management define a project as a number of tasks and duties to be implemented during a specific period of time in order to achieve a specific objective or set of specific targets. <...>