With reference to a petrochemical complex in Asia, this paper explains how companies working together on a project are organised and how they interface with each other. This paper aims at describing the organisation and project management of a major engineering and construction project.
Reference is made to a real case.
We shall demonstrate that, in complex projects, it is not enough to consider separately the organisation of each Contractor, while it is most important to study how the various organisations interact each other in order to create a single, multiple and complex organisation to run the construction site. The project referred to was relevant to the engineering and construction of a major, integrated petrochemical plant in an extra-European country, whose development was at a medium level and whose economic system was mixed. In this country, the oil and petrochemical sector was part of the planned, centralised and state-owned economy. The project was studied to be completed in different phases, in order that phase one could have been put in operation while phase two was still under construction and phase three still through the engineering process. To be noted that, at that time, the political risk of the country was still high.