Friday, April 21, 2006
Petrobras engineering
hehe - Brazilians are funny. They have an unfailing belief in their ability to make anything work - _anything_
They[1] claim to have invented volleyball, petrol-from-coal (uhm, Sasol?) and... bananas.
check this courtesy of skyline-technologies.com
Conventional constraints have been successfully challenged and replaced with new paradigms appropriate to the globalised corporate market place.
Through an integrated network of facilitated workshops, the project has successfully rejected the established constricting and negative influences of prescriptive engineering, onerous quality requirements, and outdated concepts of inspection and client control.
Elimination of these unnecessary straitjackets has empowered the project's suppliers and contractors to propose highly economical solutions, with the win-win bonus of enhanced profitability margins for themselves.
The P36 platform shows the shape of things to come in the unregulated Global market economy of the 21st Century."
End quote
Brazil also claim(officially, we read it in an in-flight magazine) to have the mot land dedicated to organic farming in the world - because the have re-classified the entire Amazon forest as land used for organic farming.
I love Brazil! Optimism is good.
[1] When I say they here I mean Anita's one host dad from Londrina.
They[1] claim to have invented volleyball, petrol-from-coal (uhm, Sasol?) and... bananas.
check this courtesy of skyline-technologies.com
A lesson for those who choose to see good engineering as an optional extra
Petrobras built the P36 Production Rig (Biggest in the world) as cheaply as they could by neglecting traditional engineering methods & standards.
The attached photographs, taken a few weeks ago, show the result !
The wisdom of buzzword engineering takes a tragic turn for the worse
-literally.
A press release from Petrobras last year.Quote ...
"Petrobras has established new global benchmarks for the generation of exceptional shareholder wealth through an aggressive and innovative programme of cost cutting on its P36 production facility.
Conventional constraints have been successfully challenged and replaced with new paradigms appropriate to the globalised corporate market place.
Through an integrated network of facilitated workshops, the project has successfully rejected the established constricting and negative influences of prescriptive engineering, onerous quality requirements, and outdated concepts of inspection and client control.
Elimination of these unnecessary straitjackets has empowered the project's suppliers and contractors to propose highly economical solutions, with the win-win bonus of enhanced profitability margins for themselves.
The P36 platform shows the shape of things to come in the unregulated Global market economy of the 21st Century."
End quoteBrazil also claim(officially, we read it in an in-flight magazine) to have the mot land dedicated to organic farming in the world - because the have re-classified the entire Amazon forest as land used for organic farming.
I love Brazil! Optimism is good.
[1] When I say they here I mean Anita's one host dad from Londrina.
// posted by werner @ 3:19:00 pm 
