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Modularization Driven

Approach: Rethinking

the Project Organization

Experience of Foster Wheeler in executing a world-scale

modular project within a multicultural and multicenter
execution strategy

Franco Biondi
Foster Wheeler Italiana

of which Foster Wheeler is one:
the other two ECs are a Far
East holding and a local engi-
neering company. The ECs are
from dissimilar countries and
cultures and are characterized
by diverse business execution
methods. Such a combination
of players was indispensable
to addressing the complexity of
the project, to satisfy the con-
tractual requirements (which
imposed a local component)
and provide reasonable fnan-
cial capacity to sustain a de-
manding effort.
Following various considera-
tions, including a limited work-
force available in the country,
beneft in terms of schedule,
reduction of hazardous wor-
The participation in a complex oster Wheeler is currently engaged in king conditions and logistic facilities (the refnery
refning project as member of an the execution of a world-scale refnery can be easily equipped with a multipurpose of-
international consortium, gave the expansion (effectively a new refnery) foading berthing infrastructure), the consortium
opportunity to Foster Wheeler to (fgure 1). The project location is in selected modularization as one of the main dri-
implement best practices in terms South America, adjacent to the sea, vers for the project’s success. Consequently a
of cooperation and work-sharing. At Fand Foster Wheeler is undertaking vast and ambitious preassembly program was
the same time, the execution being detailed engineering, procurement support and developed to provide the working teams of each
based on a modular approach,
it allowed the development of a construction management. The contract was EC with common tools and procedures to exe-
modularization plan and strategy awarded by a national oil company, involved in cute the job.
whose benefts are evident in the several upgrading and improving programs of its The modularization approach and multicenter
ongoing detail execution phase. current refning capacity, to a consortium of th- execution scheme were therefore the key chal-
ree companies (Execution Companies or ECs), lenges of the project.

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