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monitoring the key project features, like HSE (Health were mobilized to Tecnimont Head Quarter, main
Safety Environment), quality, schedule, cost control operating center, in a common task force dedicated
and site performances. In addition, two representatives exclusively for the project. Having Project Management,
from the top management of both companies Engineering, Procurement and Project control teams
constituted the joint venture Steering Committee and located in the same building allowed for a better
acted as sponsors of the project to interact with the communication and simple coordination.
top management of the client and to ensure that the
project is moving in the right direction and pace. Tecnimont ICB (Mumbai)
Considering the know-how and capability of Tecnimont
in the petrochemical process and potentiality of the The detailed engineering on the basis of basic design
Korean market, the initial split of work between developed by Tecnimont Milan team was executed by
Tecnimont and Samsung Engineering has been done in the fully owned subsidiary of Tecnimont in India,
a “horizontal” way, with both companies involved in all Tecnimont ICB (TICB) with headquarters in Mumbai in
the 5 Units, in particular: Western India. Around 350 engineers were involved in
the detailed design engineering phase in TICB and their
Tecnimont (Maire Tecnimont Group) contribution was an important milestone in the project.
• 100% of engineering works for the 5 Polyolefins Tecnimont Planung und
Units; Industrieanlagenbau TPI (Salzgitter)
• procurement activities with the exception mainly The design and engineering of the High Pressure
of the static equipments expected to be awarded Process Technology of LDPE Unit were performed by
to Korean vendors; engineers coming from Tecnimont owned subsidiary in
Germany, with immense experience and knowledge in
• construction and commissioning supervision: key this specialized field.
positions with high expertise, including field
engineering team to properly support the Korean Operating Center (Seoul)
construction team;
The key functions performed in this operating center
• commissioning execution of LDPE Unit, being a called KOC (Korean Operation Center), where Samsung
very specialized task where the process knowhow headquarters are located, were mainly procurement
of Tecnimont gained through years of experience and expediting activities for static equipment and other
was essential; bulk items, normally purchased by contractors in the
Far East highly competitive markets. The knowledge of
Samsung Engineering Samsung Engineering in this specific task proved to be
cost effective.
• procurement activities of mainly static equipments
and some bulk items, where the Korean and Far Site Operating Center (Ruwais)
East markets playing a key role in this respect;
Construction activities were managed and controlled
• main construction supervision for all the Units; by a Single Operations Center (SOC) with base at the
• commissioning execution of the 4 Polyolefin Ruwais site. All the construction subcontracts were
handled and managed by this location. The joint
Units; venture PMB, which operated from Milan in the
engineering and procurement phase moved to SOC
The Operating Centers involved for the execution of the once those activities were substantially completed.
project engineering, procurement and construction Also the personnel of client and PMC moved to site at
phases were distributed all over the world as the same time.
represented in the figure 1.
Complexity of the project
Operating centers
Borouge 3 petrochemical complex consists of 5
JV Business office in (Malta) independent Process Unit converting ethylene derivates
into plastic pellets, packed by product handling facilities
The heart of the administration of the joint venture was either into 25 kg plastic bags or into 40 feet dedicated
located in La Valletta, Malta.
Milan Operating Center (Milan)
Project teams of Tecnimont, few representatives of
Samsung Engineering and Borouge / Bechtel teams
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