SUMMARY

For any oil and gas piping project, the project manager, construction manager and QA/QC manager must understand the importance of this area. Depending on the size and complexity of welding required, the project manager and QA/QC manager must try to deploy a qualified and experienced welding engineer for the project to take care of this area.

As the complete oil and gas piping construction is based on welding, the right selection of welders, the welding equipment, the right consumables and the management of consumable issue controls need to be managed at site. Wrong welding procedures, consumables and equipment may result in delay as well as costly expenses.

Another important thing is that care should be taken to ensure the weld rejection rate acceptable limits. If the client insists on too stringent weld repair rate acceptable limits, then it is going to be a really difficult task for the contractor to achieve this.

Construction managers and piping construction engineers of oil and gas piping projects, together with the QA/QC discipline engineers, should ensure that only industry norms are applicable for the project.