Four-in-one Management System for the Overseas Project Technical Support of Chinese Petroleum Company
Shaojun Zhou, Yan Ma, Ruilin Guo · 2015
Based on the development situation of global oil and gas, Chinese petroleum companies have formulated the overseas business development strategy since 2003.A batch of oil and gas exploration and development programs were obtained in short time, and the overseas strategy layout was basically completed.After more than ten years development by leaps and bounds, especially the recent six years, Chinese petroleum companies have gradually entered into the stage of pursuing value growth and optimizing layout structure, and the focus of work has shifted from acquisition of new programs to the operation results of existing programs and the improvement of development quality and efficiency.Nevertheless, there are some problems in Chinese petroleum company, including unclear overseas technical support mode, low internationalized degree of management system and process, ambiguous key node of quality control, and weak multi-discipline and trans-department collaborative innovation ability.So the establishment of technical support management system that is suitable for overseas development is urgent.2 THEORETICAL BASIS "Four-in-one" management system adopts PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Action) management methods.PDCA cycle, also named Deming cycle [1,2], is the core idea of enterprise standardization construction and the criterion of standardizing enterprise behavior, which can make the management work run in cycle without a break.P (plan) means making work plan; D (do) means implementing established plan; C (check) means tracing and analyzing the implement condition; A (action) means taking measures to the planned results, and then turning into the next stage.The PDCA cycle is a process of continual improvement in program management, presenting stepwise upward trend.Some problems can be solved in each cycle, and then the program management can make advances in this process.PDCA cycle has good applicability for overseas technical support.Taking the support demands of overseas program as core work, through the requirements analysis and overall planning for overseas program support, "four-in-one" management system includes the below steps.Firstly (P), determining the main support content and the support mode.Secondly (D), establishing suitable management system and process, building collaborative innovation architecture, organizing the implementation of support.Thirdly(C), checking the Four-in-one Management System for the Overseas Project Technical Support of Chinese Petroleum Company