Improving Quality and Increasing the Efficiency of Construction and Installation Works of Objects Trunk Pipeline Transport in Russia

Abstract

For organizations which operate a system of pipeline transport of hydrocarbons, improving the quality of its construction means reducing the cost of diagnosis and repair, liquidity accidents and its consequences during operation, improving reliability, durability and environmental safety of facilities in service. Taking into account the increasing need for the construction of hydrocarbon pipeline transport systems in Russia, the issues of improving the theoretical approaches and methods of practical implementation of the tasks of improving its quality are getting particular relevance and importance. The most promising method for solving the problems of improving the competitiveness of products and services while reducing production costs is functional cost analysis (FCA). It is based on the following statement: each object is made or exists in order to meet certain needs (to perform its functions). It requires certain expenditures to create these functions in the object. It is obvious that if the functions are not needed, then the cost of their creation is also unnecessary. In the research we tried to show the advantages of using the FCA in the investment holding company “IHC “Tatgazinvest”, which carries out work on the gasification of industrial and social objects of the Republic of Tatarstan under the program of OJSC “Gazprom”. As a result, we revealed some functions where the share of costs exceeds its importance and represents zones of disproportions. It is also revealed that the decisive factor of disproportions zones appearance is the influence of secondary functions. The discovered areas of disproportions were analyzed in order to eliminate it. As a result of the analysis, we put forward proposals to improve the quality of construction and installation works and evaluated their organizational and economic importance.

Problems of improving the regulatory and methodological base of metrological support

“…In the extractive and processing industries the volume of production is determined with the help of measuring instruments. The basis of Russian exports traditionally are the goods of raw materials industry: oil and oil products, gas and electricity [3]. On successful functioning of this industry depends the provision of currency and tax revenues to the budget of the country.…”