Abstract:Since 1978, when the first subsea well in Campos Basin came on stream, more than 210 subsea trees, 22 subsea manifolds and 2000 kms of umbilicals plus flowlines have been installed and operated on this site. To achieve this universe, not only significant break-throughs in the applied technologies were necessary, but mainly the development of a management philosophy to guarantee an optimal cost/benefit relation had to be implemented.
Total Quality Control (TQC) was chosen for this purpose, and… Show more
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