Project failures are all too common these days. With multiple vendors, immature software quality processes, less experienced personnel and complex, highly-integrated control systems, it is no surprise that today’s ever-tightening deadlines are often missed.  In order to reduce project delays and non-productive time (NPT), Athens Group’s Project Managers work with your team and your vendors to help ensure that your equipment is high-quality and that it is delivered and installed on time.

From contract requirements to acceptance testing to operations, we will provide comprehensive management of your project, including:

  • Reviewing all project-related technical documentation (schematics, drawings, Functional Design Specifications, Factory Acceptance Testing and commissioning procedures, etc)
  • Assessing vendor schedules
  • Producing a right-sized project plan
  • Monitoring project progress and timelines
  • Working seamlessly with vendors to minimize schedule slips and develop risk mitigation strategies
  • Tracking issues to resolution
  • Providing you with high visibility into each phase of your project via our Real-Time Risk AssessmentSM Scorecard

How We're Different

We wrote the book on software quality, literally – our CTO, Don Shafer, is the author of Quality Software Project Management and our Project Managers have:
  1. Prior experience providing project management services on newbuilds, refurbs, and upgrades for the industry’s leading drilling contractors and operators.
  2. The ability to apply lessons learned on other rigs to your next project, thus enabling quicker and more accurate identification of potential failures and recommendations for effective mitigation.
  3. The experience and communication skills necessary to reduce the finger-pointing that inevitably shows delivery and reduces the quality of your asset.

Failure Point Example *

A PLC software RPM limit was set incorrectly, resulting in the catastrophic failure of the Drawworks. Comprehensive Project Management would have ensured that necessary software standards were incorporated during the design phase – preventing such a disastrous failure.
* All Failure Points are issues we have identified on multiple rigs on which we have worked