Engineering PPM Journey

Overview

The panel discussion is about the Project of the Future session and Intelligent Production. Intelligent Production is a system that is able to self-organize and self-optimize. It builds on the capabilities of IoT sensors and wireless networks to collect data and quickly optimize the production system, controlling it without the need for manual decision-making. The panelists discuss the blend between mechanical engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence, and construction and how it’s going to change the traditional trade contractors’ job. The project of the future looks like having a better understanding and transparency of the process of construction from start to end, making decisions based on data and facts, and not on feel.

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Speakers

Craig Evans
Craig Evans
Chevron

Craig Evans is currently the Senior Advisor, Operations Science for Chevrons Capital Projects function supporting all aspects of operations science application within Chevron’s global Capital Projects portfolio and function.

Previously Craig was the Project Production Performance Manager at Chevron Project Resources Company (PRC), deployed to the Future Growth and Wellhead Pressure Maintenance Project in Kazakhstan. Craig has spent 30 years in Chevron’s capital projects organization and has held a variety of roles.

Craig has been responsible for Chevron’s implementation of project production management (PPM) on the Future Growth and Wellhead Pressure Maintenance Project. Prior to this, Craig was responsible for deployment of Chevron’s project management system across the portfolio of major capital projects in Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East.

He has held numerous technical and leadership positions across Chevron’s upstream enterprise including; Business Manager for an integrated offshore gas development, pipeline and onshore power plant; Business Manager for a grassroots LNG Project and Deputy Project Director for Chevron’s Europe, Eurasia and Middle East. Craig holds a Master of Business Administration from Deakin University and recently completed an Artificial Intelligent program at the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School.

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