Petrobras 36
The P36 Offshore Oil Platform was the largest floating production platform in the world prior to its sinking in March, 2001. The platform was owned by Petrobras and the sinking is attributed to a complete failure in Quality Control and is oft cited as such.
The following quote is provided on the benefit of cutting QA and inspection costs:
Petrobras has established new global benchmarks for the generation of esceptional shareholder wealth through an aggressive and innovative program of cost cutting on its P36 production facility.Conventional constraints have been successfully challenged and replaced with new paradigms appropriate to the globalized corporate market place. Through an integrated network of facilitated workshops, the project successfully rejected the established constricting and negative influences of prescriptive engineering, onerous quality requirements and outdated concepts of inspection and client control. Elimination of these unnecessary straitjackets has empowered the projec's suppliers and contractors to propose highly economical solutions, with the win-win bonus of enhanced profitability margins for themsleves. The P36 platform shows the shape of things to come in the unregulated global market economy of the 21st Century.
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