'People Deficit' Likely To Cause Further Delay Through 2010

摘要

Large oil and gas production projects worldwide are likely to continue to suffer delays owing to an expanding shortfall of qualified project engineering resources. Compared with the estimated number of staff needed to deliver projects, there could be a potential 10-15% "people deficit" by 2010, according to an analysis by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), an IHS Inc., companyrnCERA's conclusion is based on a comprehensive analysis of the engineering and project management staff needed to deliver the over 400 major projects expected to come onstream over the next five years. This demand analysis was then compared to the current and expected future staff available for upstream projects from all major international and regional engineering and project management contractors.