Things never seem to slow down, particularly on your existingsubsea project. While all this activity is going on with the newoil zones, SIT issues, you and your team have to keep up with thedesign, procurement, fabrication, testing and installation scopefor the rest of the subsea project.
The latest problem involves the subsea connectors usedthroughout your project. Before you hired on, decisions were madeto use an older model so-called legacy connection system, which hadbeen used successfully in the past in this area by your company.This particular connection system had not been used in a long timeby anyone, and although this connection system load capacities wereknown, there has been a change to the API Standards that requireconnector load capacities be re-calculated using different methodsand factors. And while your new order for the old design connectionsystem was progressing for your project, the revised designcalculations were made, and they are sitting on your desk forreview. As your luck would have it, to general surprise thecalculations using the current methods proved the connector loadcapacities to be much smaller than previously shown in the legacyproject documentation, which was all that your company had when thedecision was made to use this system. Changing the connector systemto a different design is a last resort, as it would delay theproject by more than a year. You have been asked to investigatethis and recommend an action plan.
Question 1. What are the minimum ten keyconcerns here, and what are your recommendations for how toapproach this?
