I thought I had seen bad examples of people taking credit for the work of others but BTC puts everyone else to shame! Next level they are! It is so routine with them that it is almost like they have been told to do it. I guess it must be cultural?
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What do you expect for 1/8th the cost and 1/8th the productivity?
I don’t know. KLTC claiming they single-handedly restarted all the Baytown units after the 2021 freeze was pretty brazen.
@j1+1jrnpc7rc nowadays, that response will get you straight to NSI. Courage of conviction is to be eliminated now.
Keep your own tracking of "rework" items especially those that are considered "critical S/H/E" reworks.
Thirty years ago we had a process known as SATCON that was commercialized in the Ingolstadt refinery. 15+ Subject Matter Experts in ExxonMobil Research and Engineering documented by email to the Project Executive and Managers that the resid upgrading process would not work. The Project Executive and Engineering Manager(s) ignored the SME's concerns. When the SATCON process was commercialized, it failed at Ingolstadt and had to be written off as a non-starter. The CEO Lee Raymond requested an internal investigation of the failure. The 15+ subject matter experts forwarded their emails to the "independent" investigation team. When the Project Executive and Engineering Manager(s) had to present their findings to CEO Lee Raymond on what went wrong, Lee's response was "You sold me a pig in a poke."
The SME's walked away with documentation that they had done their job. The Project Executive and Engineering Manager(s) careers had platued after Lee's "Pig in a Poke Comment".
Bottom line, document by email to yourself and line management, the systemic engineering concerns that you had. You will need those emails someday.
@cx what's stopping you from doing that? We should be comfortable stating and stewarding objectively when last line of defense catches something significant that we should not be accept relying on.
Every piece of work that I have encountered from BTC required rework.
Some work was so bad that I should have reported a near miss.
Rework of BTC deliverables is forbidden to be tracked.
They are ethically questionable at best. Beyond that they are very far removed from things and most don't know what they're doing so they almost have no choice but to do it.