Described activites are to be referred to the development of Bir Berkine and Bir Berkine North (BBK & BBKN) production fields, located in Algeria, performed by ABB PS&S for Sonatrach.
Against to what was originally planned, in place of generic support for the development of the instrumentation engineering activities implied within the project, duties normally covered by the Project I&C Leader position were carried out: this is occurred due to repeated changes of the project task force arranged by the Client and its operational needs. Due to such reasons, since the early stage of the project, all duties and activities normally implied by that position have been carried out, of course, at the Client's premises, as follow:

 - project task force coordinated activities, related to all instrumentation field aspects;
 - Project Engineer coordination, and less often, with  the Project  Manager;
 - meetings periodici interdisciplinari per definizione schedula attività e verifica avanzamento;
 - meetings with End Customer (was a team of Resident Engineers within Client's premises);
 - human resources managment for all instrumentation aspects, with Customer's  I&C Manager;
 - external human resources (for instrumentation), management and supervision (outsourcing);

In addition to mentioned project management, however, it have also been proceeded with the operational development of several project documents like the followings:

 - Specification Technique du Système de l'Instrumentation;
 - Specification Technique pour l'Instrumentation des Units Package;
 - Specification Technique du Comptage Multi-Phase de Debit (MPFM);
 - Specification Technique Cuvées Enterrées pour RTU;

and the normal verification activities of produced project literature like, for example:


 - P&ID verification for the instrumentation competence aspects (tagging, simbology, etc.),;
 - outsourcing produced documents verification (Data Sheets, layouts, etc.);
 - SDV e BDV valves pneumatic command typical layout definition;
 - tecnical evaluations verification, as also check of several further project documents.

Moreover, for all plant packages being interested for instrumental aspects, (e.g. the relevant gas compression package), all the meetings with Vendors have been attended (taking care also for the technical evaluation of some of them, like, for example, the multiphase flow meter MPFM), ensuring, for some of them, that all instrumental aspects, since the preliminary stages of Vendor selection, up to subsequent phases of the kick-off meeting and follow-up, have been properly faced and met.   In a second project phase, only after an almost complete performing of the field instrumentation tasks and duties, it has been required to also cover the tasks related to the coordination and follow-up to the supply of the plant control system (splitted into DCS, ESD, F&G and Scada, followed, in the early stage by another senior instrumental engineer), due to a new and changed arrangement of the Client's project task force, which occurred during the latest final stage of the project.