Because the oil/gas industry has no lack of qualified people at this time? You don't understand how difficult it has been for a couple years to get enough qualified people for any large project.
You also are assuming that there is no change in cost. That is false. I've worked a couple 24/7 emergency rebuilds. It does not get done on a one to one scale any more than three pregnant women can have one baby in three months.
You are assuming fabrication, delivery of materials and engineered equipment all can happen three times as fast.
Again, if it could be done without cost, it would already be done. These companies don't spend billions of dollars waiting years for a single dollar in return for no reason at all. Do you really believe all of us people who run projects are stupid?
Thackney, the industry doesn’t normally run three shifts, so don’t come at me with the idiotic comment that if more shifts would be done if it could be. That’s nonsense and we both know it.
When we had our earthquakes out here in the 90s, we had many overpasses collapse. It was stated that we couldn’t get the job done for years. They went on triple shifts and the jobs did get done. The jobs were done by bid, and the jobs didn’t cost us an arm and a leg to get done. And guess what, people who hadn’t worked in the industry before, did a great job.
In the oil industry, not every person has to be a former or current worker in the industry. Those that have experience can supervise the rest. Those terminals have a lot of grunt work that needs to be done too.
Why don’t you be a little more realistic with your responses? You flat out refusal to admit shifts could be added and the job completed sooner is transparent.
Shipments can be increased. Supplies can be delivered it the daytime to be used on the other shifts.
All it takes is a matter of planning and follow through.
Yes, there are probably things that I don’t understand and you do. I still think we live in the land of ingenuity, and when a big need comes up, we can surprise ourselves.
I simply do not believe nothing could be done to speed up the process.