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Muskrat Falls Project: Organized for Success
Gilbert Bennett, Vice President, Lower Churchill Project Canadian Hydropower Association Forum, May 14, 2015
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Muskrat Falls Project: Organized for Success Gilbert Bennett, Vice - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Muskrat Falls Project: Organized for Success Gilbert Bennett, Vice - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Muskrat Falls Project: Organized for Success Gilbert Bennett, Vice President, Lower Churchill Project Canadian Hydropower Association Forum, May 14, 2015 2 Muskrat Falls Project Focus is on providing the greatest long-term value to NL
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Muskrat Falls Project
- Focus is on providing the greatest
long-term value to NL
- Meeting our growing electricity needs
- Enhanced system reliability
- Providing long-term rate stability
- Eliminating our reliance on foreign oil
for electricity
- Practically eliminating GHG emissions
from the NL electricity sector
- Employment and economic benefits
- Significant, long-term revenue for NL
- Controlling our energy future
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Safety Management
- Creating a safety culture with transient workforce,
multiple contractors
- Comprehensive health and safety plans – both LCP
and contractors
- Work closely with contractors to enable success
– Approx. 25 H&S professionals on project team
- Detailed reporting and auditing safety performance
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Building a Safety Culture
- Key initiatives:
– Safety Net and the Use of Predictive Solutions – Safety Incentive (recognition) program – Established safety absolutes for all LCP worksites – Safety training at all site operations – Contractor safety forums – Collaborative working relationship with OHS and
integrated OHS committee
– Sharing of incident notifications, lessons learned and
incident summary reporting
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Managing Procurement
- Many opportunities for businesses in NL, Canada and around
the world
- Approx. 200 contracts managed through LCP procurement
team
- 500+ direct and indirect contractors
- To date approx. $800M invested in NL companies alone (over
half to Innu-owned businesses/joint ventures)
- Almost all contracts and PO’s issued for the project
- Successful procurement/contract management to date
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Logistics Management Around the World
- Materials shipped to rural/remote locations from
around the world
- LCP oversees material receipt, storage and control
- Established marshalling yards in Labrador and on the
island to hold and control delivery of transmission materials
- As of December 2014:
– > 45,000 MT shipped – 1,134 containers and 2,070 trucks
- Logistics for large materials (ex. generators and
turbines) require road/bridge closures for transport
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Ensuring High Quality
- Oversight, construction and manufacturing audits
- Review of management plans and processes,
readiness reviews
- Factory inspections
- Quality assurance at various factories, plants, and
testing and manufacturing facilities in 20 countries worldwide
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Technology & Working Remotely
- Enable and enhance communication across remote
locations
- Actively used in the field (environment, lands,
transmission clearing and construction crews)
– LCP Powerline: GIS program is interactive, displays info
specific to an inquiry, provides 62 map layers
- Pronto Forms: allows field personnel to immediately
submit reports via iPad app
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Organized for Success
- Project Management Team ensures effective
execution of the Muskrat Falls Project
- Primary activities include oversight, project controls,
audit integration, detailed engineering & design, project management, engineering, procurement, project services, and, and overall site and contractor management
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