Research on Process Management Innovation of Petroleum Drilling Engineering Project Based on Life-Cycle in China

Since the beginning of the 1980s, project management has been gradually implemented within China's petroleum drilling engineering. Recently, achievements have been made in the institutionalization, routinization and standardization of project management in petroleum industry. The sustainable development of petroleum enterprises has been ensured by process management, which based on the entire life-cycle of drilling project. In this paper, the life-cycle of large-scale petroleum engineering project has been analyzed. And relations between project life-cycle and project management process have been elaborated. Furthermore, the process management based on the entire life-cycle of drilling project has been established. The author believes that process management would be beneficial to the overall efficiency of oil and gas exploration and development.