University Project Report: Trans-Saharan Mega Project Management

This report offers a detailed examination of the Trans-Saharan mega project, focusing on its background, project management, and complexities. It explores project and program management principles within the context of this large-scale undertaking, addressing complexities in business, organizational, and commercial environments. The report delves into stakeholder priorities, including government and private entities, and analyzes biases, strategic misrepresentation, and phase-by-phase management. Supply chain management, strategic risk management, governance, cost/time control, and change management are also discussed. The report includes lessons learned, gap analysis, benefits and value management, and sustainability considerations, concluding with an overview of the project's challenges and potential. The report also highlights the involvement of key stakeholders such as NNPC, Sonatrach, and the governments of Nigeria, Niger, and Algeria, as well as the pipeline's potential impact on European gas supplies.

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Name of the Student
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Background......................................................................................................................................2
Body.................................................................................................................................................3
Project Management and Programme Management in Mega and Complex
Projects/Programmes...................................................................................................................3
Complex Business, Organizational and Commercial Environment............................................5
Multiple Stakeholders priorities and complexities – dealing with Government and Private
Entities.........................................................................................................................................6
Optimum Bias..............................................................................................................................7
Strategic Misrepresentation of the inherent benefit and value of this Mega Project...................7
Complexities in Phase by Phase Management – Whole Life Cycle Approach...........................8
Supply Chain Management (Strategic Procurement and Strategic Purchasing).........................8
Strategic Risk Management.........................................................................................................9
Governance..................................................................................................................................9
Cost/Time Control Practices......................................................................................................10
Change Management.................................................................................................................11
Lessons Learnt and Lessons yet to be learnt.............................................................................11
Gaps Analysis............................................................................................................................12
Benefits and Value Management...............................................................................................13
Sustainability.............................................................................................................................13
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................14
References......................................................................................................................................15

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Introduction
This report will provide a brief understanding regarding background of the project.
Discussion regarding project management and program management will be made as per
processing of the mega and complex project management. I will discuss about complexities that
are present in business organization. Organizational and Commercial environment. Will also be
discussed in report. I will discuss about e stakeholders and their priorities as per their
complexities. This section will also discuss about Government and Private Beings. Optimum bias
of the project will be again discussed by me in this report. Strategic misrepresentation of inherent
benefits of project will also be provided. I have discussed about multiple stakeholder analysis. I
have discussed regarding optimum bias that performed present in the commencing of Trans-
Saharan project. Complexities that are present in Trans-Saharan project gets also stated in report.
Supply chain management processes that are to be performed are also stated in report.
Governance of project that are to be followed for efficient completion of project are also stated.
The cost that gets required for completion of project of Trans-Saharan project gets also stated in
report that gets created by me. Change management gets also performed in this report. Lessons
learnt that are to be learnt will also be stated. Gap analysis of literature will also be provided.
Benefits and value management that are to be provided will also be performed in this report.
Benefits and value management will be performed in this report. Sustainability will also be
performed as per commencement of report.
Background
Project is to be performed as per commencement of collaboration among Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Algerian national oil and Gas Company. In the
year of 2009, NNPC and Sonatrach got aligned in commencing of pipeline project. The

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feasibility of entire process is performed as per commencement of business management system.
It is expected that the entire business management will start its initiation phase via Warri region
that is present in Nigeria. The volume of pipeline is expected to be carrying natural gas worth 30
billion cubic meters. The span of pipe is estimated to be 48 to 56 inches. It is estimated that
pipeline will be processing from year 2015. NNPC and Sonatrach are major investors and
partners of project. It is expected 90% of total project shares are owned by NNPC and Sonatrach.
Niger is considered to be having a 10% of total shares of project. The consideration that are
processed in this venture includes nations namely Nigeria, Niger and Algeria. The direction of
processing is about South north direction. The initiation of project will start from location of
Warri that is located in Nigeria. The end point of project will be based in Hassi R Mel that is
based in Algeria. The type of gas that is dealt with in this scenario is natural gas. The partners of
project includes likes of Sonatrach, NNPC and Government of Niger. The length of pipeline that
is to be framed will be 4128 kilometers. The maximum discharge pipe will be able to provide
includes 30 billion cubic meter per year. In 1st phase main aim that is to be provided includes
processing pipeline will be serving e Europe. The funding process is divided in 2 parts, namely
beginning of grapple as per the corruption that is present in energy sector and other subheading
finding of way that is required for neighbors to pacify route that will be followed for
commencing of project. Despite the proper planning process, the main instance that is present is
that the militant group has been opposing the project completion. This completion of the project
incurs the fact that proper planning is needed to be made for mitigating the issue.

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Body
Project Management and Programme Management the Mega and Complex Projects
The rules that are to be implemented in processing of venture management of Trans
Saharan Mega project includes accessing of performance that has been already performed. I have
performed projection of learning of different project sectors of the Trans Saharan Mega project.
After this section risk that gets present in commencing of project will be calculated. Site visit
will be performed in circumstance of Tran’s Saharan project. Flexibility and adaptability of
unforeseen options gets also taken into consideration by me. I have performed integrated client
contractor teams and perform partner collaboration. Exploring options that are present are also
performed by me. In initiating part of project management process, the, main aspect that will be
occupied into deliberation gets that planning regarding the Trans Saharan Mega project
execution gets made. This ensures that time that will be required for accomplishment of Trans
Saharan Mega project will be performed. A proper estimation of time that will be required for
execution of the project will ensure that roadmap process will be implemented in processing of
Trans Saharan Mega project. In execution phase, this process will be performing assigning team
members as per their expertise. After this stage, monitoring and controlling of same indicates
fact that controlling of changes that are required in the project will be made. After this stage,
project closure will be made. Outstanding contracts and paperwork’s have been one of major
aspect that benefits functional process of data management system.
As per program management of Trans Saharan Mega project, initially standards are set
that will be compared with Trans Saharan Mega project at every level. This gets one of the major
aspect that proper management of data functioning will be performed. With help of
implementation of standards, main aspect that will be taken into consideration gets that I will be

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comparing functional process of Trans Saharan Mega project with the similar stage of that of the
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. The main reason of comparing with Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline
gets that it has been one of costliest pipe line project. This gets one of main aspect that
processing of stages of Trans Saharan Mega project comparison will ensure that issues that are
present will be well understood and I can take steps against issues. Policies will be implemented
after analyzing issues that are present. This ensures that training provisioning will be stated. This
training will be provided as per commencing of changes that are to be brought in. The resources
processing will be calculated as requirement of Trans Saharan Mega project. After all these
stages processing and the execution stage will start.
Complex Business, Organizational and Commercial Environment
The industry complexity induces fact that processing of data administration of Trans
Saharan Mega project will ensure fact that industry complexity gets present in system. The
outcome of project that gets required for commencing of project incurs fact that output of the
Mega project gets highly complex. The requirement that are obligatory for proper
accomplishment of development incurs fact that ingredient for gaining output and steps that are
to be taken for getting a proper output will be processed as per commencing of steps that are
required for completing the mega project gets highly complex. In commencement of the, total
cost that gets required for completion of project incurs fact that cost that will be required for
commencing of the project gets $ 20 billion. This ensures that cost that gets incurred in the
processing of the business management will be performed. This high complexity ensures that
proper management that is to be performed as per investment, it is expected that the project gets
performed in a manner that will enhance proper management of functional process. This is one
of the major aspect that provides higher complexity to the project. As per the commencing of the

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pipeline project, complexity has been very high in terms of management. Communication in
between the stakeholders have been getting affected as the number of stakeholders present in the
project is very high. This insists that management of the [project needs to be performed with
higher integration.
The organizational environment that gets taken into consideration gets that the forces that
are processed as per institution of surrounding of organization affects the processing of business
management will be performed as per commencing of data organization of Trans Saharan Mega
project. Hence this will be performed as per concerned with the functional process of employees.
This ensures the fact that employees in organization needs to be having a proper understanding
of data set that will be helping in better commencing of the business management system.
Maintaining organization culture has been getting higher importance. This enhancement of the
organizational culture has been responsible for better understanding of steps that are required for
commencing of the pipe line construction project. This has been a major aspect that proper
management of the business organization and hence proper understanding of business
management will be made with the help of communication in between the employees of the
project. This enhances the fact that proper understanding of project management will be
performed for better completion of project.
As per commercial environment management gets concerned, the main issue that gets in
use as per identification of development of business processing the Trans Saharan project. Policy
development of Trans Saharan Mega project will also enhances functioning of the commercial
management in between reflected terms and hence processing of external relationship will be
enhanced. Trading relationship management of employees of Trans Saharan project are also
taken into consideration of the trading relationship. Commercial management of the project

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imbibes the fact that the projects will be requiring proper management of the transaction of the
entire system. with increasing the processing of the commercial evacuation the project will get
performed in a better manner.
Multiple Stakeholders priorities and complexities – dealing with Government and Private
Entities
The stakeholders that are concerned in Trans Saharan Mega project includes Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation. 45 % of share gets owned by this organization. Republic of
Niger gets a minor stakeholder with having a 10 % of share of the project. Sonatrach SPA gets
another major stakeholder of project. The share percentage it possess 45 % of total share.
Russian gas companies Gazprom have also showed their interest in participating in this venture.
Eni SpA and Royal Dutch are also potential stakeholders of Trans Saharan Mega project. The
government of Algeria and Nigeria are determined to not include any European stakeholders.
The federal of Nigeria have been building a 2500 km gas pipeline. Nigeria has been thinking of
axing off Russian federation in as per undercutting Brussel’s unhappy dependence in the Russian
federation. Nigerian president has been spending $ 700 million and has been processing
functional benefit in construction process of pipeline.
Optimum Bias
The optimum bias that are present in Trans Saharan Mega project includes fact that it was
considered that project will get completed in a very fast rate. This conclusion of Trans Saharan
Mega project in a fast rate includes fact that accomplishment of the Mega project might also be
achieved. The stakeholders who are concerned were very much sure regarding the success of
same. The thought process of developing costliest pipeline project has been in process. Despite
this aspect several issues were foreseen in this process. This issue includes fact that militant

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organization of Nigeria has been providing with functioning of the Emancipation of Niger delta.
This ensures that money that will be invested in then project might go as wastage. Another issue
that was faced during execution of Trans Saharan Mega project, management of the business
management will be performed. Another issue that gets present gets that security threats of
Tran’s Saharan project gets extremely high. Even after completion of this project, constant
monitoring of the project gets required. This insists the fact that management of Trans Saharan
project will get difficult even after completion of project. This aspects ensure that cost that gets
estimated before completion of project gets higher and hence the planning process gets affected.
Strategic Misrepresentation of the inherent benefit and value of this Mega Project
Strategic misrepresentation includes the fact that inherent benefit of high budget
allowance the main issue that gets present gets the presence of militant society. Due to presence
of militant group main aspect that gets taken into contemplation gets that venture might fail and
hence the investment that will be made might go in vain.
Complexities in Phase by Phase Management – Whole Life Cycle Approach
Searching of skilled laborers will be the main complexity in the product design phase of
the whole life cycle approach. Estimation of required resources will be one of major complexity
of raw material extraction and processing phase. Presence of militants will be a major
complexity in product manufacturing phase of whole life cycle approach.
Supply Chain Management (Strategic Procurement and Strategic Purchasing)
In case of performing of the strategic procurement of Trans Saharan Super project,
conduction of internal need analysis will be performed. In this stage, reason of collection of a
particular set of data gets stated. This ensures the fact that proper management of procurement
strategy will be performed. After this stage, assessment of supplier market as per Trans Saharan

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project may get performed. Buying of raw materials will required for better understanding of the
instance will be performed. After this collection of the supplier information will be made. This
processing of collection of supplier information ensures that sellers of the required products of
Trans Saharan Mega project is to be plotted and hence project management will be performed.
Implementation of direct purchase method will be implemented. This gets one of major issue that
can be performed as per commencing of the selected suppliers. Implementation of the strategic
planning in Trans Saharan Mega project includes fact that planning, implementation, evaluation
and controlling of the purchasing decision can be made. This gets one of major reason that the
functional process will be performed as per functioning of long term goal. I feel that with help of
strategic procurement and the strategic purchasing approach, supply chain management can be
implemented in a better manner.
Strategic Risk Management
The aspects that will be considered as strategic risk management of Trans Saharan Mega
project includes the following: -
 Demand shifting of the consumers
 Changes based on the legal and regulatory aspect
 Pressure based in competitiveness
 Merger based integration
 Changes as per technologies
 Turn over made by senior management
 Stakeholder pressure

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The factors that affects strategic risk management of Trans Sahara Mega project includes
the Economic capital and Risk adjusted return on capital. In circumstance of the Trans Saharan
Mega project, the equity cost that deals with cost that gets required for covering of the
unexpected loss that was not calculated during processing of the cost scheduling. This process
will also help in analyzing the total cost of Trans Saharan Mega project. As per calculation of the
Risk accustomed return on capital, comprises the fact that data asset that will be provided will be
having a better calculation of income that will be made after removing tax amount. It gets
expected that income that will be made will be having high even after axing of the tax that will
be incurred in project.
Governance
The governance method that will be implemented includes the Oligarchy governance
methodology. This type of governance method will enhance functioning of the Trans Saharan
Mega project. This ensures that management process of Trans Saharan Mega project might be
dependent on a set of people who will be provided with higher integrity. A group of people will
be selected. This group of people ensures the fact that management of corporate and similarity
will be performed as per management of education and the corporate religious and political
control state. The set of people who will be governing entire business management as per their
skills. The skills that are required for getting into managerial squad implements the consideration
as per nobility of individual, education based on developing and construction of pipelines. This
governance strategy will implement a perfect blend in between the democracy as well as
dominance of the managerial board. The decision making can be performed in a way that
implements fact that proper planning will be made as the number of heads focused on processing
of decision making will get benefitted and decision can be made as per managerial board will be

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having discussion and communication among themselves regarding decision making as per
Trans Saharan Mega project.
Cost/Time Control Practices
Cost control practices that are to be made includes processing of proper planning of the
project before initiation. With help of planning of initiation process ensures that commencing of
data processing will be performed as per scheduled data set. This gets one of major reason that
processing of the data management will be performed as per commencing of resources that will
be required for completion of the Trans Saharan Mega project. Hence the understanding of tasks
that are to be performed will include fact that proper understanding of data set will be performed.
This gets one of main process that will help in bettering of standard estimation. Implementation
of the budgetary control tools will also act helpful in process. This gets one of major reason that
functional processing of the Trans Saharan Mega project will get enhanced as per cost control
observes.
Change Management
The change management process of Trans Saharan Mega project can be diversified in 3
headings. The headings are namely preparing for change stage. The phase 2 of change
management project gets concerned with managing changes that are being implemented. In
phase 3, reinforcement of the change gets taken into consideration. The main change that gets to
be brought in development of Trans Saharan Mega project gets that commencement of changes
on field of management gets requited. Proper planning gets needed to be performed for better
commencing of project management. This ensures fact that better understanding of resource that
will be required for completion of project will be performed. The cost that gets incurred in
construction project of Trans Saharan Mega project incurs that cost will get higher and efficiency

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of project also gets higher. These changes that are to be made are performed in Trans Saharan
Mega project are planned in the phase 1. In the phase 2 the execution of the project gets
performed. After the execution process, phase 3 will be performed.
Lessons Learnt and Lessons yet to be learnt
Instructions learnt from the Trans Saharan Mega project are as follows: -
Lesson 1: the 1st lesson that gets learnt in project incurs fact that project completion process gets
performed in a manner that cost that gets incurred cannot be decided in an accurate manner.
Despite proper estimation of cost that might be required will gradually increase.
Lesson 2: the 2nd lesson that gets learnt in process includes fact that better understanding of
importance of scheme organization in Trans Saharan Mega project gets made. With proper
understanding of infrastructure of development organization in this case will guarantee that
processing of management will be made.
Lesson 3: the 3rd lessons that I have learnt from Trans Saharan Mega project gets that only
budget processing gets not sole concern for project completion. Understanding of social issues
are also very important in this process. In this instance of Trans Saharan Mega project, funding
was never an issue but militant interruption was supposedly one of major issue
The lessons that are to be learnt includes fact that data management will be performed as
per commencing of business processing. Main processing that gets to be performed includes fact
that cost processing will be required to be performed. This incurs fact that data organization of
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Gaps Analysis
Gap analysis has been one of major aspect that will be requiring proper managing of the
communication process. This gets one of major issue that commencement of business
management will get performed as per communication of the entire system. In case the
processing of the data management of Trans Saharan Mega project gets to be performed main
proper communication in between stakeholders of the project gets required. This ensures fact that
commencement of project gets performed in a least efficient manners. This processing of
management as per communication process ensures that data management gets needed to be
performed for better completion of project. In case communication of stakeholders are not
performed in a proper manner, then circulation of data that are generated as per decision making
of higher authority will remain as an issue. This acts as a gap in Trans Saharan Mega project.
Another gap that gets present in functional process gets budget issue. The budget that gets
essential for achievement of venture gradually increases through process. This gets due to fact
that proper managing of business processing gets performed as per requirement of budget. This
excess need of budget acts as a major issue in commencing of execution of Trans Saharan Mega
project.
Benefits and Value Management
Benefits that will be gained after processing of Trans Saharan Mega project includes the
fact that a link in between the Nugeria, Niuger and Algeria will be established. This ensures that
natural gas distribution will be performed in a diverse manner. Another aspect that will be
present in commencement of project gets that south north direction will having their first pipe
line construction system that will be providing with transaction of natural gas. Another major
advantage that gets gained includes fact that nearly 30 billion cubic meters per year of natural

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gas will be transacted. Nigeria being largest oil exporter, main aspect that will be taken into
consideration gets that the proper utilization of natural gas will be made and not get wasted.
Another benefit that will be gained includes fact that flaring of natural gas have been getting
performed in a high rate. This ensures that almost 10% of the total natural gas gets flared. With
help of the constriction of pipeline main advantage that gets gained includes fact that better
storing of natural gases are made. This also ensures that wastage gets reduced.
Sustainability
Economic sustainability of project gets one of major aspect that provides improper
management of processing of data management system. This gets one of the major aspect that
ensures the fact that better understand ding of feasibility of the project gets under proper
management of business processing. In case feasibility Trans Saharan Mega project reduces
sustainability of venture will gradually decrease. Another aspect that will be taken into
consideration gets environmental factors. In case there gets a leakage in pipelines. The
magnitude of effect that will be generated will also be taken into consideration. This magnitude
affect will also decide viability of the scheme and hence sustainability of venture will also get
decided. Efficiency of project gets also considered as a sustainability factor of project. In this
case, main aspect that gets taken into consideration gets that management of project commencing
might take a huge time. This excess time requirement will enhance that cost that will be incurred
in processing of project will also increase. In case time that will be required for accomplishment
of Trans Saharan Mega project increases drastically budget of project will again increases. In
case cost that gets incurred in processing of conclusion of Trans Saharan Mega scheme exceeds
amount of profit that will earned after completion of Trans Saharan Mega project, sustainability
of venture decreases.

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Conclusion
From the above discussion it can be stated that functional process of the Trans Saharan
Mega project can be enhancing the fact that proper understanding of business management gets
required for proper completion of project. This ensures fact that proper steps are to be taken for
completion of the project. With proper understanding of the project and platform organization as
per the better execution of pipeline project will be performed. Complexity that are present are
also present in system. Discussion regarding optimum bias gets also performed in the report.
Strategic risk management along with then gap analysis ensures that better understanding of
issue that gets present for better processing of Trans Saharan Mega project might be analyzed.
This gets one of major reason that functional process Trans Saharan Mega project should be
analyzed ad better output will be expected. With the help of the project management and budget
processing tool, it is expected that the business management processing gets better. This ensures
that the data gathered in the functional process gets performed in a manner that will enhance the
success rate of the project. This increase in the success rate indicates that the execution of the
project gets performed in a better manner. This indicates that proper management of the
functional process of the management of the business organization. This has been helping in
bettering of the processing of the business execution. Presence of the militant groups might be
acting negative in execution of the project. With the presence of the militant group the main
aspect that is present includes the fact management of the project has been getting difficult. As
per the militant groups they will destruct the project. This has been a major concern in the
development part of the project.

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