Smiley N. Pool/Chronicle
Reliant Stadium might be big, but building it paled in comparison to the effort required to bring some of today’s global oil and gas projects online. |
Building Reliant Stadium was a big project, right? Not when you compare it to some of the massive oil and gas projects being built around the world today.
Thierry Pilenko, chairman and CEO of Technip, a global engineering and construction firm serving the oil and gas industry, tried to put things into perspective today during a panel discussion at OTC.
He compared the costs and challenges involved in building Reliant Stadium to those of a current Technip project, building an LNG complex in Qatar.
Reliant cost more than $400 million to build, required 17,000 tons of steel and had 1,065 workers on site daily when construction was at its peak.
By contrast, the Qatar LNG project will cost $15 billion, require 137,000 tons of steel and employ 75,000 workers from 85 countries during peak construction, he said.
Yes, but can you play football at an LNG plant? I didn’t think so.
