During the equipment commissioning operation for the project’s steam turbine unit, a system error triggered an unscheduled shutdown of the lubricating oil pumps causing damage to the turbine shaft. The damage was such that the entire unit required replacement, although the Insured was able to carry out in-situ partial repairs to allow for temporary operation until the new unit could be procured.
CCi was instructed to carry out a delay analysis on the project schedules to determine to what extent the incident delayed the Project Commercial Operation Date (COD). In carrying out the analysis, CCi used contemporaneous project records and construction schedules to identify several additional commissioning activities in the post-incident period that were not forecast at the time of the incident. CCi’s analysis of these activities is ongoing, focusing on whether the project would have experienced any delay to the forecast COD had the lube failure incident not occurred.
