Patel, Vishal Rasiklal (2016) Relationship and other Advanced Contracting Process. Coursework Masters thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
The most prevalent form of contracting in the construction sector, and particularly, the oil and gas industry is the traditional contracting. This contracting is fraught with many problems, the most prominent one being the adversarial approach that is used by the owner and the contractor towards each other. The drawbacks that are associated with the traditional contracting forms have led to the development of amicable contracting methods chief among them being the relationship contracting. Relationship contracting is done with the aim of removing the barriers to efficiency that are caused by the traditional forms of contracting and also in order to increase the commitment of the parties to a contract to ensuring the optimal performance of the project.
This study was done with the intention of investigating the nature of relationship contracting in all of its variations. The tools of data collection that were used included documentary analysis, and questionnaires. Most of the useful findings in this study were derived from the documentary analysis, as it was established that relationship contracting is not that well understood by the respondents in the questionnaires, even though not enough participant had been responded. The researcher set maximum 15 participants that happened to work at oil and gas project in five different Oil and Gas Exploration Company, namely Queensland Gas Company, Easternwell Energy, DST Australia Pty Ltd, Nail Mansell Group and Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise (TSBE). The 17 number of questionnaires that were mailed to each company which was filled by the management staff.
Relationship contracting is different from the traditional contracting method based on the way that the risks and the gains from a project are shared among the partners in the project. The major variations of relationship contracting were partnership and alliancing. Partnership has remnant properties of the traditional form of contracting, while alliancing is an acute deviation from the traditional contracting, especially in the legal liabilities that are expected from the parties in the contract. Relationship contracting is in the present applied in mega projects where there is a need for total commitment of the parties and also a requirement for innovation to take place without necessarily incurring additional risks. The nature of relationship contracting is better compared to the conventional form of contracting, as it seeks to have all the stakeholders in a project benefit. It is therefore a recommendable form of contracting for the oil and gas sector, where a change in getting experienced in the form of increased capital requirements and the complexity in exploration and production of oil and gas.
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Current - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - No Department (1 Jul 2013 -) |
| Supervisors: | Thorpe, David |
| Qualification: | Master of Engineering Sciences (Mechanical) |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jul 2026 02:12 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jul 2026 02:12 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | oil industry, gas industry, traditional contracting |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/53252 |
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