Find the right question before the problem grows.
An interactive field reference distilled from fifty years in marine, offshore and FPSO project delivery.
Four principles to keep visible
The shortest route into the handbook: people, reality, decisions and relationships.
Choose the lens you need now
This reference is organised around what a project leader is trying to do, not where a topic sat in the book.
People, decisions, communication, stakeholders and leadership behaviour.
Risk, schedule, governance, change, interfaces, engineering, documents and quality.
Construction, commissioning, sail away, hook-up, operational readiness and handover.
Read the yard, challenge reports, spot drift and find the real constraint.
Stabilise the team, prioritise the first domino and rebuild control.
Missing gaskets, wrong revisions, tags, valves, bolts and other early warnings.
Main Field Guide
Search is full-text across every detailed field card and the complete 52-chapter handbook index.
Diagnose by symptom
Select or search a symptom. This does not diagnose engineering faults; it points to handbook areas worth investigating.
Field Reference Results
Practical rules, questions, checklists, warnings, cases and field notes for immediate use.
Handbook Chapter Results
Deeper handbook material. Every chapter is clickable and opens a concise summary with the Rev 1 handbook page reference.
Real Stories
Real project experiences connected to the handbook lesson and page.
Case Studies
The four project case studies from Chapter 43.
Appendix Results
Field rules, Chris's Questions, practical checklists and Small Things reference material.
Give Me a Question
Select what is happening. The tool returns questions drawn from the handbook’s recurring leadership tests, readiness checks and project-reality prompts.
Projects are delivered by people.
Use reports to direct attention, then verify reality at the workface.
Act on weak signals while the correction is still manageable.
Do not wait for a minor item to acquire interfaces, cost and schedule consequences.
Separate facts from assumptions, understand consequences and follow through.
Trust shortens the distance between issue and resolution.
The next team should inherit controlled work, information and risk—not project memory.
Written from the workface, not the textbook.
Chris Morton brings more than fifty years of marine, offshore and FPSO experience, including more than three decades delivering complex projects internationally.
This site converts the handbook’s practical rules, questions, warning signs, checklists, lessons and case examples into a field reference that can be used before meetings, during yard walks and when a project begins to drift.
The aim is not to replace the handbook or reproduce it page by page. It is to help experienced project personnel find the right prompt quickly enough to change what happens next.