Schedule delay
The completion date slips every month and nobody can name the activities actually driving it.
Iraj Hedayatpour
Energy Project Management & Consulting
See project problems while there is still time to fix them.
Energy Projects | EPC | AI-Enabled
I help EPC and energy project teams identify problems early, control schedule and cost deviations, and make better decisions — using proven project management methods, with AI as an accelerator.
60-minute diagnostic session: 3.5 million toman · All prices
20+ yearsField experience in oil, gas and infrastructure EPC projects
PMPProject Management Professional — issued by the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA
PEB assessor13th Iranian National Project Excellence Award, based on the IPMA Project Excellence Baseline
4 AI certificatesThree PMI course certificates and one “AI Consultant” certificate (CPD)
What I solve
If any of these sound familiar
Each is a signal that usually gets taken seriously too late. Under each one is the service built for it.
Weak planning
The baseline is out of date, updates are irregular, and the schedule is not what decisions are based on.
Cost and schedule deviation
Percent complete is reported, but SPI, CPI and estimate at completion are not.
Engineering–construction gap
Drawings closed in the design office don’t build easily on site, and changes come back late.
Unowned interfaces
Interfaces between disciplines and contractors have no register and no owner until they fail on site.
A risk register that isn’t alive
Risks get logged once they have already become issues, not while they could still be prevented.
Governance and decisions
It is unclear who decides what, by when — so decisions slip week after week.
No clear view of reality
Reports look fine, yet senior management senses it isn’t seeing the full picture.
AI unused in project management
Teams spend days assembling reports while AI tools go unused or are used ad hoc.
Why seeing early matters
In fog, a problem doesn’t disappear; it is only seen later.
My job is to put it in front of you before you reach that point.
Services
Three services, with clear deliverables and duration
Each is built for one kind of problem. Before you start you know what will be done, what you receive and how long it takes.
Service 1
Project Health Check & Diagnosis
In two weeks you know where the project really stands, what is holding it back and what the first three actions are.
Service 2
AI-Assisted Project Management
Faster reporting, earlier risk, and decisions resting on traceable data.
Service 3
Project Management System Assessment & Improvement
It becomes clear where the organisation’s project management system drives decisions and where it only produces reports — and where improvement should start.
The simplest start is the 60-minute diagnostic session: 3.5 million toman. Smaller ways to start, and all prices
Case studies
Role, challenge, intervention, result
For each project: my role, the challenge we faced and what we did. Client names, contract values and document numbers are never published; results are shared only through non-confidential indicators.
Technical assessment · Gas
North Pars gas tie-in to the South Pars network
Engineering studies — since December 2022
- Role
- Engineering Project Manager
- Challenge
- Bringing North Pars feed gas into the South Pars network and the second refinery’s receiving system without compromising system stability — with pressure, flow-dynamics and gas composition risks, and three parties with different requirements.
- Intervention
- Led studies and simulation with process, flow assurance, piping and instrumentation; managed the engineering interface between source and destination; assessed capacity bottleneck, pressure surge and blending risks; acted as technical authority aligning all three parties.
Gas refinery · Pilot
South Pars Phase 19 — booster station
FEED and basic engineering
- Role
- Project Manager
- Challenge
- Integrating the station FEED with the Phase 19 master programme and resolving inter-discipline design conflicts before they became costly changes in the transition to EPC.
- Intervention
- Led FEED and basic engineering; managed process, mechanical, piping, instrumentation and electrical interfaces; controlled milestones and technical documents from P&IDs to datasheets; identified engineering risks at design stage; secured formal approval of engineering packages.
Gas fields · Development EPC
EPC development of the Homa, Varavi and Tabnak gas fields
Construction — May 2021 to December 2022
- Role
- Project Manager
- Challenge
- Several subcontractors working at once inside a live operating environment, with interference risk and sensitive equipment in harsh weather.
- Intervention
- Direct progress control against the schedule and subcontractor interference management; IFC compliance; permit-to-work discipline and HSE leadership; cost control and subcontractor valuations; daily, weekly and monthly reporting to the client.
AI in practice · Engineering services contract
A contract at the end of its term
Several hundred pages of contract, letters and minutes were read with one fixed template. The timeline showed the delay was a missing prerequisite the other party was obliged to provide. Work that would have taken weeks produced a decision memo in days.
Iraj Hedayatpour
Energy Project Management & Consulting
Positioning
The gap between design office and site
A project is won neither in the design office nor on site — it is won in the gap between the two, and managing that gap is my work.
Most project trouble starts right there. The design office issues a drawing that does not build easily on site, and the site makes a decision nobody saw in design. I have spent years moving between the two and learning to translate each one’s language for the other — before it turns into a dispute.
Mission
I help you see a project’s problems while there is still room to recover — not when all that is left is explaining them.
Three steps
How the diagnostic session works
From the first message to the page in your hands, there are only three steps.
You write three lines
The type of project, the stage you are in, and the question that won’t go away. That is enough for me to tell whether it is in my field.
We sit down for an hour
By phone, online or in person. I ask more than I tell; a problem has to be heard properly before it is answered.
You leave with one page
Within 24 hours you have a single page: the diagnosis, two options, and the next action with a named owner. Something you can put on the table in tomorrow’s meeting.
Verifiable
Credentials
Every credential with its issuer and exact status. The certificate images are on the Expertise page so you can verify them yourself.
Project management and project excellence
PMP — Project Management ProfessionalIssued by the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA
ISO 21500 — Guidance on project managementCertified
Assessor — 13th Iranian National Project Excellence AwardIranian Project Management Association (IRANPMA) — based on the IPMA Project Excellence Baseline (PEB)
Qualification of Assessors workshopIranian Project Management Association — three days, Tehran, February 2025
P3.express — project management methodology24-hour course with an accredited P3.express trainer — February 2025
MBA, Construction Project ManagementBSc Civil Engineering
AI credentials
- Generative AI Overview for Project Managers
- Practical Application of Generative AI for Project Managers
- Talking to AI: Prompt Engineering for Project Managers
- Certified AI ConsultantCareerpreneur Academy
Fifteen questions · about ten minutes
Free Project Health Check
The same questions I ask in a diagnostic session. At the end you see the project health score out of 100, the score for each of ten areas, and the three places to start.
- Schedule
- Cost
- Risk
- Engineering
- Procurement
- Construction
- Governance & decisions
- Reporting
- Interfaces
- AI readiness
Where to start
Choose your starting point
For project managersBook a Project Diagnostic SessionOne specific issue, 60 minutes: where the problem really is and what to do tomorrow morning.For owners and executivesRequest a Project Health AssessmentAn independent, evidence-based view of a project’s real status in two weeks.For project controls and PMOsExplore AI for Your ProjectWhere AI fits in your reporting and risk cycle — without putting your data at risk.For EPC firms and consultanciesDiscuss a Strategic PartnershipLong-term collaboration, multi-project assessments or regional projects.
Give it one hour and tell me where your project is stuck
By the end of that session you know where the problem really is, which two options you have, and what to do tomorrow morning.