Rebuilding the evidence after the fact.

A privately held midstream operator backed by private capital finished a run of high-pressure trunkline and facility projects and faced the question every operator eventually confronts: where is the evidence? Records lived in disconnected files across contractors, inspectors, and vendors. Project histories were incomplete and internally inconsistent. Closeout packages could not be assembled with confidence — and regulators, auditors, and future buyers do not accept "we think so" as an answer.

MPS reconstructed the project histories record by record: identifying incomplete evidence, reconciling conflicting data, closing gaps against source documents, and organizing what remained into closeout packages an owner could actually rely on. The work spanned a dozen simultaneous project record sets — trunklines, facility modifications, and plant tie-ins — under a multi-year records program with the same operator.

Every project ended with a complete, defensible closeout package. But the deeper result was a conclusion about method: reconstructing records after construction costs multiples of capturing them correctly during construction. The personnel who could explain a weld map, a heat number, or a test report are still on site during construction — and gone at closeout.

That conclusion is the direct origin of MPS's gate-based approach: records are reviewed in parallel with project execution, at defined gates, while missing information can still be corrected at the source. This work shaped the MPS-JobBook workflows for structured data capture, validation, exception management, and digital closeout.

After-the-fact review is the most expensive way to learn that your records have failed. It is also the most common way.