all you real pro Project controllers are going to hate this. ;-)

I've been a scheduler at my refinery (get me ... MY refinery!) for the last 8 years. In this time i have been (rather loosely) overseeing the work of 2 other schedulers whilst scheduling my own blocks. We do about 75m worth of work a year on average. Recently the pace of incoming work as well as management expectations of management professionalism have increased significantly and I find myself in charge of 6 schedulers (perhaps 7 from next month) and expected no longer to schedule blocks but to concentrate on what my boss is terming "a more Project Control" kind of role. There's another role that's been created to look at preperation work method and tools, but that function has not been filled after 6 months of trying so I expect I'll catch some of that as well.

now, I was a project manager back in the day (outside of oil and Gas) so I have some incling what project control is but I would not call myself a project controller and I rather need to become (at least a facsimile of) one in short(ish) order. I have some reference materials (PMBOK etc) but I was wondering if there is a central resource (perhaps a text book or something) that you would consider a good concise reference for project controllers (4 years of study is not a constructive answer!).

Especially in Oil and Gas Maintenance turnarounds (rather than EPC / CAPEX)

many thanks

James