PlantTech/Spar Europe 2010

摘要

In 2010, the Spar organization acquired PlantTech, rolling together the facilities engineering IT conference with Spar's 3D/laser scanning event. This offered the oil and gas facilities community some enlightening glimpses at related activities such as mobile, high precision survey and crime scene investigation technology. Mustapha Yahia (from Saipem/ENI's Sofresid Engineering unit) set the scene in his keynote, showing how 3D Laser scan is used across oil and gas and shipbuilding at various stages of the engineering lifecycle. In 2 out of 3 major revamp projects, CAD and 3D models are 'non existent or obsolete-especially in oil and gas.' This, the main challenge in a revamp, used to be corrected by time consuming and inaccurate manual survey. Sofresid has been using laser surveying since 2003. A 4 floor 20 m cube platform was surveyed in a day, enabling engineering to maximize prefabrication of structural, electrical, and instrumentation components. The new module can be checked for clashes and the installation process walked-through in the virtual environment. Installation is 'a very delicate operation on an FPSO.' Checkout Urbica's point-cloud fly-through on links/1101 _19.