PD-09-117 Capturing As-Built Assets for Documentation and Virtualization

Description:

Both refiners and producers in the oil and gas industry are beginning to develop intelligent virtual asset models for their key facilities based upon highly accurate laser scans of their assets. These laser scans and resulting models enable as-built asset documentation produced more efficiently while being more complete in content. In addition, these companies are finding these models can reduce the amount of rework and RFIs during the construction phase of projects by nearly 80%. The laser scanned as-built model enables engineering to accelerate the basic and detailed design phases, while significantly increasing the quality and accuracy of the final designs. The level and quality of detail in the laser scan based model is proving to surpass that produced by traditional surveying methods. In the later stages of the asset lifecycle, the virtual asset model is being leveraged as a basis for entirely new, virtualization enabled, work processes in areas such as reliability, operations, and maintenance.