Digitizing Plants Using Laser Scanning PTQ Article
Petroleum Technology Quarterly Article on Significant ROI of Laser Scanning
With oil prices at $60 per barrel or higher and fuel consumption needs escalating in the United States and many parts of the world, petroleum refineries and gas processing plants are being revamped to ensure production levels are as high as possible. Unfortunately, most owners and operators have little or no as-built (or “existing condition”) documentation on which to base revamp designs. Further, the as-built documentation that does exist is typically out-of-date or of questionable integrity.
Inaccurate or non-existent as-built documentation can cause many issues during revamps, including more personnel in the plant, increased design time, clashes between the new piping and existing piping and equipment and field routing of pipe (contributing to additional inaccurate as-built documentation), to name a few...
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