Parallel offshore oil/gas field:ACP-based front end engineering design and evaluation

Abstract

Front end engineering design (FEED) and its related evaluation plays an important role in the life cycle of offshore oil/gas field development.A digitalized way of FEED based on ACP architecture was provided by the proposed parallel offshore oil/gas field system.Firstly,based on several developed oil/gas fields located in South China Sea,a virtual oil/gas field using building information modeling (BIM) was constructed.Secondly,the case-based reasoning (CBR) to evaluate the FEED based on both BIM and successful cases was introduced.The methods of real-virtual interactions were also enhanced by the introduction of CBR into ACP architecture.The parallel platform has been used to visually design and evaluate oil/gas field FEED,which improves the efficiency and accuracy of users.

Keywords

• ACP;BIM;CBR;FEED