Oil and Gas

 

Virtual worlds offer considerable benefits to the Oil and Gas industries, providing an exciting new medium for companies to recruit, collaborate, sell their products/service, train personnel and to enable design visualization.

 
 

Below are some examples of what your organization can do with a virtual presence. With virtual worlds you can:

  • Create an accurate representation of your facility in the virtual world. This offers potential benefits in recruitment and can be used to generate awareness of your business.
  • Build properly scaled models of vessels at the design stages to enable testing of the layout. Use virtual models for training purposes so crews can be familiar with the vessel before they see it in the real world.
  • Use the virtual worlds for emergency situation training to allow crews to be familiar with procedures on board before arriving and to save costs and time in running drills whilst on board.
  • Hold globally accessible open days to recruit staff from all over the globe, ensuring you have the best employees possible whilst enabling them to see the environments in which they will be working.
  • Host virtual meetings, allowing people to attend world wide without incurring huge costs and time out for travelling.
  • Increase the ease of communication between personnel by creating an open environment for colleagues to share ideas, express opinions and offer suggestions for the good of your business.

See below some examples of how businesses have used virtual world technology:

 

BP

The project allowed BP employees from around the globe the ability to set foot and walk round a 1:1 scaled model of the FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) Angola spotting design flaws, possible future problems (one of which was the location of the soup cauldron) and experience the comfort of the crew while on board the vessel.

To find out more as to how Second Places can help your organisation to meet its needs please contact us.