Anders Thostrup (Shell and USPI-NL) bravely announced that the 2022 USPI-NL member meeting would address ‘what’s really happening in the data standardization landscape and what can be used’. Next Ferry Zollner revealed that Shell has over 200 tools working on project data which use different definitions, making data comparison difficult. Shell is currently working with ISO 19008* a ‘standard cost coding system for oil and gas production and processing facilities’. This is a faceted system that offers a granular control of costs as part of continuous improvement of capital efficiency. Facets (dimensions) can be the costs as assigned to physical assets, activities or project resources. The standard is said to provide a basis for project lifecycle data structuring and analysis with a comprehensive scope of application from exploration to decommissioning.
* A snip at 58 Swiss Francs!
Mark den Boer and Jerome Jemmotte (both with Shell) presented the Pernis ‘opportunity’ to decarbonize the largest refinery in the EU. This involves the construction of a Green Engineering Digital Twin, an advanced work package in the EU RED II initiative. RED II is the ‘recast’ (i.e. delayed) version of the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive which envisages a 32% target for renewable fuels in the EU by 2030. Shell’s Pernis project envisages the production of 820k tonnes per year of renewable hydrocarbons and sustainable aviation fuel and a connection with the Rotterdam Porthos CCS facility. A cloud-based commercial package (which supplier was not divulged) will support piping design in what appears to be a PDF-based application.
A joint presentation from John Leeflang (McDermott) and Jean-Luc Hoffert (Technip) discussed data standards implementation with reference to CFIHOS (originally developed at USPI-NL) and the proposed FL3DMS 3D data standard. The pair promised a viewpoint ‘from the engineering community’. The engineering standards landscape is ‘vast and bewildering’. The ISO standards (15926 et al) are hard to implement and have a tendency to proliferate. Folks tend to develop one more ‘standard’ rather than use what is there! Currently standards (like CFIHOS) are defined and implementable but often lack policy requirements, verification and compliance metrics. They need more support and an enforcement policy. The EPC is not in a great position to achieve this with its focus on project, as opposed to data, delivery. The result is that while CFIHOS is in a ‘steady state’ there is ‘no evidence of significant adoption across the client landscape’. This is ‘eroding confidence from EPC senior executives regarding funding further development’. At the technology layer, while some data management tools can export CFIHOS data none do import. Connecting engineering tools to CFIHOS is challenging. EPC’s are ‘burning many man hours on this’ at a time when budgets are ‘under attack’. It will be hard to continue without concrete results from projects. On the other hand, building information management standards like ISO 19650 are growing in visibility and encroaching on energy use cases*. CFIHOS rep peter Townsend (IOGP) offered a defense of the initiative stating that the IOGP (current ‘owner’ of CFIHOS) is working on training, awareness and measuring adoption. Marketing is another focus area. Townsend acknowledged the ‘invaluable’ feedback both for CFIHOS and for the owner operators who are driving the initiative.
* This observation recalls the manner in which Fiatech, the US engineering and construction standards body, was subsumed into CII, the (building) Construction Industry Institute back in 2017.
Anders Thostrup (Shell and USPI-NL)
presented a proposal for a new equipment tagging standard. Owner
operators all have their own standards, a situation Thostrup qualifies
as ‘ridiculous’. Agreement is needed on what to tag and how. The advent
of the digital twin and digital MRO systems argues for standard tags at
the granularity of pumps, motors and civil structures (flanges). The
USPI-NL proposal is for a set of minimum tagging requirements derived
from current owner operator specs. More from USPI-NL.
Martin te Lintelo (USPI-NL) reported from the FL3DMS project that kicked-off in 2020. FL3DMS, the Facility Lifecycle 3D Model Standard. Release 1.0 was delivered late 2021. The team is now working to demonstrate the business case for the 3D model and to persuade more owner operators to maintain their models throughout the asset lifecycle. For an update on FL3DMS visit the June 2022 workshop page.
More from USPI-NL and CFIHOS/IOGP.
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