Pipe Laying Vessel

UK Project

Scope

This vessel has a high specification pipe laying capability. The purpose of the survey was to record and measure any deflections in the pipe laying reel, and model interferences in the laydown area to determine the vessels survey antenna offsets. Laser scanning was selected as the optimum survey system because the speed of capture.

Benefits

Rapid Laser Scanning allowed the survey to be undertaken without causing any disruption to the vessels normal operations. The laser scans allowed design/ conceptual models of new equipment to be placed in the scan cloud to check for interferences without any significant modeling effort. This technique allows for new items to be test fitted into the real world for clash checking, design/constructability and HAZOP studies.