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Technip Energies / BP

Specification and validation of control room design

Need

Specifying a control room, the future nerve centre of the Tortue FPSO, in a project led by an international consortium

  • Drawing up an ergonomic file on workstation layout and design to demonstrate the optimisation of space, from an operational and Offshore standards point of view
  • Implementation of an iterative and participative approach integrating the various stakeholders (engineering, operator, end customer, maintenance)
  • Management of a team combining several areas of expertise: ergonomist, architect, lighting designer, acoustician

Implementation of a user test campaign in a scale 1 virtual immersive environment to put future control room operators through their paces.

Intervention

  • Design of the layout for the future FPSO control room resulting in the production of a detailed design file (organisation, layout, furniture, lighting, acoustics, supervision)
  • Development of virtual reality technology building blocks: Eye tracking, immersive voice recording, tangible and evolving environment, control room for experimental monitoring
  • Deployment of a scale 1, multi-user virtual reality installation to put a group of operators in a recreated activity situation (immersive collaboration, simulation of nominal and degraded scenarios, free movement). 600m² of the Vélodrome National were mobilised to enable the experimentation.
  • Ultimately, to enable the final operator of the room to supervise an evaluation of its design at a very early stage in the engineering project and at lower cost than producing a faithful 1:1 scale physical model.

 

CustomerTechnip Energies / BP
SectorIndustry
ProjectFPSO Turtle
WebsiteFPSO Greater Tortue