TY - JOUR
T1 - Streamlining Digital Modeling and Building Information Modelling (BIM) Uses for the Oil and Gas Projects
AU - Lee, C.-Y.
AU - Chong, H.-Y.
AU - Wang, X.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Gary Tan, an IT specialist of oil and gas projects for his time and suggestions of improvement of our paper. This paper was inspired by the preparatory research for the author’s PhD project which is co-funded by Curtin University and Australian Research Council (ARC) linkage scholarship #53187.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, CIMNE, Barcelona, Spain.
PY - 2016/11/23
Y1 - 2016/11/23
N2 - The oil and gas industry is a technology-driven industry. Over the last two decades, it has heavily made use of digital modeling and associated technologies (DMAT) to enhance its commercial capability. Meanwhile, the Building Information Modelling (BIM) has grown at an exponential rate in the built environment sector. It is not only a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility, but it has also made an impact on the management processes of building project lifecycle. It is apparent that there are many similarities between BIM and DMAT usability in the aspect of physical modeling and functionality. The aim of this study is to streamline the usage of both DMAT and BIM whilst discovering valuable practices for performance improvement in the oil and gas projects. To achieve this, 28 BIM guidelines, 83 DMAT academic publications and 101 DMAT vendor case studies were selected for review. The findings uncover (a) 38 BIM uses; (b) 32 DMAT uses and; (c) 36 both DMAT and BIM uses. The synergy between DMAT and BIM uses would render insightful references into managing efficient oil and gas’s projects. It also helps project stakeholders to recognise future investment or potential development areas of BIM and DMAT uses in their projects.
AB - The oil and gas industry is a technology-driven industry. Over the last two decades, it has heavily made use of digital modeling and associated technologies (DMAT) to enhance its commercial capability. Meanwhile, the Building Information Modelling (BIM) has grown at an exponential rate in the built environment sector. It is not only a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility, but it has also made an impact on the management processes of building project lifecycle. It is apparent that there are many similarities between BIM and DMAT usability in the aspect of physical modeling and functionality. The aim of this study is to streamline the usage of both DMAT and BIM whilst discovering valuable practices for performance improvement in the oil and gas projects. To achieve this, 28 BIM guidelines, 83 DMAT academic publications and 101 DMAT vendor case studies were selected for review. The findings uncover (a) 38 BIM uses; (b) 32 DMAT uses and; (c) 36 both DMAT and BIM uses. The synergy between DMAT and BIM uses would render insightful references into managing efficient oil and gas’s projects. It also helps project stakeholders to recognise future investment or potential development areas of BIM and DMAT uses in their projects.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11831-016-9201-4
DO - 10.1007/s11831-016-9201-4
M3 - Article
SN - 1134-3060
VL - 25
SP - 349
EP - 396
JO - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
JF - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
IS - 2
ER -