RasGas commissions Avineon for conversion and migration services

Published October 17th, 2002 - 02:00 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

Technical service provider, Avineon will provide conversion and migration services for Qatar’s Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company (RasGas), updating their as-built drawings and engineering records for the next three years.  

 

After an extensive tender evaluation and site visit, RasGas selected Avineon from among eighteen different vendors. Under this contract Avineon will provide data conversion, migration, updating of as-built drawings services to RasGas' 70,000 engineering drawings and databases.  

 

Currently RasGas uses Intergraph's' Plant Design System (PDS), Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID), Instrument Data Manager (IDM) and Microstation. The plan is to convert, migrate, and update their P&IDs, General Arrangements, 3D models, Instrumentation, Electrical, Structural, and Civil drawings and databases in the associated Intergraph products.  

 

RasGas is a joint venture established in 1993 by the Qatar General Petroleum Corporation (QGPC) and a subsidiary of Exxon-Mobil. The other RasGas partners are Itochu Corporation and Nissho Iwai Corporation. RasGas is formed to engage in the business of producing and selling liquefied natural gas (LNG), condensate and other hydrocarbon products. — (menareport.com)

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