Virtual reality spill response training
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Pioneers of web-based safety training for oil personnel are to export their latest technology to Abu Dhabi.
Aberdeen, Scotland, based Cresent have secured a $441,000 contract from the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (Adco) to provide online virtual reality emergency response training at ten different locations.
Thousands of oil workers around the world currently use Cresent’s web-based spill response interactive training package but the technology being deployed for the Adco project is more advanced.
Rather than using computer generated simulations of Adco sites, a Cresent team has taken 360 degree, three-dimensional photographs of the various locations to produce true virtual reality training exercises.
Once logged on to the company’s intranet, Adco personnel will be trained and tested in how to tackle fires, explosions, gas escapes and oil spills - all set in their specific workplace.
Cresent’s Managing Director, Jim Land says the new technology makes online training even more realistic than was previously possible: “When trainees log-on to the programme, they will immediately recognise locations they work in every day.
“They will have to respond to fires and other emergencies using the equipment and communications that are actually available. The whole programme will be fully interactive, which we have already demonstrated is the most effective way for trainees to retain knowledge.
“It may be quite an unnerving experience for some of them but it is hard to imagine a more realistic scenario on a computer.”
Posted by Editor Offshore Arabia Magazine
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