Brownfield Reality Capture & Plant Digitization

Brownfield Reality Capture & Plant Digitization

Brownfield Reality Capture & Plant Digitization

Service Overview

Most oil and gas engineering challenges occur in brownfield environments where original drawings are decades old, inaccurate, or unavailable. Modification engineering without accurate as-built data is the single largest source of costly surprises. Desapex eliminates this risk through comprehensive reality capture that creates a millimeter-accurate digital baseline of any facility, regardless of age or complexity.

Our Digital-First Approach

Deploy Advanced Scanners

Deploy high-speed terrestrial LiDAR scanners (Leica RTC360, Faro Focus) combined with drone-based aerial photogrammetry for elevated structures and tank farms.

Process Point Clouds

Process the registered point cloud into intelligent 3D models using scan-to-BIM workflows.

Process Point Clouds

Process the registered point cloud into intelligent 3D models using scan-to-BIM workflows.

Model Plant Elements

Identify and model every pipe, valve, structural member, equipment item, and cable tray in the scanned volume.

Model Plant Elements

Identify and model every pipe, valve, structural member, equipment item, and cable tray in the scanned volume.

Integrate Subsurface Data

Integrate underground utility detection using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data overlaid on the 3D model

Integrate Subsurface Data

Integrate underground utility detection using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data overlaid on the 3D model

Extract As-Builts

Extract as-built piping isometrics from the 3D model for comparison against original design documentation.

Extract As-Builts

Extract as-built piping isometrics from the 3D model for comparison against original design documentation.

Core Deliverables

  • High-density 3D point cloud capture of complete plant areas.

  • Intelligent scan-to-BIM conversion with piping line numbers, sizes, and insulation.

  • Existing condition assessment identifying corrosion, deformation, and structural deterioration.

  • A 60-70% reduction in pre-engineering survey time.

  • Virtual elimination of field dimension conflicts that plague brownfield modification projects.

Why Choose Desapex

Comprehensive reality capture can document a complex petrochemical facility in a fraction of the time required by manual survey methods, with accuracy levels that manual measurement simply cannot achieve.

Unique Selling Proposition

Our USP is that the 3D plant model we create is a reusable digital infrastructure asset, not a one-time snapshot. Every future modification project or safety study can leverage the same model, transforming the economics of brownfield engineering from project-by-project re-surveying to continuous digital asset building.

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Let’s make your next project on time and within budget.

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Let’s make your next project on time and within budget.

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Let’s make your next project on time and within budget.