Trapil broadens its services for pipeline & terminal operators with AI-generated digital twins

Trapil, operator of pipeline transportation services for refined petroleum products, Survey, a national player in 3D reality capture, and Samp, a deeptech company automating the generation of digital twins, have announced a partnership to accelerate the implementation of digital twins in oil transport and storage sites. Thanks to this alliance, Trapil and Survey will be able to offer their customers the innovative “Shared Reality” solution from Samp, thereby extending their range of services to third-party operators.

After deploying Samp’s solution on its own facilities, and realizing the benefits of Shared Reality in terms of simplification of modernisation projects as well as operational excellence, Trapil and Survey have decided to extend their range of expertise offered to midstream oil & gas operators by integrating this solution into their services portfolio.

Combining expertises to accelerate the deployment of digital twins

Samp’s Shared Reality solution creates accurate replicas of industrial sites in just days. Using artificial intelligence and 3D streaming technology, it links technical documents (inventories, drawings, diagrams, etc.) with a 3D reality capture. 

These digital twins offer a combined view of the actual site and the technical diagrams, simplifying the execution of many of the most costly and risky day-to-day operations, while making it possible to constantly track document and site changes over time.

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© Samp’s Shared Reality solution: AI-generated workspace

The opportunity to integrate this new expertise in the field of pipeline transportation

For Trapil and Survey, this partnership means a broader range of services and a value proposition that is more aligned with the needs of midstream operators, as the solution was jointly developed with Samp and has been fully proven on the networks operated by Trapil.

This collaboration between Trapil, Survey and Samp marks a major step forward in infrastructure management in the pipeline transportation sector, further enhancing the safety and adaptability of both infrastructure and operations.

AI-generated digital twins
© Trapil: SURVEY 3D capture using a dynamic scanner

Xavier Folch, Trapil’s Managing Director, declared: “This partnership with Samp is particularly strategic for us as it is based on fundamental values that have always been core to the strategy of Trapil and its subsidiary Survey: innovating to improve health and safety, while preventing any damage to the environment. “

Stephan Valdebouze, Survey’s Managing Director said: “Survey is delighted to enter into this strategic partnership with SAMP. It combines Survey’s distinctive ability to accurately and comprehensively capture industrial facilities with SAMP’s technical expertise and differentiated solution, thereby offering our customers efficiency in terms of safety, operation and maintenance. This collaboration reinforces our shared commitment to operational excellence.”

Laurent Bourgouin, CEO of Samp, declared: “I’m extremely proud of this partnership with Trapil and Survey. This partnership enables us to have our Shared Reality solution supported by industry experts with widely recognized capabilities, enabling us to make a faster impact on this sector, which is undergoing rapid transformation.”

TRAPIL facility - Le Havre-Paris network
© TRAPIL facility - Le Havre-Paris network

About Trapil
Trapil is the historic operator of the hydrocarbon pipeline networks in France, meeting the country’s massive supply needs while guaranteeing a high level of safety and reliability. The 4,700 km of pipelines operated by Trapil form an interconnected network that transports more than 50% of France’s fuel consumption.
Drawing on its experience and the cutting-edge techniques it has developed, Trapil also offers a wide range of services in many fields related to pipeline operation: pipeline and depot engineering, operational consultancy, management of the integrity and ageing of industrial infrastructures, etc…

About Survey
Survey provides network infrastructure engineering services throughout France. The complementary nature of its activities means that it coordinates and synergises a wide range of skills, making it a key partner for network operators: industrial companies, local authorities and public institutions. Historically a specialist in the Oil & Gas industry, Survey is now fully involved in the challenges of the energy transition, transferring its expertise to new sectors such as water and electricity.

About Samp
Samp is a deeptech company that accelerates the transformation and decarbonization of industrial sites thanks to a digital twin of facilities, generated in just a few days directly from the field. Their web-based “Shared Reality” solution reconciles 3D scans of sites with technical documentation (inventories, drawings) that is often incomplete and rarely up to date. This patented solution, based on Artificial Intelligence and 3D streaming, brings simplicity and efficiency to industrial site modernization projects.

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What can you expect from a demo with Samp?

Scanning Services

Extend the reach of your scanning services by delivering your scanning campaigns on an AI-powered 3D worspace, designed from the ground up for the industry. Leverage your surveying and topographic expertise to consolidate valuable field data into a single viewer: maps, aerial and drone orthophotos, laser scans, photogrammetry or videogrammetry, and georadar can now be securely viewed, updated and shared in one place.

Engineering services, EPC

Upscale the value of your engineering services offering by delivering digital twin as a service, powered by your qualified staff. Improve customer retention with longer-term contracts that ensure continuous synchronization of technical data with the as-built facility. Accelerate or automate the production of technical deliverables when working on brownfield projects with little or no existing input information.

CONTRACT OPERATORS

When preparing a quote for operating a facility on behalf of the owner, be sure to maximize that short window of time by taking advantage of as much technical information as possible. Turn your initial site visit into a unique opportunity to capture the current condition of the facility. Make a bid that will beat the competition with an already operational digital twin, while giving you increased confidence in your future service contract margins.

OWNER OPERATORS

Whether you manage a single plant or multiple sites, whether your facilities are on-shore or off-shore, we can help you build and maintain a twin within days. Major milestones in a plant’s lifecycle, such as handover from EPC to operator, change of ownership, revamping or decommissioning, provide an opportunity to implement a safer and more efficient way of working with your extended teams, regardless of the quality of your technical data.