Simulator features

From the industry, for the industry.

Built on more than 45 years of combined experience in oil and gas and emergency management, and developed in-house, the simulator recreates how a real emergency is commanded, so your people are ready to perform in a real event.

Audited and approved by OPITO as part of Poseidon Training's approval as an OPITO Approved Centre for MEMIR 7228, OIMCE 7025 and CROER 9004.

Training providers using the simulator to deliver OPITO products need their own OPITO centre approval.

OPITO standards and scenarios

OPITO asset types: Production Operations (Fixed) and (Floating), Drilling Operations (Fixed) and (Floating), Mobile/Floating Installations and Normally Unattended Installations (NUI), plus onshore plant and renewable energy assets.
Scenario library: More than 100 built-in scenarios with lesson plans, by asset type, and scenarios built from your own lesson plans.
Type A, B and C: Readily controllable, escalating and full evacuation, each covering threat to life, to the environment, and to plant and equipment.
OIMCE incident range: Well control, explosion and fire, unignited hydrocarbon or toxic gas release, accommodation fire, helicopter incident, pipeline incident, collision or wave damage, loss of stability, and foundation failure (jack-ups).
Security threats: Bomb threats, piracy, hostile vessels and acts of terrorism.
Essential events: Evacuation or abandonment, injured personnel or loss of life, missing personnel or man overboard, loss of communication or containment, multiple casualties, loss of muster points or temporary refuge, stressed personnel, extreme weather, environmental effects, loss of essential facilities or key personnel, information overload and loss of positioning.
Specified equipment: Emergency response plan, safety case information, company procedures, permits, audible and visual alarms, telephones, radios and PA, information boards, background noise and distractions, and general arrangement plans.
Remote delivery: To the OPITO software requirements: learners can talk to every participant at all times, PA, telephone and radio are clearly identifiable, and all information updates in real time.

Facilitator control and delivery

Launch process: Installation, scenario, permits, weather and controls set before the scenario starts.
Live control: Inject events, apply manual overrides and share documents as the scenario runs.
Timers: Session clock, scenario timers, response time-outs, and arrival times for helicopters and vessels.
Practice scenarios: Automated events, so your team can practise on its own.
Familiarisation: Learners explore the installation and controls before assessment, as the standards require.
Role-based sessions: Delegates join in their assigned emergency roles.
Live shared session: One synchronised exercise, with every action shared with the whole team in real time.
Face to face or remote: Run it in your own command room or deliver the session remotely.
Offshore drills: Use it for your own offshore drills, as an operator or a contractor.

Installation, environment and procedures

Built from your plans: Configured to your installations and asset types: your layouts, your alarms, your terminology.
Overview, decks and equipment: Every level, with navigable hotspots, down to the views your team works from.
Production and drilling: Realistic fidelity for production installations and drilling facilities.
Field maps: Customisable maps for onshore and offshore fields.
Stability: Heel, trim, draught and freeboard, with ballast tanks and pump line-ups.
Jack-ups and semi-submersibles: Leg penetration, air gap and leg load for jack-ups, and seabed clearance for semi-submersibles.
Stability consequences: Capsize, downflooding and the loss of evacuation routes.
Weather console: Wind, gusts, visibility, sea state, wave height, air and sea temperature and atmospheric pressure, shared by all and changeable during a scenario, with storm, fog, monsoon, cyclone and typhoon presets, day and night.
Safety cases and procedures: Safety cases and company procedures for each asset type, such as drilling and production, adaptable to yours.
Emergency response procedures: Realistic procedures for each asset type, which can be customised.

Process, shutdown and alarms

Live process picture: Pumps, compression, pressure, temperature, flow and level, with installation status.
Adjustable set points: Raise or lower process variables to trigger low-low, low, high and high-high (LL, L, H, HH) alarms.
Alarm states: Separate audible, visual, acknowledge and clear states, routed by installation or by scenario.
Shutdown and blowdown: ESD-1, ESD-2 and blowdown, with deliberate two-press activation and latching.
Safety systems: Deluge, fire pumps, HVAC, fire and gas, main and emergency power.
General alarms: GPA, fire, gas, abandon and all clear, shared across the live session.
Permit to work: Built-in PTW system. Live permits are suspended automatically on general alarm and can be reactivated.

Roles, communications and logistics

Role workspaces: Dedicated workspaces and system tools for the OIM or Emergency Manager, Deputy, Logistics, Muster Coordinator, Control Room Operator and Key Events Logger, with role names matched to your company's own.
PoB and station bills: Realistic PoB lists with a station bill for each asset, and the essential personnel roles an emergency demands, all customisable.
Live muster: Live PoB reconciliation by name, tag number and station, with primary and secondary muster points.
Changing evacuation options: Evacuation and launch stations become unavailable as the scenario develops.
Radio: Multi-channel push-to-talk radio with squelch.
Telephones: Internal and external lines that ring, answer and hang up, with scripted incoming calls.
PA: Public address announcements and general alarm broadcasts.
Soundboard and session chat: Background noise and distractions to load the team.
CCTV: Camera views controlled by the facilitator during the scenario.
Logistics and radio operator: A drag-and-place picture of multiple customised assets: standby, supply, tug, tanker and anchor-handling vessels, crew-change and medevac helicopters, vehicles, and the 500m exclusion zone.

Assessment, reporting and your organisation

Assessor and appraiser panel: OPITO guidance with OPITO audited appraisal and assessment tools built in.
Time-outs and checklists: Structured time-outs and checklists for the OIM or Emergency Manager.
Automated key events log: Every action recorded with its time from the first alarm.
Decision logging: Who decided what, and when, for the debrief.
Structured debrief: Evidence for feedback and assessment, not memory, including the learner's own account of their decisions.
Full reporting: Reporting tools built in.
Your branding: Customised to your organisation, with your own style and branding.
Knowledge base: A full knowledge base with instructions. Straightforward for anyone to use.
Secure by design: Hosted on ISO 27001 certified, SOC 2 Type II audited infrastructure, and security reviewed. Access by invitation only, with role-based permissions, data encrypted in transit and at rest, and each organisation's data kept separate.

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