Serious Games for role-playing crisis preparedness and response in the Oil & Gas Industry
Via: Engineering Computer Simulations (ECS) - ECS
Offers Crisis Response Simulation Training Solutions for Offshore Safety
ECS
announced on Monday they are unveiling their Crisis Response Simulation
for the first time at the Offshore Technology Conference 2013 running
May 6-9 at Reliant Park in Houston, Texas. Over 80,000 attendees and more than
2,500 exhibitors are expected to attend OTC, and ECS shall be the only modeling
and simulation company exhibiting on the showroom floor.
According
to Waymon Armstrong, President, ECS has the potential to transform crisis
response training in the oil and gas industry.
The Crisis
Response Simulation, or CRS, is a web-based Serious
Game that immerses players in realistic scenarios to cover decisions that impact the preservation of life, the
support of affected family members, rig stability, communication and social
media, mitigation of legal risks and other obligations that appear in a crisis management
situation.
CRS is customizable to a broad set of scenarios that represent the current
offshore or onshore upstream, mid-stream, and downstream oil and gas industry.
Its capabilities were designed in conjunction with the expectations set forth
by the International Association of Drilling Contractors and will adapt in real
time based on players performance.
Each
role-player from the Rig Operator up through the Crisis Management Team and Senior
Leadership can exercise separately or together for a high impact event.
According to ECS website, they can remotely conduct team-training exercises
with up to 200 participants at a time. CRS exercises can be geographically
distributed for any organization at any time and will track and assess the
leader’s proficiency in taking steps to preserve life, communication with media
and stakeholders, minimizing legal issues, and completion of documentation
necessary to excel in times of crisis response recover.
About Engineering &
Computer Simulations (ECS)
Engineering
& Computer Simulations, Inc. is a
leading provider of Educational Serious Games and simulation, interactive
performance assessment tools, mobile learning environments and enterprise-wide information
management systems, located in Orlando, Florida.
ECS was
incorporated in 1997 to provide advanced learning technologies;
multi-disciplinary engineering and IT services; and project management support
services for the government and commercial sectors.
ECS is
organized into four business units: Defense and Homeland Security, Other
Government Agencies and Academia, Commercial and Corporate, and Research and
Development.
The
company's technology portfolio of crisis response solutions includes: crisis
response simulations, safety and competency based technology, immersive virtual
worlds, serious gaming, performance assessment, staff training, and mobile
innovations.