A Web Service Oriented Integration Solution for Capital Facilities Information Handover.

The potential to obtain the correct information, manage and interchange it are some of the keys to the success of a project. In the Oil and Gas industry context, the Capital Facilities Information Handover Specifications (CFIHOS) represents an initiative to improve how information is exchanged between companies that own, operate, and build equipment for the process and energy sectors. In that sense, CFIHOS proposes a data model and a library (Reference Data Library - RDL) with standard terms for data interchange. This work presents an implementation using a subset of the CFIHOS data model in the scope of Construction of Engineering Procurement (EPC) contracts. The use case was implemented over the INSIDE system, allowing dynamic integration between heterogeneous databases using an architecture based on web services. The knowledge of extracting the information from databases and generating a spreadsheet in the CFIHOS data model was encoded in INSIDE by defining data services in the knowledge base. There are no tools that verify how much the information contained in a file complies with the CFIHOS data model and RDL information. For this reason, a prototype of a validator was implemented to verify the challenges of using CFIHOS. The developed CFIHOS Validator complements the data extraction and data verification flows according to this standard.