Scandinavian Oil-Gas Magazine
http://www.scandoil.com/moxie-bm2/news/satellites-to-provide-daily-monitoring-of-onshore-.shtmlSatellites to provide daily monitoring of onshore and offshore assets
Astrium Services' wholly owned subsidiary, Infoterra Ltd, has launched a new high resolution satellite imaging service that provides the oil, gas, energy and mining
Astrium Services' wholly owned subsidiary, Infoterra Ltd, has launched a new high resolution satellite imaging service that provides the oil, gas, energy and mining sector with early visibility of potential risk associated with operations.
AssetMonitor TM 'Daily Response' is the first risk management service to offer a daily revisit capability, setting a new surveillance standard in the satellite monitoring of onshore and offshore operations, and providing organisations with a clear timeline of potential drilling spills or pipeline leakage.
"The moratorium on new deepwater drilling imposed by the US Government and other recent incidents have continued to strengthen demands for a more integrated risk management approach for offshore and maritime oil operations," commented Daniel Hughes, Business Development Manager for Exploration Services at Infoterra Ltd.
"We believe that the launch of our new AssetMonitor 'Daily Response' service directly addresses the needs of oil companies, the broader energy industry and their partners in the Government and Insurance sectors for new levels of accuracy in the surveillance of offshore oil operations, and we're anticipating that AssetMonitor's 'Daily Response' service will quickly become an essential component in any fully integrated risk management approach to best practice offshore and maritime oil operations."
Infoterra's 'Daily Response' service will be offered on an annual managed services basis, and will be available for oil and exploration companies needing daily monitoring of their operations to detect changes. It will also benefit insurance firms looking for a best practice approach to managing their considerable policy risks, as well as public sector and environmental organisations needing to monitor specific operations for compliance purposes.
Unlike traditional earth observation systems that offer broad coverage and ever-finer detail, Infoterra's new 'Daily Response' service unlocks the power of satellite data such as Spot, Formosat 2 and TerraSAR-X satellites to provide customers with both high-resolution images and a daily revisit capability. The ability to acquire repeat imagery every day using the same sensor - from the same angle and under the same lighting conditions - guarantees a timely flow of compatible data. This is particularly applicable in the support of emergency incidents, where it is imperative that activities are closely monitored to assist clean-up operations.
The Formosat 2 satellite, for example, crosses the equator at 09.30am every day, increasing its chance of acquiring accurate oil spillage data in equatorial regions before convective clouds typically have a chance to form. Where there is cloud cover, TerraSAR-X synthetic aperture radar satellites, will see through clouds day and night and where needed can monitor incidents and assist emergency services in environmental clean-up operations.