BMT Selected For Cascade Chinook Riser Tower Monitoring System
2008.08.06 -
Contracts
Petrobras America, Inc., a subsidiary of Petrobras (NYSE: PBR/PBRA), selected BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT), part of the BMT Group Ltd, as the Systems Integrator for a comprehensive integrity monitoring system for the Cascade Chinook Free Standing Hybrid Riser (FSHR) and Disconnectable Turret Buoy.
This will be the first use of a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit in the Gulf of Mexico. It will be configured with a disconnectable turret that will permit the FPSO to temporarily transit from the field to seek calmer conditions when faced with extreme weather events.
The FSHR Integrity Monitoring System's main role is to monitor the stabilizing uplift forces on five Riser Towers. It will also record Riser ,Turret Buoy and FPSO position, motion and mooring data and will continue to operate, collecting important data, even when the FPSO disconnects and leaves the field.
BMT brings valuable experience to this project gained in supplying a Free Standing Hybrid Riser Tower tension, motion and position monitoring system for Petrobras offshore Brazil. Furthermore BMT is currently engaged in several similar projects involving various combinations of subsea strain measurement, acoustic positioning, subsea motions measurement and acoustic data links.
BMT will partner with Chemtech LTDA in Brazil, who will provide software packages and Sonardyne LTd, in the UK who will supply acoustic positioning and communications equipment.
BMT Scientific Marine Services is an industry leader in the development and implementation of various offshore monitoring systems and data capturing software systems. BMT has an excellent track record in supplying 45 major Platform Integrity Monitoring Systems to operators in the Gulf of Mexico,offshore West Africa, the Campos Basin offshore Brazil and offshore Malaysia.
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