Surveillance & tracking of personnel on oil rigs (Track) - Completed
Goal
The purpose of the project is surveillance and tracking of personnel on offshore installations.
Onboard an offshore installation it is very important to be able to locate personnel, if necessary, in case of emergency.
The Piper Alpha disaster in 1988 in the Scottish part of the North Sea is an example of what and how much can happen in a short space of time. A gas explosion caused total damage of the entire oil platform. The great number of human lives lost was mainly caused by human errors and could have been avoided, if safety had been the main focus.
In the past 20 years, safety on offshore installations has been the main focus, and the number of accidents has fallen dramatically. Today, the number of incidents and accidents offshore is much lower than onshore. But the safety can be improved even more. Opportunities exist thanks to the latest technology within IT systems for surveillance and tracking of personnel.
Description
Participants: Safetyeksperten, Laybourn Technology, ABB, a North Sea rig operator, Kirk Telecom (Polycom), Aalborg University Esbjerg, The Alexandra Institute, Offshore Center Danmark.
A number of Danish firms are working with surveillance and tracking technology onshore, and they want to improve safety offshore as well.
The purpose of this project is to develop such technology to be used on offshore installations.
Mile Stones
- Screening report covering opportunities and limitations
Duration: 3 months
Start: May 2008
Finish: July 2008
- Development of proto type surveillance and tracking devise
Duration: 4 months
Start: August 2008
Finish: November 2008
- Site installation and test of proto type
Duration: 6 months
Start: November 2008
Finish: May 2009
- Summary, publication and seminar
Duration: 1 month
Start: May 2009
Finish: June 2009
Results
This project will uncover and describe the opportunities and limitations for implementation.
Further, a proto type will be developed and tested offshore.
- Uncovering and description of status, barriers and examination of the surveillance and tracking devices needed offshore
- Development of proto type
- Site installation and tests of the proto type
- Summary, publication and seminar
The result of this project is that the new mobile technique used in phones is very successful in complicated offshore steel construction, so this project is a success. The system is now running in a beta version on a ship.
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