BlueDeal - Environmental monitoring for drilling campaigns
A turn-key environmental monitoring service for drilling campaigns and shorter operations in sensitive areas. We customize a monitoring and detection scheme based on your functional requirements, and conduct the 24/7 monitoring and reporting on behalf of our clients.
The BlueDeal environmental monitoring service is tailor made for drilling campaigns conducted in sensitive environmental areas, where there are strict requirements and strong expectations for control and documentation in terms of:
- Personnel safety
- Acute pollution
- Presence of birds and mammals
- Presence of ice
- Effects on the local eco-system
The BlueDeal is a systematic approach to show and quantify clean operation, safe working environments and control of the surrounding wildlife. Benefit from the extensive track record of the skilled and experienced personnel at NORBIT Aptomar, which will take direct technical and operational responsibility for the environmental monitoring, ensuring and documenting compliance with chosen requirements
Together with the professionals at NORBIT Aptomar, our clients have access to a large number of monitoring schemes, sensors, detection systems and work procedures, all implemented and operationalised in close collaboration with the involved personnel onshore and offshore. To ensure easy access to a large and complex operation, the customer can access it all through their online, easy-to-use BlueDeal customer portal.
Three steps for implementing the BlueDeal
- Vessels, objects or ice on collision course
- Clean to operate; oil spill monitoring, detection and reporting
- Birds and mammal monitoring and detection
- Radar on installation, vessel(s) or satelite
- Infrared and dayligh cameras, handheld or fixed, on installation or vessel(s)
- Binoculars or nose
- Manuals, work procedures and training
- Set up online customer portal
- Follow up- or perform the monitoring from Aptomarin Maritime Control Center
Why BlueDeal?
- Meet license requirements
- Low cost
- Systematic approach to show and quantify environmental monitoring
- Cost efficient by utilizing existing sensors and offshore crew
- Complete reporting package for internal and external usage
- Training and follow up of involved crew
- Short term rental of equipment
- Delivered as an OPEX service
No matter the length of your drilling campaign, let NORBIT Aptomar create a tailor-made monitoring and reporting scheme for your upcoming operation. We take responsibility to meet the given requirements and to manage the needed technical and operational setup, delivering exactly what the client requires; an alarm, a report and documentation of an operation under control.
The following components can be combined in the BlueDeal monitoring service
Oil spill detection
- Document an operation without any unintended oil spills
- Detect unintended oil spills on sea surface from production within a chosen timeline
Monitoring of Birds and Mammal
- Reporting and statistics Effectuate counter measures
- Detect, identify and count birds and mammals in the area of interest
Vessel on collision course
- Detect and notify on vessels on collision course
- Monitor, document, and alert on the activity outside the safety and precaution zones Documentation and reporting on activity and incidents
Ice detection
- Detect and monitor free floating, incoming or nearby ice (growlers, bergy bits, ice bergs)
- Establish common operating picture with ice management personnel and resources Threat assessment, alerts, and report on conditions, incidents and accidents
All available online through your BlueDeal portal
Through the online web-based BlueDeal customer portal our clients have a quick and easy access to the deliverables of the service. Here you will access both live and compiled data from your operation, including:
- Hourly, daily and weekly reports
- End-of-well or yearly sustainability report
- Acute spill to sea reports
- Communication plan
- Procedures, manuals, service reports
- Oil spill detection and contingency plan
- Live reports and data updated by the hour
- “Blue statistics” – live graphing of the data gathered through the service
- WebAccess with live vessel tracking and access to remote sensing and GIS data
What is included in the service?
On your behalf, as part of the service, Aptomar will take responsibility and manage all the tasks needed to deliver the agreed service. These include:
- Onshore and offshore sensors, software and reporting tools
- Installation, setup and commissioning of chosen sensors, equipment and systems
- Operation-specific process description and work procedures
- Training and follow-up of involved personnel
- 24/7 monitoring, detection and notification
- Reporting and documentation