Wireless Farm Area Network for Rice Field Research
The Rice Research
Australia Pty Ltd (RRAPL) needed to conduct detailed remote
monitoring of rice fields in Jerilderie, near Wagga in New
South Wales, to determine the best conditions for
commercial rice production. They installed two Remote
Telemetry Units (RTU) as well as various field sensors to
capture this information but needed a communications
network to relay the information to the RRAPL office. The
resultant network will be used to remotely control various
equipment used in farming. URSYS, a specialist in satellite
and radio telecommunications, decided on a wireless farm
area network which is mobile, could be set up quickly, need
no cables to be laid, and most importantly, could be
remotely managed. More info:
http://www.smartbridges.com/css/articles.asp?id=491
The Ocean Patriot drill rig - Tui oil development.
In conjunction with
specialist contractors Marine Navaid Systems in Sydney, URSYS
won the contract to supply and install a 1.2M SeaTel
stabilised Platform VSAT onto the Oil Exploration rig "Ocean
Patriot". This rig is currently exploring for Oil and Gas off
of the east Coast of New Zealand. URSYS choose to use space
segment provided by IPSTAR and directly linked their Auckland
Teleport to the Oil Exploration Companies production office in
New Plymouth. The service provides 4 Extension Phone lines
back to the Plymouth PBX and High speed Unlimited Internet
Data Access to the management on the rig.
Sydney-headquartered Australian Worldwide
Exploration (AWE) announced on the 22nd of November 2006 that
the semi-submersible Ocean Patriot drilling rig had "spudded"
Tieke-1 at 2.30am and that by 6am the rig was preparing to run
and cement 30-inch conductor casing at a measured depth of
229m.
The well will be drilled to a planned total
depth of 3600m, in water 122m deep. It is expected to take 18
days on a trouble-free basis. Tieke-1 is only about 8km from
the Tui oil pool and is in the Tui Area licence, roughly 40km
offshore.
Following completion of operations at
Tieke-1, the Ocean Patriot will start drilling the first of
four development wells on the $US225 million ($A292 million)
Tui Area oil project. Tieke-1 and the second scheduled
near-field appraisal well, Taranui-1, could more than double
total Tui Area reserves, currently estimated at 27.9 million
barrels, with Tieke delivering up to 15MMbbl. Tieke and
Taranui are less than 15km from the Tui floating processing,
storage and off-take vessel site, so any discovery could be
quickly brought to production by tying in to the Umuroa
FPSO.
URSYS Pty Ltd maintains
24 × 7 VoIP Telephony and Unlimited
Internet service to the Ocean Patriot using a SeaTel
Stabilised platform via satellite coverage provided by IPSTAR
over New Zealand.
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