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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.