Offshore surveillance system: India East Coast – ONGC

THE CHALLENGE

ONGC, and several of its partner organizations, are operating a network of offshore installations for production of crude oil around the Bay of Bengal. In 2015 they decided to search for a system to conduct effective sea and air traffic surveillance around their offshore sites, for improving safety and asset protection. The system was intended to decrease any work-related accidents, improve logistics, detect suspicious activity and enhance overall communication between stations. 

THE SOLUTION

In order to meet the needs of ONGC and its partners, Kongsberg Norcontrol proposed a customized version of C-Scope, our all-in-one platform for maritime surveillance. The scope of the project had these objectives:

Basic Objectives

• Effective sea and air traffic surveillance around the offshore installations in order to enhance overall security
• Positive identification of security cleared vessels and security cleared helicopters through AIS receiver; resulting in immediate detection of intruders
• Disaster and rescue management through optimal deployment of resources
• To establish voice communication between remote sites / centres and vessels
• Integration of several partner operator organizations into one system

Secondary objectives

• Effective management of support and other vessels. Storage data from ships for statistical purpose
• Evidence of traffic accidents by continuous recording of RADAR & AIS target data
• Aiding SAR (search and rescue)

Final contents of the system:

THE RESULT

After the final system was delivered, ONGC and its partners achieved complete surveillance of all their offshore activity in the Bay of Bengal, something that has tremendous value in relation to security and asset protection. The client has expressed strong satisfaction with the performance of the system, which is still in daily use today, only with the changes that comes from regular C-Scope updates.

Available options that can be easily integrated in C-Scope

• Oil spill detection
• Personnel tracking
• Weather observation
• Wave height measurement

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