MSI Orders AXYS Buoy for Oil Field Development

AXYS Technologies Inc. (AXYS) has secured a contract with its Australian partner Metocean Services International Pty Ltd. (MSI), to provide and deploy a 3-meter ODAS (Ocean Data Acquisition System) buoy and a Subsurface Sentinel mooring in support of a major oil field development in Northern Australia. The systems are designed to satisfy the long term operational requirement of metocean monitoring in the field and report data in real time.

AXYS’ 3-meter buoy was selected as the platform of choice for the harsh marine environment given its reputation as a reliable buoy commonly deployed in areas prone to hurricane conditions. The buoy will be accompanied by a Subsurface Sentinel mooring designed to acquire temperature readings through the 250m water column. The Subsurface Sentinel mooring uses AXYS’ WatchMan500 controller to manage an inductive modem solution to gather the temperature readings in the water column and an acoustic modem to transmit the data to the 3-meter buoy. The 3-meter buoy acquires the temperature and system diagnostic data from the Subsurface Sentinel mooring via acoustic modem and relays it, along with directional wave data and a water column profile of current speed and direction, to the nearby platform via UHF radio where the data is ingested into the Data Management System (DMS) software.

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