Shell Offshore Inc. (“Shell”) has awarded a contract to BMT Scientific Marine Services Inc (BMT) to provide a Marine Instrumentation System (MIS) to the Olympus TLP in the Mars B Development Project in the Gulf of Mexico.
The MIS is a comprehensive computer-based system for acquiring, displaying and recording vessel, marine and environmental data for operators. It is comprised of interdependent subsystems and software applications, including Marine Instrumentation, a Tendon Instrumentation System (TIS), Ballast Monitoring, Topside Tank Level Monitoring, Human Machine Interface (HMI) displays and Historical Archive Software (HAS).
BMT brings valuable experience to this project, having successfully provided a variety of Marine Monitoring Systems on over 47 floating platforms, including prior work for Shell.
[mappress] Source:BMT , July 12, 2011; Image:Shell