BMT to provide marine instrumentation system for Shell Olympus

July 11, 2011

BMT to provide marine instrumentation system for Shell Olympus

Shell Offshore Inc. has awarded a contract to BMT Scientific Marine Services Inc 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.

 

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