Oil Spill Detection and Monitoring
Mitigate environmental risks with unique offshore insight
Pollution incidents associated with offshore oil and gas infrastructure and vessels can have significant and far-reaching environmental, societal and business impacts.
Viridien’s SeaScope service increases knowledge on the presence, characteristics and behavior of oil pollution in marine and coastal environments by combining deep interpretative understanding with the unique spatial, spectral and textural information contained within historical and frequently acquired contemporary satellite images.
SeaScope’s proactive monitoring enables early detection of oil spill events to strengthen situational awareness and mitigate offshore pollution risk, delivering greater visibility of the interaction between offshore assets, coastal facilities, local vessel activity and the natural marine environment.
From drilling to decommissioning, SeaScope provides critical sea surface slick intelligence, the establishment of production water baselines, surveillance of third-party incidents, and creation of a growing evidence base of responsible operations across global offshore asset portfolios.
SPE Tech Talk: Above and Beyond
In this SPE Tech Talk, Offshore Energy and Environment Manager Will Jeffery discusses how satellites can be used as a significant tool to meet the wide-ranging social-economic and environmental demands associated with operating in the maritime industry.
Oil Spill Monitoring Across Offshore Energy Assets
With advanced processing and analysis of remotely captured satellite data backed by over 25 years’ experience, SeaScope gives energy companies critical environmental awareness.
- Insight from a credible, unbiased source: Proprietary processing, analysis and unique taxonomy built on globally trusted remote sensing expertise
- Wide-area monitoring on a global scale: High-frequency satellite data translated into an actionable stream of intelligence
- Transparent record of responsible activity: Evidence base of responsible operations to support environmental and operational transparency measures and related ESG commitments
- Baselining for offshore operations: Reliable production water benchmarks associated with routine operations; compare assets across a global portfolio through systematic auditing
- Faster response through early detection: Quicker qualification and subsequent incident response through early alerts when spills do occur
- Seamless data integration and visualization: Software-agnostic geospatial deliverables for in-house systems or available via an intuitive online portal
Incident investigations and reactive oil spill monitoring
Our retrospective pollution incident studies and critically prioritized monitoring programs provide unique and independent insight into offshore oil spills, enabling clients to improve surface surveillance capabilities in a crisis situation and mitigate pollution risk associated with offshore operations.
We utilize our best-in-class expertise to identify, locate potential origins and quantify observed oil spills, through the advanced processing and analysis of the widest choice of multi-mission satellite imagery.
