Recent Experience
Seismic and Exploration Drilling Studies
| Study | Location | Client |
| Seismic Planning | Eastern Timor Sea | Woodside |
| Exploration Drilling | Gulf of Papua | Oil Search |
| Metocean Data | Browse Basin | Apache, Japex, Inpex, Chevron |
| Metocean Data | Eastern Great Australian Bight | Shell, BHPP |
| Exploration Drilling | Central Bass Strait | Premier Oil |
| Exploration Drilling | Deepwater Permits off NWS | Esso, BHPP, Woodside |
| Metocean Data | Taranaki Bight | Cultus |
| Exploration Drilling | NW Kyushu | WNI Japan |
| Study | Location | Client |
| Tassi Shoal | Timor Sea | Methanol Australia |
| Thylacine | Otway Basin | Woodside |
| Baleen | NE Bass Strait | OMV |
| Gipsy | East Barrow Island | Apache |
| Kakap | Natuna Island | Gulf |
| Bayu/Undan | Timor Sea (Shelf) | Phillips |
| Gorgon/Chrysaor | West of Barrow | Chevron |
| Sangu | Bay of Bengal | Cairn Energy |
| Campbell | NE Barrow | Apache |
| Poleng | NE Java | Kvaerner |
| Study | Location | Client |
| Ichthys | NW Shelf | Inpex |
| Montara | Timor Sea | Coogee Resources |
| Scarborough | NW Shelf | BHP Billiton |
| Stybarrow | NW Shelf | BHP Billiton |
| Enfield | NW Shelf | Woodside |
| Jansz | NW Shelf | ChevronTexaco |
| Woolybutt | NW Shelf | AGIP |
| Chinguetti | Mauritania, W Africa | Woodside |
| Laminaria | Timor Sea (Deep) | Woodside |
| Bayu/Undan | Timor Sea (Shelf) | Phillips |
| Gorgon/Chrysaor | West of Barrow | Chevron |
| Rang Dong | Off Vietnam | WNI Japan |
| Study | Location | Client |
| Bayu Undan | Timor Sea | Conoco Phillips |
| Sunrise | Timor Sea | Woodside |
| Blacktip | Bonapart Gulf | Woodside |
| Otway | Otway Basin | Woodside |
| Jansz | NW Shelf | ChevronTexaco |
| Scarborough | NW Shelf | BHP Billiton |
| Ichthys | Timor Sea | Inpex |
| Angostura | Trinidad | BHP Billiton |
| Minerva | Western Bass Strait | BHPP |
| Gorgon | Southern NWS | Chevron |
| Scott Reef | Kimberley Shelf | Woodside |
| NRA 2nd Trunkline | Dampier - North Rankin | Woodside |
| Sangu | NE Bay of Bengal | Cairn Energy |
| Lihir | SW Pacific | Clough |
| Wonnich | West of Barrow | Apache |
| Shell Sri Lanka LPG | Colombo | Clough |
| Gipsy | NE Barrow | Apache |
| Study | Location | Client |
| Coastal Erosion Study | Brunei | SPECS |
| Whale World Breakwater | Albany WA | Maunsell |
| Alnassim Waterway | Saudi Arabia | Maunsell |
| Serasa Spit | Brunei | SPECS |
| Port Harbour Currents | Port Hedland | PHPA |
| Bunkering Locations | Hong Kong | HK Poly Uni |
| Port Development | Cape Preston | Clough |
| Long Waves | Geraldton | Worley |
| Flowline Launch | Mardi | Brown & Root |
| Maitland Estate | Mermaid Sound | Dept Res. Dev. |
| Wastewater Outfall | Bunbury | DA Lord & Assoc. |
| LNG Berth | Mermaid Sound | Worley |
| Harbour Situation | Port Hedland | HGM |
| Glyde Point | NE Darwin | Shell |
| Port Development | Oakajee | Worley |
| Swell Transformation | Mermaid Sound | DSTO |
| Study | Location | Client |
| Rig Tow | Tasman Sea | OMV |
| Bass Gas Tow Route | Singapore to Yolla | Clough |
| Rig Tow | Texas to Argentina | WNI USA |
| Rig Tow | Batan to Ulsan | WNI Korea |
| Rig Tow | WA Coast | ROC Oil |
| Bayu/Undan | ex Abu Dhabi, ex Korea, ex SE Australia | Phillips |
| Gladstone Tow | ex Luzon | Bechtel |
| Rig Tow | Vic/SA Coast | Santa Fe |
| Laminaria | ex Korea, ex Singapore, ex Fremantle | Woodside |
| Study | Location | Client |
| Al Khafji Marina | Saudi Arabia | Worley |
| Tasi Shoal Thermal Discharge | Timor Sea | Methanol Australia |
| Bunbury Waste Water | Bunbury WA | Water Corporation |
| Effluent | Brunei | Shell |
| Oil Spill | Gulf
of Papua Bass Strait Timor Sea J Bonaparte Gulf NW Shelf Gulf of Thailand |
Oil
Search Qest, OMV RBT,Cultus Santos Mobil Unocal |
| Brine | Timor SeaMermaid SoundNichol Bay | BHPPBBGDames & Moore |
| Sediment | Mermaid Sound | DRD |
| Dredge Spoil | Nichol Bay | Dames & Moore |
- Ichthys - Metocean buoy, wave, currents and growth plates in 250m of water for 12 months.
- Scarborough - Metocean buoy, waves and currents in 900m of water for 12 months.
- South China Sea - Waves and Currents along Brunei Coastline during the monsoon season.
- Gnarlyknot - Waves and Metbuoy in 1500m of water still in progress.
- Mauritainia - Waves, currents, meteorological buoy, on shore meteorological station in 650m of water for 12 months.
- Ceduna - Currents and Wave measurements in 1500m of water for 12 months.
- Equatorial Guinea - Currents, waves, tides, ADCP and biology in 850m of water for 6 months.
- Miri - Currents in 50m of water for 3 months.
- Phuket - Currents and ADCPs in 800m of water for 2 months.
- Laminaria - meteorological, wave, current, tide and temperature measurements for FPSO flexible riser and flow-line design.
- 2nd Trunkline - current, tide, water temperature and internal wave measurements for gas trunkline design and recertification.
- Namibia - wave measurements (including satellite data transmission) and associated environmental studies for port and harbour design.
- Glyde Point - meteorological, wave, current (using COSRAD radar and moored/vessel mount ADCP), and tide measurements to facilitate LNG plant design and operation.
- Gorgon - deep water (>1000 m) to shore wave, current, tide and water temperature measurements for platform, pipeline and subsea completion design and operability.
- Jansz - deep water (>1300 m) wave and current measurements to facilitate drilling.
- Timor Sea Study - teaming with CSIRO and ADFA on a multi-disciplinary oceanographic measurements study to quantify tidal mixing and exchange on the NW Australian continental shelf.
- ARC project - measurement of near-seabed currents, turbidity, particle velocities and pressure fields to quantify boundary layer characteristics.
- Bali Strait - current and water temperature measurements (including vessel mount ADCP) in currents of up to 3.5 m s-1 to facilitate optical fibre cable-laying operations.
- ROWS - tropical cyclone swell prediction and underkeel clearance system to support Woodside's LNG gas operations at Dampier (pilots carry their own notebook displays).
- REMS - LAN-based (data-share) metocean system installed at various platforms, FPSOs, heliports and other coastal facilities in Australia and SE Asia (eg Goodwyn A, Cossack Pioneer, North Rankin A, Stag Platform).
- MEMS - LAN-based metocean monitoring system, including display of tanker mooring line tensions, to facilitate tanker berthing operations (eg Woodside's LNG plant at Dampier).
- SPM System - metocean monitoring systems for measuring winds, waves and hawser loads onboard SPMs to support tanker operations (e.g. Mobil's oil refinery at Port Stanvac in Adelaide).
- VEMS - monitoring of winds, waves, vessel speed and vessel motions (6 degrees of freedom) to optimise vessel design and performance (eg fishing vessel for Malaysian University of Technology).
- Rig-mount ADCP - monitoring of ocean currents using acoustic doppler current profilers mounted on drilling rigs and production platforms to facilitate oil and gas drilling operations (eg Esso's Blackback field, Bass Strait; Kerr McGee, Andaman Sea).
- Port Monitoring System - monitoring of winds, waves, currents and tides to facilitate port operations and underkeel clearance calculations (eg ports of Fremantle, Geraldton, Port Hedland, Stanvac, Hobart, Dampier and Bintulu).
- Mine
Site Monitoring System -
meteorological systems at various sites in Australia and SE Asia to
monitor air quality and associated environmental parameters (eg Capel,
Worsley, Naringal, Pinjarra, Victoria, Singapore).