Satellite Monitoring During Drilling of the Zaedeus Exploration Well Offshore French Guiana

Date/Time:

14 Mar 2012
16:00-16:30

Location:

South Galleries

Seminar Details
This paper provides a summary of a nine month satellite monitoring programme provided by Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) of Tullow Oil's exploration drilling of the Zaedeus well in the Guiane Maritime License offshore French Guiana. The monitoring programme involved the acquisition of radar images every 1-3 days and Quickbird optical imagery every 7 days depending on cloud-cover. The performance of the individual satellites and respective data providers, as well as contrasting image characteristics depending on data type i.e. wavelength, incidence angle, beam mode and spatial resolution are reviewed. The project included acquisition of 117 radar images and 16 optical images and provides an important baseline from which to evaluate the application of the service.