Offshore Production Increasing

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Offshore Production Increasing

• 30 U.S. oil production is offshore increasing
• Going to deeper water

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Offshore Regions of Interest
Beaufort
NE Atlantic
Sakhalin
Canada
Caspian
Persian Gulf
Gulf
SE Asia
Venez.
W. Africa
NW Shelf
Brazil
Gulf of Mexico is the primary U.S. offshore
region with substantial activity
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Industry Needs for Remote Sensed Data

• MetOcean (e.g. waves)
• Real-time operations
• Severe weather
• Model hindcasts forecasts
• Environmental
• Baseline (before/after)
• Vegetation mapping
• Subsidence
• Geomorphology
• Existing Examples
• Gulf of Mex. Loop
• W. Africa swell
• Kazak. vegetation

Operations
Design
Tows
Environmental
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We Use Data Every Day
Eddy Triton
Loop Current
Hurricane Ivan
Eddy Triton the Loop Current
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Key Existing Sensors

• MetOcean Optical Sensors (GOES, etc.)
• Severe storm forecasting
• Loop Current (Gulf of Mex.)
• Altimeter (Topex, etc.)
• Wave heights
• Loop Current (Gulf of Mex.)
• Scatterometer - winds
• SAR
• Subsidence
• Directional waves
• Loop Current
• Oil spills
• LandSat Hyperspectral
• Vegetation changes
• Geomorphological changes
• Cultural changes
• Ice tracking climatology

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Benefits to the Oil Industry

• Specific benefits
• Hurricane storm forecasts
• Oil spill response
• Design operation efficiency
• Resulting in reductions in
• Loss of life
• Accidental spills
• Other environmental impacts
• Operational downtime
• Capital costs for new facilities

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Gulf of Mexico Soon to be Ideal Metocean
Test Site

• 30 of US Oil Production
• Industry will have 40 active deepwater sites
  next year
• MMS to require current profiles next year
• Data likely to feed into IOOS
• Presently 4 active data-assimilative current
  models

Indicates existing site, future site, Shell
site
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Future Needs

• Satellites
• LandSat replacement
• Taskable hyperspectra
• SAR or equivalent
• Atlimeters
• Products
• Directional waves
• Release data sooner (not just for
  researchers!)