Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Sales -- Snorre A

Provides support to the automation engineering team at Aker Solutions. EATOPS joins the 'first interactive' division working on PLC software testing & simulation.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Training -- LabView

EATOPS is following LabView trainings to test the performances of the RIVOPS runtime. A simulated alarm rate per second is used as an input to the RIVOPS OPC drivers.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Milestone -- 2-seat operator console has arrived in Graz

TUGraz will make use of a 2-seat console for the operating the BRITE satellite mission. TUGSAT-1 was successfully launched on February 25th at 1331 (CET) 2013. First successful contract occurred 3 hours after launch during the first orbital pass over Graz (Austria).

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Sales -- Transocean Searcher support

Performing an update of a Fire & Gas detection system at Kristiansund, Norway, Lat. 63 deg N.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Sales -- Scarabeo-8 Update

Performing a software update onboard Scarabeo-8, in Hammerfest, Norway, Lat. 71 deg N.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

R&D -- Back to the drawing table

Preparing the release of the console generation 4. Add-ons to the previous design such as height adjustability, embeded UHF/VHF radios & embeded power boxes.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Sales -- Scarabeo-8 test drill support - Mud Mixing CR

Providing offshore support during a 60-day test drill in Florø, Norway (latitude 61deg). Implement changes within the HMI before its journey to the North.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Sales -- Scarabeo-8 commissioning

Following the deployment of the SCARABEO-8 Mud Mixing System Human-Machine-Interface (HMI), EATOPS is invited to participate to the commissioning phase. Scheduled to take place before the rig Sea trials during Easter 2012. Part of the activity involves training of the crew.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Sales -- System Development, HMI & User Interface

EATOPS brings its expertise in the design, implementation and testing phase of intuitive graphical user interfaces for the control room of SCARABEO-8, a drilling platform heading to the exploration of the Barents Sea (Norway). EATOPS receives SCARABEO-5 operators' advice on how to automate and improve the control system.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Certification -- SchneiderElectric Vijeo Citect SCADA

EATOPS gets certified on the implementation of Vijeo Citect 7.2 from SchneiderElectric. The RIVOPS product integrates with Vijeo Citect using the Citect OPC DA Server. RIVOPS acts an alarm overview panel for the Vijeo Citect alarm list. A click in the VijeoCitect alarm list triggers the corresponding RIVOPS camera viewpoint.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Event -- QB50 2nd Workshop

RIVOPS console is deployed at the Von Karman Institute, Brussels. QB50 Cubesat constellation is made of 50 spacecrafts. During the workshop, EATOPS demonstrated a live satellite pass to illustrate the load of information to which the operator is exposed. The concept of multiple-asset monitoring is introduced using the RIVOPS overview panel. Each spacecraft is one click away from the operator stylus driven tablet (in the middle).

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Milestone -- SSBV Ground Segment commissioning

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EATOPS delivers SSBV with a UHF/VHF & S-Band Ground Station for CubeSat mission. The control room is equiped with a 4-seat console. The installation is currently being used daily as a subordinated control center for the SwissCube mission.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Event -- Talk at Autonomi in IO conference

Safer operations through autonomy.  EATOPS participates as a key-speaker to the conference. >> Download << the programme of the conference.

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Milestone -- Delivery of TOTAL E&P

EATOPS Sarl together with UReason International B.V. delivers TOTAL Exploration & Production Akpo.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Sales -- Environment Control Centre

EATOPS is contracted to establish the requirements of an environment expert centre in the Offshore Oil & Gas industry.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Milestone -- Commissioning of the SwissCube-1 control room

Successful handshake between the spacecraft and the Noordwijk (NL) control room. This control room is connected to the central servers in Lausanne (CH) via an internet link. The spacecraft telemetry is received through a local VHF-UHF-SBand antenna.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Milestone -- Delivery of a multi-mission ground segment

Innovative Solutions in Space - ISIS is delivered with a 2-seat console. This release of the product handles the monitoring and control of two CubeSats in parallel. The overview matrix acts as system switch as well as high level summary. It displays the spacecraft IDs distinguishing online/offline, fault/nominal, selected/unselected systems to be monitored. All functionalities are made available for the Oil&Gas industry enabling the monitoring of several offshore platforms in parallel. For more information about the RIVOPS multi-mission please contact us info @ eatops.com.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

R&D -- Release of the console generation 3

Fully made of aluminium, curved console with sliding monitor mechanism. The console is shipped in a cardboard container to the integration site.

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Alexandre Van Damme Alexandre Van Damme

Event -- ONS Oil & Gas conference

Meet us at the ONS in Stavanger, Norway. The largest Oil & Gas exhibition in Scandinavia. August 24-27th. 

EATOPS uses space technology to monitor offshore oil and gas fields. Read more about the article published in the ONS Space and Energy magazine.

A presentation of the RIVOPS Alarm monitoring system is presented at the VisCo stand showing an integration for the fire & gas detection panel of the B11 Ekofisk oil field.

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