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A Workshop within OGP MetOcean Committee, JIP week . Monday 2^nd October.

At Tour TOTAL COUPOLE (Formerly TOUR ELF), La Defense, PARIS

Session 1 - INTRODUCTION - What satellite data can bring

1. General overview of available satellite info addressing this issue, and the COMKISS project, by Tom Allan, Satellite Observing Systems.
2. Ocean Data for Operational Applications from ESA Missions, by Jerome Benveniste, ESA/ESRIN

Session 2 — Case Studies

(NB Web presentations of the case studies are under preparation, look at web pages as indicated

Presentation of COMKISS demonstration cases on unconventional transports:

1. Near real time: Sea State Alarm, San Francisco - Guam cable laying, by Cees Leenaars, Dockwise.
2. Sea State Alarm — NLG Lagos, Magdala, John Bateman, STASCO

Lunch break

Session 3 - Design and Operational Support - Information about other COMKISS results:

1. Design methods: Comparison of the IMDSS, Global Wave Statistics and CLIOSat data for the Voyage Acceleration Climate on some typical routes, by Cees Leenaars, Dockwise
2. Design criteria for ships (fatigue on given routes) presented by Michel Olagnon, IFREMER
3. Checking for fail safe conditions, presented by Michel Olagnon, IFREMER
4. Near real time satellite information for High Speed Crafts, by Raymond Nerzic, Optimer.
5. Surface currents: Satellite data for near real time surface current prediction, by David Cotton, Satellite Observing Systems.

Session 4 - Perspectives

1. COMKISS and SAFETRANS follow-on projects: COMKIAS , by Cees Leenaars / David Cotton

OGP JIP week - Paris, TotalFinaElf, 2^nd Oct. 2000

COMKISS Workshop - Conclusions

Introduction

COMKISS participants were pleased to discuss their results, receive industry comments, and plan accordingly additional research with the members of the SAFETRANS JIP of the Metocean Committee of the OGP (International Association of Oil and Gas Producers) in a workshop during the autumn JIP week hosted by TotalFinaElf in Paris.

General observations

• Satellite data are useful to the industry, but satellites by themselves do not solve any problems, and even more, the satellite data, when they come out of the space agencies, still require significant efforts before they can be used. It should be noted that space agencies should thus not expect funding helps from the industry for the launch of additional satellites.
• Oil industry buys metocean services from providers, they do not develop them in-house, and funding can only be expected when the outcome of a project is implementing a consensus on risk assessment and safety criteria.
• The COMKIAS proposal could fit in the latter framework, and benefit from an opportunity to fill a gap left open by SAFETRANS.
• A high priority is separate information on swell and sea.
• Good presentation to ensure that ships officers will make use of a service is essential. The data can be of the highest quality, but if they are not presented in an accessible form, then they will not be used.
• Once confidence is lost in a product then it can be very difficult to regain it

Suggested Follow-ups

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