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Vissim’s Monitoring System to Enhance Safety of DMO Safety Tech to Continue Serving North Sea

Qatar’s Ofshore Assets Oil and Gas Operator

Norwegian technology company Vissim has signed a Safety technology provider Dräger Marine & Offshore contract to deliver its Centralized Vessel Monitoring and (DMO) will provide its portable gas detection and breath-

Alerting System (CVMAS) to Qatar, designed to enhance ing apparatus systems to a major North Sea oil and gas safety and security for offshore assets. operator as part of the long-term contract extension.

CVMAS improves effciency in vessel logistics and con- Due to run for fve-years, with a further two one-year tributes towards reduced CO2 emissions and increased extension options, the extension of the existing supply maritime situational awareness contract means more than 10 U.K. North Sea assets will

The system will provide comprehensive monitoring and continue to beneft from Dräger’s portable gas detection alerting capabilities, covering Qatar’s coastline and more and breathing apparatus systems.

than 300 offshore assets. Dräger offers a wide portfolio of respiratory protective

The core of Vissim’s technology is a specially designed equipment from light respiratory masks, powered-air pu- software platform which, through input from millions rifying respirators and airline systems, to heavy respiratory of data points, provides situational awareness of the geo- protection, such as breathing apparatuses. For monitoring graphical area and increases understanding of maritime the respiratory protection of emergency and rescue teams, safety, security, and effciency. boards and telemetry systems are also made available.

In Qatar, Vissim’s CVMAS integrates various data sources, As for the handheld gas detectors, the company’s portfo- including the automatic vessel identifcation system (AIS), lio includes single-gas and multi-gas detectors, gas detector weather data from platforms like Storm and Vaisala, and tubes as well as calibration and bump testing equipment radar technology, to provide a detailed maritime overview. and software packages.

Additionally, CVMAS integrates with maritime tools “Health and safety should be of the upmost importance and platforms, including personnel and logistics manage- to any business, whether that be in offshore oil and gas or ment systems such as SkyTrac and DaWinci, and geo- otherwise, and by engaging DMO’s services for a minimum graphic mapping tools like ArcGIS. This integration also of fve-years the operator is underscoring its long-term com- includes monitoring helicopter traffc and personnel on- mitment to upholding the sector’s high standards,” said Law- board offshore assets, further enhancing operational safety rie Kerr, UK Sales Manager, Dräger Marine and Offshore.

and effciency.

Vissim is delivering the system as a subcontractor to Qatar-

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