[SatNews] EhsWatch™ has debuted for use by oil and gas operations...

From Spatial Energy, a leading source for digital imagery, data management and services for the energy industry, EhsWatch™ is an Environmental, Health, Safety and Security Monitoring program that's offered as a subscription service. EhsWatch is a turn-key program that enables an oil and gas company to monitor the environmental impact of its operations anywhere in the world, onshore or offshore, and manage the program online for communication and collaboration purposes throughout the enterprise. The service employs airborne and satellite remote sensing platforms to acquire periodic images of production facilities, pipelines, terminals, ports and other infrastructure. Spatial Energy processes the remote sensing data, applies analytic algorithms, and makes the imagery and reports available to the subscriber on a secure web portal with 24/7 enterprise access. Images and analytics collected for EhsWatch will use Spatial Energy’s Spatial on Demand service where the images are integrated as a layer directly into their online store of geographic information.

Spatial Energy developed the first EhsWatch program in conjunction with Apache Corporation, a global oil and gas exploration company, which uses the service to monitor its assets around the world. Working with Apache, Spatial Energy devised workflow processes for on-and-offshore monitoring of all key assets globally. Each active area acquired or divested begins with acquisition of baseline imagery and then establishes a frequency of revisit by airborne or satellite sensors with spatial resolution and optical or radar imaging capabilities best suited to monitoring a particular area, site or facility.