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R/V Western PATRIOT
Year of Construction: 1993
Length: 78 m (255.8 ft)
Beam: 17 m (55.8
ft)
Draft: 5.4 m (17.8 ft)
Tonnage: 3,586 gross/1,076 net
Cruising
Speed: 14 knots
Cruising Range: 21,000+ nautical miles
Acquisition
Capability: 2D, 3D & 4D |
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WesternGeco is the world's
largest seismic services company created in December 2000 by a merger of
seismic subsidiaries within Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB) and Baker Hughes (NYSE:
BKR). On 28 December 2000 the WesternGeco seismic vessel R/V Western Patriot
completed the first marine seismic survey sea-trial with SpaceData's
SeismicStar Service. Working off the coast of Brazil the Patriot has
transferred 13 Tb of marine seismic data directly from shipboard to
Houston. During this trial, SeismicStar transferred a one-day record of 422 Gb
directly from the deck of the Patriot.
The Western Patriot was
the first seismic vessel in the world to be equipped with a SeismicStar
Terminal including a 2.4 meter SeaTel marine tracking antenna & Radome
assembly and over 1 Tb of RAID storage for shipboard seismic data cache
storage, dual Sun Microsystems servers with latest Sun updates, dual FORE
Systems ATM switches and dual NewTec modems along with custom software for
Monitor & Control (M&C). Equipped with SpaceData's SeismicStar, this
WesternGeco vessel very securely transferred a daily average of over 80 Gb
of uncompressed back to WesternGeco supercomputers in Houston for final
processing and dramatically quicker delivery to customers.
With
SeismicStar Services, a marine seismic vessel can uplink a complete days
acquisition of seismic data directly from the vessel to any one of
a worldwide fleet of NASA TDRS satellites and immediately downlink to
SpaceData's facilities and site at NASA's White Sands, New Mexico ground
stations. Directly from White Sands, seismic data can be transferred
to almost anywhere in the world in seconds utilizing fiber connectivity or optional Wide Area Network (WAN). |
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