Satellite-based monitoring of TPIs and methane-emissions for The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago

Next to satellite-based monitoring of Third Party Interferences in pipeline corridors, Orbital Eye also monitors assets of pipeline operators for possible methane emissions using satellite data! For this, Orbital Eye works together with GHGSAT, a Canada-based company, providing high-resolution remote-sensing of greenhouse gas from space.

In the past years, we have monitored the pipeline, and several assets of The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) to detect Third Party Interferences and any possible methane emissions. Especially for remote areas, satellite-based monitoring is an efficient monitoring method, as it does not require on-site presence. In case a Third Party Interference or an emission was detected, personnel of NGC went on-site to take mitigating measures.

In this case study, Orbital Eye, GHGSAT, and The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited present how NGC has adopted satellite-based monitoring, along with the results, and the value this has brought to NGC!

In the next years, NGC will continue to monitor its assets for Third Party Interferences and methane emissions using satellite data – staying at the forefront of using innovative technology to keep the islands of Trinidad and Tobago safe, and keep the environment clean!

Orbital Eye in Canada: Satellite Pipeline Monitoring and Global Energy Show Visit 🇨🇦🚀

This week, Sven van Haver and Arnaud van den Berg are visiting Canada! 🇨🇦

It has already been a busy first half of the week, as we met with multiple customers and other pipeline operators to discuss satellite-based pipeline monitoring and met with our partner SkyWatch. Today, Sven and Arnaud are visiting the Global Energy Show. If you’re visiting the show as well, make sure to send them a message!

Orbital Eye’s Team-Building Sailing Adventure ⛵️

Yesterday Orbital Eye team spent the day sailing on the IJsselmeer during the yearly team event. ⛵️

It was a very relaxing day in which the team got to know each other outside of work as well – which was especially nice as we have quite a few new team members, who now got to know the team while sailing, swimming, BBQ’ing and Greek dancing! We also visited Volendam where we introduced our colleagues from almost 10 different nationalities to Volendam’s traditional costumes. A great way to relax in the busy period that Orbital Eye is currently facing! 🥳

And now, back to work to ensure that critical infrastructure is kept safe all over the world! 🛰

Reflecting on the Past, Embracing the Future: Orbital Eye’s Recent Events Highlights

Looking back and to the future!

This week, Orbital Eye visited two events – on one event, the alumni reunion of the Space Business Innovation Centre Noordwijk, Orbital Eye went back to its roots, as Orbital Eye was part of the ESA BIC program in its early days.

At the other event, the Career Event at the Delft University of Technology, we looked to the future – as we met many enthusiastic students with great potential to be future colleagues!

Orbital Eye welcomes Alexis, our most recent ML Integration Engineer.

We’re happy to have another new team member on-board: Alexis Guillot joined the Orbital Eye team this month as a Machine Learning Integration Engineer. Alexis’ experience in integrating machine learning models into production, will be essential for further scaling of our satellite-based monitoring solution – ensuring that any critical infrastructure network, no matter its size, can be monitored from space.

We’re very happy to have you on the team Alexis! 🚀

Orbital Eye Presents at ‘Congreso de Mantenimiento’ in Tarragona

This week, Arnaud and Afonso attended the ‘Congreso de Mantenimiento’ in Tarragona, by invitation of Enagás.

We learned about the latest updates around pipeline monitoring in Spain, we presented about COSMIC-EYE and the fruitful collaboration we’ve been having with Enagas during the past years. Besides, we presented how COSMIC-EYE is the way forward for monitoring hydrogen pipelines.

With the growing interest in sustainable energy, more and more existing gas infrastructure is transformed into hydrogen pipelines, and several new hydrogen pipelines are constructed as well. The impact of damage to a hydrogen pipeline can be way larger than the impact on gas pipelines, which is why those pipelines need more frequent monitoring. Therefore, pipeline operators are actively looking for sustainable monitoring solutions to keep these pipelines safe. We presented how satellite-based monitoring with COSMIC-EYE offers both frequent and sustainable monitoring!

We had a wonderful time at the congress, and here are some image highlights from our time at the conference and in the beautiful city of Tarragona.

¡Adiós! 🇪🇸

PTC Berlin 2023 – We are here!

And we’re here! 🇩🇪


Excited to be at the 18th Pipeline Technology Conference (ptc) in Berlin! It will be a few interesting days of catching up with industry trends and old and new contacts.

Besides, Arnaud van den Berg and Afonso Duarte will be happy to discuss the latest developments at Orbital Eye and to talk about how more and more pipeline operators are adopting satellite-based monitoring.

Orbital Eye Attends ‘Congreso AEM 2023’ in Tarragona, Spain

We’re thrilled to announce that Orbital Eye will be attending ‘Congreso AEM 2023’ in Tarragona, Spain from May 17th to May 19th, organized by the Spanish Maintenance and Monitoring Association AEM.

At the conference, Orbital Eye will be presenting about how it has deployed its satellite-based monitoring solution to the Spanish gas pipeline operator Enagás. Besides, Arnaud and Afonso, who represent the OE team, will give more insight into how any type of critical infrastructure can be kept safe through satellite-based monitoring.

So, if you’re attending Congreso AEM 2023, we’d love to meet you there and chat about satellite-based monitoring for critical infrastructure.

Orbital Eye Welcomes Four New Members to the Team and Reveals Exciting Company Traditions

You might have seen quite a few job postings by Orbital Eye in the past months – as we see our customer base growing rapidly, we have also been working hard to grow our team to be able to serve our customers in the best way possible, and to keep optimizing our technology! 🚀

We are happy to announce the start of four new colleagues in the past month: Afonso Duarte joined the commercial team as a business developer and Panagiotis Pomakis joined the operational team as a geospatial data analyst & customer success specialist. We also grew our technical team, with Christophe Cosse starting as a software developer, and Maria Papadomanolaki as a Machine Learning Engineer. Welcome onboard – we are very excited to have all of you on the team! 💐

As is the ‘tradition’ at Orbital Eye, every new employee gets onboarded with a day in the field, in which activities, detected by our satellite-based monitoring solution, are checked and verified! There is no better way to understand exactly what our system is capable of detecting than by seeing the activities in the field – on the pictures you can see Panos and Christophe during their field-trip, and some of the activities that were verified that day. 🏗

Currently, we have another open position for a geospatial data analyst & customer success specialist (dutch-speaking). Do you want to join this fun and fast-growing team as well? Check out the position (https://lnkd.in/gSpqB8XW) and apply!

Orbital Eye Expands: Training in Poland and Monitoring in Spain

Orbital Eye on the road! 🇵🇱🇪🇸

Last week, Orbital Eye was in Poland to give training for the Cosmic-EYE software to a new customer for which we recently started monitoring its pipelines. This week, we visited Nedgia, grupo Naturgy in Barcelona, to discuss the first results of the deployment of CoSMiC-EYE for monitoring part of Nedgia’s pipeline network.

 

Side benefit of Orbital Eye’s growing customer base is that the Orbital Eye team gets to explore new cities and countries all over the world! 🌎