Emerson Process Management has successfully applied its wireless self-organising mesh field network to monitor wellhead annular pressure and heat exchanger pressures on the Grane offshore platform. The Grane platform is operated by StatoilHydro and is stationed in the Norwegian Sea off the coast of Bergen, Norway.

Emerson’s self-organising wireless mesh technology is ideally suited to the application of wireless technology, enabling remote monitoring and control of the process in difficult to reach areas. Emerson believes that the network on the Grane platform is the first offshore wireless installation in Europe.

“We had some concerns that this new technology would work reliably in the harsh environment of our offshore platform”, said Geir Leon Vadheim, Instrument Lead, Grane Operations, StatoilHydro. “We also needed to address the issue of how we would integrate the data gathered by the wireless gateway into a third party system. As it turns out, the integration was easy and the performance of the Smart Wireless transmitters has exceeded our expectations.”

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