Pipeline monitoring

Viasat's IoT Pro and IoT Nano services provide low-cost solutions to support real-time applications, offering a scalable solution for smart metering, SCADA, remote asset monitoring, and environmental data reporting. 

Operating on our ultra-reliable L-band satellite network, which offers up to 99.9% network availability, these solutions enable monitoring and control of critical infrastructure in even the most remote locations. This means businesses can be confident that their infrastructure and operations are running with maximum efficiency at almost all times. 

The challenge

Pipeline monitoring is crucial in the oil and gas industry's cost reduction, safety improvement, and efficiency drive. It ensures smooth product flow amid strict regulatory requirements and the vast distances pipelines traverse. Essential for operational and lone worker safety, it enables quick and accurate responses to damage or leakages.

For pipeline monitoring to have a noticeable impact however, reliable connectivity is vital. As pipelines can run great distances along inhospitable terrain, not only are they often badly served by cellular services, but they are difficult to monitor manually.

Fortunately, energy providers can use satellite connectivity to bridge gaps in pipeline monitoring, gaining valuable operational insights to minimize unexpected downtime and revenue losses. This approach also helps prevent accidents, including explosions or leakages and mitigates potential environmental damage.

Our solution

This solution is comprised of market-leading wireless pipeline monitoring sensors from Viasat’s partners, backhauled by Viasat’s IoT connectivity services - IoT Nano and IoT Pro services on our L-band satellite network. Our network provides military-grade safety and security as well as outstanding reliability. Its robust capabilities operate even in adverse weather conditions, such as heavy rain. It’s also applicable to a range of different pipeline monitoring scenarios.

A typical use would be a pipeline operator working across a large land area, requiring secure data collection and transmission as well as data evaluation and interpretation to optimize the performance of pipeline systems in real time.

Benefits

• Minimize unplanned downtime: Unplanned incidents from equipment failure can cost operations huge sums. Proactive monitoring can help you better manage aging equipment and minimize unplanned downtime.
• Reduce time and cost of pipeline monitoring: Reduce the requirement for a field technician (or teams) to be dispatched to attend incidents and monitor equipment.
• Lower environmental impact: Monitoring and predictively maintaining oil pipelines not only helps mitigate the risk of accidents and protects the environment, but it could also save operators from paying hefty fines for damages caused by such accidents.

Features

• Minimize unplanned downtime: Unplanned incidents from equipment failure can cost operations huge sums. Proactive monitoring can help you better manage aging equipment and minimize unplanned downtime.
• Reduce time and cost of pipeline monitoring: Reduce the requirement for a field technician (or teams) to be dispatched to attend incidents and monitor equipment.
• Lower environmental impact: Monitoring and predictively maintaining oil pipelines not only helps mitigate the risk of accidents and protects the environment, but it could also save operators from paying hefty fines for damages caused by such accidents.