Grant Pusey is a PhD student with CMST, studying the use of acoustic technology for subsea pipeline data transmission.

EMAIL: G.Pusey
Telephone: +61 8 9266 7225

CAPABILITY STATEMENT

NAME: Grant Pusey
ENROLLED DEGREE: PhD

QUALIFICATIONS:

2005 - BSc (Physics) (Curtin)
2006 - BSc (Physics) (Honours) with First Class Honours (Curtin)

RESEARCH BACKGROUND/INTERESTS:

Underwater Acoustics
Electronic and Computer Engineering (Data Aquisition)

SUPERVISORS:

Dr Alec Duncan
Dr Alexander Gavrilov
Dr Matthew Dunbabin

RESEARCH PROJECT:

Real-time sensor measurement retrieval using acoustic modems along subsea pipelines.

Offshore pipelines are an integral component to the oil and gas industry, vital for the transport of resources from subsea wells. To minimise the financial and environmental impact of a pipeline failure, this program seeks to develop a real-time method of retrieving information from external sensors along a subsea pipeline. This will involve experimental deployment of various underwater modems and monitoring their capabilities in dynamic ocean environments. Additionally, theoretical modelling of acoustic propagation through the water column will be performed using various computational techniques. After determining the feasibility of horizontal acoustical data transmission, a prototype network is expected to be implemented, transmitting sensor data over several hops to a ground-based station.