QINSy Technical Support for PT Geomahakarsa Indonesia

From left: Irin, Misrin, Yaya, Safar, Ihwan, Edy, Nikolay, Nick Kasli and Antony.

KUALA LUMPUR: Safaruddin of SAFA Geoscience Malaysia completed an on-job training of QINSy and QLOUD for PT GeoMahakarsa Indonesia onboard their vessel of opportunity, MV VOYAGER. Three surveyors (cum data processors) were trained and supervised to operate QINSy and QLOUD. The mission was to survey an area of 16km by 4km with 90m water depth, existing platforms, live pipelines and a number of subsea wellheads.

MV Voyager

MV Voyager was mobilized in Singapore on 1st May 2008 with QINSy (and QLOUD), C-Nav GcGPS, RESON Seabat 8101 Multibeam Echosounder, DMS2-05 motion sensor, Applied Acoustic Sparker, GeoAcoustic Geopulse 4×4 pinger, Edgetech 4200-FS SideScan Sonar system, Seaspy Magnetometer, CODA DA2000, Sonardyne Ranger-Pro USBL System, Meridien Gyro Compass and Valeport MIDAS Sound Velocity Profiler.

This job was lead by Dr Nikolay Nenov, a well known geophysicist. The rest of the survey team were, surveyors Antony, Ihwan and Ariff; survey engineers Edy and Yaya; geophysicists Misrin and Irin (the lady graduated in geology studies) and last but not least the ICT specialist Nick Kasli, whom without the survey networking and regular data backing-up will be left unattended.

QINSy was NOT ONLY utilized to acquire all positioning, multibeam echosounding data and magnetometer data BUT ALSO was configured to output serial data to CODA DA2000. After sound refraction and tide correction being applied to the acquired multibeam data, QINSy was used to validate the data quality. Data outside the specified quality criteria will be disabled from further processing, especially during QLOUD cleaning process.

QINSy & QLOUD Training at Offshore Geo-Surveys Malaysia

Back row (left to right): Safaruddin, Fadhllan, Shahril, Farhan, Khaibar & Megat.
Front row (left to right): Aznizam, Nusser, Amirudin, Fairuz, AlYufizli & Ema.

SAFA GEOSCIENCE once again organized the training, attended by newly employed graduate surveyors from Offshore Geo-Surveys Sdn Bhd, Kuala Lumpur. It was a 4-day training program, from 19th June 2008 until 22nd June 2008, held at the Ridley Resource Conference Room situated within the office complex of the Malaysian Rubber Board, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur (opposite the PETRONAS Twin Tower).

The training covered basic application of QINSy and QLOUD. The objective was to familiarize them with the general functions available within QINSy and QLOUD; preparation, setting-up, interfacing, online operation, replay, data reduction, analyze, cleaning, import and export, just to name a few. The training was facilitated by Safaruddin and was assisted by Ema Zuhairin (lady surveyor/data processor of KERTAU RESOURCES) and Aznizam (undergraduate trainee surveyor of KERTAU RESOURCES).

Coincidently, 21st June was the WORLD HYDROGRAPHIC DAY, fell on the 3rd day of the training. We celebrated the day by wearing a t-shirt printed with the famous logo of IHO of Monaco as seen in the picture above.

Successful ! MultiBeam Survey with QINSY + QLOUD Operations Workshop

21-23 February 2008, THE MINES Resort City, Kuala Lumpur : 19 participants have completed a 3-day QINSy+QLOUD+Multibeam Operations Workshop in Kuala Lumpur from 21st until 23rd February 2008 organised by SAFA GEOSCIENCE and QPS BV. It was in conjunction with ATOSSE2008, from 18th until 20th February 2008. The workshop was held at The Palace Beach and Spa Hotel. Participants were from various background, organisations and countries.

The Trainers and the Participants

QINSy trainer, FRANS NIJSEN, was assigned by QPS BV to conduct the workshop, and assisted by EDDY JUNAIDY of SAFA GEOSCIENCE Malaysia.

Each of the participants was given a notebook installed with QINSy and QLOUD software provided by QPS.

The first day they were taught the importance of correct set-up and configuration within QINSy that will be used to acquire the multibeam survey data. The concept of "Do it right the first time" was emphasized.

The second day was the day they were divided into three groups. Each group was given the opportunity to experience the multibeam survey operations on a 'survey boat' mobilised with QINSy, Kongsberg EM3002, Meridian Gyrocompass, TSS motion sensor and Veripos DGPS. This system was sponsored by MAJU GEOHYDRO Malaysia. The 'survey boat' was provided by The MINES CRUISE MANAGEMENT. With the setup, seven participants can board at one time.

During this second day, the workshop managed to survey the whole North lake and confirmed the deepest point of the lake is about 95m (312 feet). Multibeam calibration (patch test) and QLOUD were taught on the last day in the classroom. They experience the calibration process using some examples provided and cleaning the multibeam data using QLOUD.

The 'survey boat' mobilised with EM3002 transducer mounted over the bow.

Frans give away the certificate to Mr Cuong of SEAMAP Vietnam

Certificate for Mr Mohd Affandi of Malaysian Maritime and Dredging Corporation

QINSy Training for UiTM Staffs

Ten academic staffs (five Assoc. Professors and five survey technicians) from University Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Malaysia and two academic staffs from National Institute of Land and Survey (INSTUN) attended this 4-day familiarisation training in Port Dickson from 26 July until 29 July 2008. UiTM just purchased new sets of hydrographic survey system from local equipment supplier appointed by the university. Two licenses of QINSy Survey was supplied by SAFA Geoscience Malaysia that inclusive of a 4-day QINSy familiarisation program, interfacing the rest of the equipment (PDL Radio telemetry, Valeport 740 tide gauge, Odom Echotrac SBES, Trimble DSM, KVH Digital Compass) into QINSy with no difficulty.We managed to have the system tested on a small wooden boat locally hired in Port Dickson and performed small survey nearby an existing SBM owned by Shell Refinery Port Dickson.

At the end of the training program, each of the participants was be able to appreciate and understand the basic application of bathymetric surveying using QINSy. Further training session was requested for some advance applications such as offshore construction and laying, multibeam surveying and vessel tracking using QINSy software (and QLOUD too as they will purchase QLOUD in the near future together with their newly acquired multibeam system).

SAFA GEOSCIENCE at ISM Congress 2008

June 26-27, 2008: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

SAFA GEOSCIENCE, the authorized dealer of QINSy softwares participated in the exhibition at the 10th International Surveyors' Congress 2008, organized by the Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia (ISM). The venue took place in Istana Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.Out of 19 booths at the exhibition, only SAFA GEOSCIENCE's booth exhibiting hydrographic solution from QINSy of QPS BV.

The congress was officially opened and addressed the keynote by The Minister of Malaysian Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, Dato' Shahrir Abdul Samad. Special appearance and experience sharing by the Malaysian First Cosmonaut, Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, travelled in the Soyuz TMA-11 to the Internaional Space Station (ISS) 10-21 October 2007.

Visitors from various surveying background were anxious to know more about QINSy softwares for their coastal water hydrographic survey related purposes. Some of them intend to replace their current hydrographic survey software with QINSy as their software cannot support multibeam survey and efficient data cleaning tools.

1st day, in front of the booth, with enthusiast junior QINSy surveyors (from left: Alyufizli, Nusser and Aznizam)

With The Minister of Malaysian Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, Dato' Shahrir Abdul Samad, giving brief description about QINSy software.

With Ms Katherine Thiang, the CEO of the Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia (ISM)

With Malaysian authorized land surveyors

QINSy & GEOMETRA Singapore

Geometra Surveyors Funafuti

19th September 2008. Geometra International Pte Ltd Singapore (GEOMETRA) purchased another license of QINSy Survey for their in-coming offshore pipelay project in India. The previous licenses were for their dedicated multibeam and hydrographic site investigation shallow draft survey boat named ' Geometra Surveyors'.

The survey boat is equipped with RESON Seabat 8101 multibeam system, typical dual-freq singlebeam echosounder, DGPS and QINSy Survey with Multibeam Support Add-On module as their navigation and data acquisition software. Back in their office, the multibeam data acquired is processed using QINSy Office with Multibeam Support Add-On module and Qloud for the 3D area based data cleaning.

From left: Onboard 'MYNX' Harjinder Singh (winch operator), HC Chia (Surveyor), MM Sharma (Survey Party Chief) & Safaruddin (SAFA Geoscience Malaysia)

Earlier in October 2007, QINSy was used for their positioning contract providing positioning services to LEIGHTON MARINE INDIA installing PLEM and SPM, offshore Sikka, Gulf of Kutch, Gujarat, India, from their 8-points mooring anchor barge 'LEIGHTON MYNX'.

Many sensors were interfaced into QINSy as required by the contract such as four support vessels tracking, USBL, underwater gyro, pitch & roll sensor, realtime tide gauge telemetry, currentmeter as well as the usual DGPS and surface survey gyro.

SAFA GEOSCIENCE Malaysia have been supporting GEOMETRA's operations by providing after sales QINSy technical support and training to their surveyors, not only the classroom training but also on-the-job training onboard their survey boat 'Geometra Surveyors' and their offshore construction survey project.

Surveyor in Action

LEIGHTON MYNX

eBINA Pipelay Project in India

From left: Onboard "Stealth" Mr. Savai (Winch Operator), Mr. Ravi (Radio Operator), Mr. Zulkarnain (Surveyor), Nigel (Survey Party Chief) & Mr. Ridzuan (Surveyor/Survey Engineer)

In November 2008, LEIGHTON MARINE INDIA used QINSy as their positioning system to install a 48" Offshore pipeline using their 9-points mooring anchor barge 'LEIGHTON STEALTH' . LEIGHTON was contracted by BINA refinery project at Singath Salt Jetty, Gulf of Kutch, Gujarat, India. As required by the contract, many sensors have been interfaced into QINSy such as surface survey gyro, real-time tide gauge telemetry, current meter, DGPS system and echosounder.

From Left: Surveyor in action | Position fixes using RTK GPS | Survey Engineer mount GPS antenna on the top of tug boat

From Left: BMS onboard LEIGHTON STEALTH | TMS onboard the anchor handler

STEALTH during Beach-pull Operation

2010 UserDay Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur

From left: Rob van Woudenberg (QPS BV), Frans Nijsen(QPS BV), & Lenny Sharinee Sakai (SAFA Geoscience)

September 2010 – UserDay was held in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur for the gathering of QINSy User, Client, Freelancer and Consultant to bring the latest news and achievements.

Malaysia QINSy Trainers to QPS, The Netherlands

March 2011 – Trainers from SAFA Geoscience went to QINSy, QPS Headquarters in Zeist, the Netherlands for Training and visiting Trip. This annual activities held to maintain and produce the quality of the Malaysia QINSy Training up to standard.

SAFA Geoscience provide support team and license dongle for Multibeam course held by University Technology Malaysia early 2011

Recently SAFA Geoscince supporting the Malaysian Navy in the Installation and patch test of R2Sonic 2024 Mutibeam.

QINSy User Day Kuala Lumpur 2011

QINSy User Day Kuala Lumpur 2011 was held on 31st October 2011 held at Conference Hall LGM, Level 1, Kuala Lumpur. Attended by QINSy users from Marine Department, NAHRIM, Mineral and Geoscience Department, PHN, UiTM, Malaysia Maritime Agency Enforcement, PETRONAS Carigali, Petroseis, ESRI Malaysia, Marine Science Technology, Orogenic GeoExpro, MGH, JUPEM, License Land Surveyor and others. Shared the Latest news and info from QINSy presented by QPS. The User day started with the Introduction by Lenny form SAFA Geoscience and clip show of the highlight activities of the company throughout the year. Continued with QINSy and QPS Background and latest news of QINSy presentation by Rob van Woudenberg. Frans Nijsen then continued with QPM latest development. Later after Lunch, Session of Fledermaus took place presented by Frans Nijsen. He shared the introduction and demonstration of Fledermaus. Rob also informed the participants SAFA Geoscience is the authorized reseller for QINSy and Fledermaus. The User Day ended with Q & A Session and on the 3rd November followed by QINSy User Day Jakarta.Conducted by Hydronav Jakarta, we have a great QINSy User day. As conclusion, we have a good year this tme and wish all the best for all the QINSy user.

QINSy User Day Jakarta 2011 - 3rd November 2011