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3. Main directions of application and economic efficiency of GISS

3.7 Monitoring the condition of oil pipelines, oil product pipelines and gas pipelines

This task is one of the most important for the prevention of environmental disasters, oil spills and fires require significant costs to eliminate their consequences.

In particular, such control is important because they are important potential targets for terrorist attacks, especially since fiber-optic communication lines of interregional information and telecommunication transport networks of operators have been laid along them lately.

A huge number of such pipelines pass through the territory of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, and other countries of Europe and the Middle East (see slides in Fig. 3.17 and 3.18). The possibilities of unauthorized tapping into oil and oil product pipelines and their theft in European countries are not developed due to upbringing, in Saudi Arabia due to the chopping off of the head, in the regions of the Caucasus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and a number of Central Asian countries, this is just national fun.

The capabilities of GISS for continuous radar monitoring of the entire territory of the globe and the provision of M2M and IoT services from a variety of unattended sensors and video surveillance systems will make it possible to make a significant contribution in this area of application as well.

By providing FOCL access to the archive of the database of received reflected and probing radar monitoring signals from the regional GRPS, operators of operational centers of oil and gas companies will be able to independently control their pipelines, possible tie-in points, etc.

Here we do not consider technical solutions for the use of various unattended seismic shock, coupled interferometric ground subsidence sensors and other types of sensors and video surveillance. Shown only a large area of applied application of GISS, which will solve the problem of pipeline control much more efficiently than the development and launch of a special satellite with SAR radar “Smotr” for these purposes, provided for in the large target program “Sphere” of Roscosmos. If this is GAZPROM’s contribution to the development of Russian cosmonautics, then it would be more efficient to earn money for its development by providing pipeline monitoring and protection services to this and other oil producing companies with the participation of Roscosmos in the creation of an international GISS.