Oil and gas
Proactively manage lightning and thunderstorm risks for your installations and operations.
Your requirements
Lightning is a major threat to the oil and gas industry, with the potential to severely damage oil and gas pipelines, storage infrastructures, refineries and their protection systems.
The flammable materials in your installations considerably increase the likelihood of fire or explosion in the event of lightning.
Operational safety is therefore essential. Adopting a proactive approach will enable you to minimize these risks.
You need reliable information and decision-making aid tools in order to:
- design and correctly size lightning protection systems for your installations,
- ensure the safety of your teams working outdoors, in particular by interrupting the operations most at risk during the passage of a storm,
- maximize production at your sites by limiting disruptions and shutdowns,
- inspect your equipment likely to have been damaged by lightning before it becomes worse.
Discover how we support the oil and gas industry:
All our solutions tailored to your requirements
Evaluate your exposure to thunderstorms and lightning
Analyze your risks and adapt your means of prevention and protection.
Be alerted to the arrival and end of a thunderstorm
Safeguard people and infrastructures, adapt your operations.
Monitor live thunderstorms and lightning
Optimize your preventive measures and mitigate risks as early as possible.
Check any damage and your installations after a thunderstorm
Determine whether lightning has caused damage and optimize your inspection process.
Integrate lightning information
Feed your own tools with our high-resolution flows and data, in real time or past time.
Training
Develop your skills or your employees’ skills in lightning risk management.
Develop your own lightning service capability
Take advantage of CATS and provide your users with services tailored to their requirements.
What our customers say
We benefit from Lightning Alarm with Visualisation, which sends notifications to our supervision centre, enabling us to avoid starting loading operations that could be interrupted in a hurry in the event of bad weather. This solution makes our planning more secure.
If there is a thunderstorm nearby, we suspend certain loading operations in accordance with our safety procedures. This decision, based on objective data, is more readily accepted by our customers, teams and all those involved.
Our team managers work in a calmer environment, because they are no longer faced with dilemmas when storms threaten. This considerably improves working conditions.
After a thunderstorm, we can carry out checks on our lightning protection systems more quickly and efficiently using the Lightning Remote Counter.
TransTank GmbH
Oil depots, Germany
When thunderstorm activity is detected within a 10-km radius, we are warned to stop our activities and evacuate the people on our site to safety in buildings with protection against lightning. Once the episode is over, we are informed once again and we can resume our activities. On the internet, I can also accurately follow the thunderstorm’s progress and see how many lightning strikes have hit the depot, so that the necessary measures can be taken, including checking our lightning protection systems.
[…]. This also enables us tocomply with regulations, which require us to detect lightning and count the number of strikes.
METEORAGE makes this task easier, helping us to make the right choices.
TotalEnergies
Feluy oil depot, Belgium
METEORAGE’s lightning data forms an integral part of a site’s lightning-risk analysis, and is particularly useful when carrying out complex studies.
We not only integrate local lightning density, but also analyze the distribution of electrical discharge current, to determine whether the site is more severely struck by lightning than stipulated by the standard, or to take into account the seasonality of thunderstorms. Thirty years ago, the only data available was the number of days a human observer could hear thunder.
Today, thanks to METEORAGE, we can obtain detailed data on lightning strikes at a site, and learn more about the spatial representation and violence of the phenomenon, which we believe is crucial for protecting a site from lightning.
SEFTIM
Design office specializing in lightning-risk analysis for sensitive sites
Key benefits for our users
Risk management for high-value installations
Lightning data secure critical assets and ensure operational safety.
Real-time monitoring
Instant information supports preventive actions on sensitive infrastructure.
No installation required
Access our services directly via a browser on your computer or mobile device. Our Client Portal provides online services and archives without the need for additional equipment or software.
Compliance with international standards IEC 62793, IEC 62858 and IEC 62305-1/2/3/4
We adhere to international standards to ensure the reliability and accuracy of our lightning data.
High-resolution data from the best detection technologies
We provide detailed and precise data to optimize the safety and continuity of your electrical networks.
Dedicated 24/7 technical support
Our technical team monitors your services continuously, ensuring optimal operation at all times.
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