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Woodside Energy employs groundbreaking safety system on drill ship

This case study first appeared on the Woodside Energy website in 2025.Read the full article here.

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HaloGuard®, an innovative optical / AI machine learning Red Zone monitoring system which protects offshore drilling crews from moving equipment has been installed on a Transocean drill ship contracted to Woodside in what is believed to be an Australian first.

3 key takeaways:

  • Advanced safety technology: HaloGuard combines optical AI machine vision technology and wearable sensors to track crew and equipment in real-time, automatically stopping equipment in the event of ‘line of fire’ detections before escalations occur
     
  • First deployment in-country: The system has been installed on Transocean Endurance for Woodside, marking the first known use of Red Zone monitoring technology in Australia
     
  • Growing global adoptions: HaloGuard is now adopted on 29 rigs world-wide and is becoming a new standard for drill floor safety

Learn more about Salunda’s unrivalled Red Zone monitoring solutions here.

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Optical / AI

  • Optical ranging & machine vision
  • High definition and time of flight cameras in single Orb
  • Exact crew location measurement
  • Unaffected by situational factors
  • Fewer units than 2D only systems