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Data Capture Systems and Techniques for Emergency Management  

The Longford gas-processing facility near Sale in Victoria is responsible for processing gas and other products piped directly from the Bass Strait oil fields. On 25 September, 1998, a failure in a heat exchanger resulted in the release of nearly 15,000 kilograms of flammable gas with the potential explosive power of 300 tonnes of TNT.

Two workers were killed and eight were injured.

1.3 million households in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia had their gas supplies cut for two weeks. 89,000 businesses stood down 150,000 staff with a direct cost to Australian business of $1.2 BILLION.

In this Seminar, Andrew Williams from Rapid Map Global, explains how their company collected and presented the spatial data necessary to fully understand the events leading up to and resulting from the failure of the heat exchanger.

The Workshop based upon the Longford photographic and video database will show how this information can then be presented in a form understandable to non-technical people involved in the subsequent investigations.