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- The new requirements of oil research entail the use of techniques that are in harmony with its needs.

- In particular when sea researches are concerned.

- It is to that some realisations by COMEX equipment meet the expectations.

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- Here is a buoy with frequency transmission that is towed at some kilometers from Marseilles, close to the small island Grand Congloé.

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- The structure of the piece of equipment is made to resist the assaults from the sea.

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- These types of buoys have two main characteristics:

- they have an automatic functioning and they can be, moreover, interrogated from the earth.

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- Once this anchored structure has been positioned in front of the small island Grand Congloé, then the ballasting operation.

- to which we will attend.

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- This realisation by COMEX equipment is presented by the head manager of this society, Mr. Quémandon.

- Mr. Quémandon, the buoy is now anchored a few kilometers from Marseilles, it is here as a trial and it will then be taken to the Adriatic Sea.

- That’s true.

- It is part of a system we call TELEME 150, composed of 4 buoys with a system of asking and automatic start up that will be in Milan,

- the buoys being in the Adriatic Sea, the system of asking in Milan and the automatic start up in Ravenne.

- At the present time, we are during a test of propagation and good functioning of the piece of equipment.

- This test will last for 15 days.

- It is a weather and oceanographic buoy that transmits over a range of 250 kilometers weather parameters, such as wind speed and wind direction and oceanographic parameters as swell through a mere query.

- The coming customers are the Italians, for oil research.

- That’s true.

- The Italians thought that it was good for them to own an entire system that would allow data transmission which prevail in a zone where there are numerous drillings

- and where there may also be a large amount of oil production.

- That is a world premiere, I think, as in this sector there is no equivalent system, at least in Europe.

- There is the soviet system but it is alike ours.

- Yes, exactly.

- The soviet system has, let’s say, an orientation that is a little more scientific, that is to say it measures many more parameters than our system.

- Our system has engineering applications.

- We measure parameters that are very useful to work in the sea.

- Much more than for scientific interpretations.

- Besides, what I don’t mean by that this buoy could not be used for scientific uses.

- This latter also owns military applications.

- Military applications, very certainly so.

- Any kind of constant measuring of weather parameters in the sea is always useful for military applications to try to understand a little the interaction of the sea with the atmosphere.

- So several possible applications and for the time being the test are conclusive.

- Here, the telemaster the center for reception and interrogation.

- Technique and automation are, as a fact, fundamental elements of offshore oil research and long-lasting exploitation.

- Other buoys of that kind will shortly enter the Northern Sea through COMEX equipment.