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Planet Partners with SynMax to Provide Energy Intelligence and Monitor Dark Vessels by Staff Writers San Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2022
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, has partnered with SynMax, a Houston-based satellite analytics and intelligence company, to provide data-informed insights on the energy industry within the United States and monitor the movements of dark vessels around the globe. With Planet's daily PlanetScope imagery, SynMax monitors the location of hundreds of well pads for hydraulic fracturing and the ongoing activity at the sites by frac crews that maintain the operations and safety of the wells. These frac crews are responsible for the final steps in the development of oil and gas wells, and with Planet's data, the status of the sites can be monitored in near real-time. By gaining intelligence on these operations, SynMax is able to inform energy-focused hedge funds, looking to accurately forecast the near-term supply of oil and gas. After meeting Planet's CEO and co-founder Will Marshall at his 2014 TED talk, Bill Perkins, founder of SynMax and owner of energy hedge fund Skylar Capital, came up with the idea of monitoring frac crew activity on a daily basis with Planet's imagery. Planet's approximately 200 satellites provide a line scanner of the Earth, imaging every terrestrial location every day. This unprecedented amount of data provides Planet's customers with situational awareness and real-time insights about daily changes on the Earth. "The problem of accurate near-term oil and gas supply forecasting has been a persistent issue for energy hedge funds, and I was immediately interested in how Planet's satellite data could be used to reliably monitor frac crew activity," states Perkins. "Supply is so critical to price that once this [frac crew] data becomes available to the market, we believe that hedge funds will be unable to trade without it." Perkins tasked then Quantitative Analyst, Eric Anderson, now SynMax CTO, with developing a model that incorporated Planet's daily PlanetScope data into an analysis of frac crew activity. "We [Skylar Capital] have thoroughly explored the offerings of frac crew monitoring services from other companies and have been consistently frustrated at the poor quality of their data which relies on inconsistent and infrequent low resolution free satellite images," recalled Anderson. Anderson and his team found that Planet data allowed them to track operating frac crews in near real-time. Using their proprietary artificial intelligence combined with Planet's satellite data, SynMax will provide maritime solutions for IUU fishing, illicit ship-to-ship transfers, and vessel spoofing. SynMax is now developing a first-of-its-kind dark vessel tracking product, entitled Project Theia. This project is targeting the commercial market and may make it possible for vessel operators, maritime insurance companies, and hedge funds interested in clandestine commodity flows, to discover, monitor, and investigate dark vessels operating all over the globe. "SynMax has found that it can discover in-mass maritime vessels all over the world that are not transponding their locations using, in part, Planet's daily imagery," said SynMax CEO Brendan Moore, a former UK intelligence officer. Together, these two companies could deliver unmatched data-informed intelligence for hedge funds invested in the energy industry and companies relying on transparent maritime commodity flows. Planet's daily coverage of the globe could empower the financial industry to make better data-informed decisions, in part through innovative companies like SynMax.
BlackSky supports customers during Ukraine crisis Herndon VA (SPX) Apr 19, 2022 BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) has demonstrated the ability to rapidly shift orbits, launch two new satellites, and collect images over Ukraine all within a 45-day window. In addition to generating a strategic increase in constellation capacity, customers received dawn-to-dusk analytics and imagery products of Ukraine within 24 hours of the company's most recent launch on April 2. "We're setting a new standard in the new space industry for speed, resilience, and agility," said Brian E. O'Toole, BlackSky CE ... read more
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