Visinum

Visinum is a data management and analytics platform designed for unstructured engineering data, like video, images, sonar, lidar etc.

Engineering Data

Qwilka is a start-up company that is developing data management and anaytics software for unstructured engineering data. Our data platform is called Visinum.

Data Technologies

Qwilka offers cloud-base software offering the following services

Data management

Visinum is Qwilka’s data management platform.

Analytics

Visinum analytics extract value from data.

GIS

Visinum-GIS is is Qwilka’s geograhpical information system.

Pipeline

Visinum automates pipeline design.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Sustainability: The Subsea Industry and the Evolution of Energy

I presented a talk entitled Digital Decommissioning of Pipelines at the joint SUT-IMCA-THSIS joint seminar Sustainability: The Subsea …

PyCon Limerick 2020

I presented a talk at Python Conference Limerick 2020 entitled «Trees for structure and support in Python». Abstract Tree data …

The Future Subsea Digital Toolbox

I presented a talk entitled Beyond visualisations: realising the full value of subsea data at the joint SUT-IMCA-THSIS event The Future …

Python Conference Ireland 2019

I presented a talk on my Python module pflacs at the 2019 Python Ireland conference in Dublin, on the 12th of October. The title of the …

Recent Posts

Learn to program with Python

NOTE: this is a work-in-progress This article aims to help those, who want to learn how to program, to get started without being …

Finding the fish in GIS

I recently came across this video in a Linkedin post. It’s a clip of ROV video that shows a small strange sea creature apparently …

Introducing the Qwilka Subsea GIS

I have just set up a demonstration GIS (geographic information system) for my subsea data company Qwilka. It is built using the open …

Introducing Qwilka

By way of introducing Qwilka, the startup company I founded to develop new ways of managing engineering data and get more value from …
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Stephen McEntee

Subsea Engineer

Qwilka

Biography

I am a subsea engineer with 20 years’ experience working in the oil & gas industry in Aberdeen and Norway. I have worked for MCS, JP Kenny, Wood, and BP, among others. My experience includes pipeline and riser design, working offshore as a project engineer on subsea installation and intervention projects, and 6 years as pipeline engineer on the BP Skarv Development Project in Norway. I am a chartered mechanical engineer, and I received a PhD from NUI Galway in 1997 for research on finite element analysis of composite materials.

Following from my work on Skarv, I have developed a major interest and a high degree of expertise in subsea data. I have worked with large quantities of ROV video and multi-beam sonar data from pipeline surveys, and other types of data such as pipe vibrations data, and temperature and pressure process data. It’s not easy visualizing and analysing large quantities of unstructured data, but I think it’s worth the effort because all the things you can learn about how infrastructure actually behaves in the field. I often see things in the data that you wouldn’t expect from engineering theory. Because I believe that other engineers would benefit from working closer with their data, I have founded a company called Qwilka that will help engineers manage, visualize, analyse and ultimately extract value from their data.

Interests

  • Subsea engineering
  • Pipeline engineering
  • Composites
  • Data management
  • Computer programming

Education

  • PhD in mechanical engineering, 1997

    National University of Ireland Galway

  • MEngSc in mechanical engineering, 1993

    University College Dublin

  • BE in mechanical engineering, 1990

    University College Dublin