Aberdeen & London: Oilfield Connectivity & Cellular Backhaul on GVF’s Satellite Conference Agenda

by Martin Jarrold, Vice President, International Program Development, GVF

London, UK, May 2, 2019--The satellite industry calendar for May and June 2019 will see two key events from the GVF-EMP Conference Partnership portfolio taken firstly to Aberdeen in Scotland and then to London.

Aberdeen, the principal hub of Europe’s offshore oil industry, will host Oilfield Connectivity 2019: The Next Generation Digital Oilfield on 15th May; and, London’s Docklands area ExCeL Center will host Cellular Backhaul 2019: Satellite and the 5G Journey as a feature of the KNect365 5G World exhibition (in association with Internet of Things World Europe/Tech XLR8 and Smart Transportation & Mobility) on 13th June 2019.

The Partnership has just recently announced the final line-up of speakers for the first of these programs which will examine latest developments in the communications technologies, services and applications that are mission critical for the upstream exploration and production connectivity ecosystem.

Oilfield Connectivity 2019 – which is supported by Comtech EF Data, Hughes, Newtec, iDirect, C-COM Satellite Systems, Integrasys, and Marlink – will comprise a series of presentation and panel discussion sessions featuring speakers from oil companies and academia, together with satellite technology solutions operators and vendors, and service providers. As at 1st May the program for Oilfield Connectivity 2019 is as follows:

0900-0915 — Opening Remarks: Martin Jarrold, Vice President, International Program Development, GVF

0915-0945 — End User Perspective: Video Streaming and Increasing Needs to Have Connectivity for Various Devices in Explosion Rated Areas: Nick Dawson, Drilling IT Program Manager, British Petroleum

0945-1115 — Panel Session 1: Communications Technology Solutions & Building the Digital Oilfield Remote Oilfield Deployment of Robust Auto-Deploy Antenna Technology: Drew Klein, Vice President Sales and Marketing, C-COM Satellite Systems
Maximizing Growth Opportunities via HTS Satellites – GEO and MEO: Simon Gatty Saunt, Vice President Sales EMEA Fixed-Data, SES Networks
The M2M to IoT Journey... Closing the Loop: Robert Irvine, Global Account Manager Energy, SpeedCast
Bandwidth Optimization… Beyond SCPC: Jean-Michel Rouylou, Head of Enterprise Market, Newtec

1145-1315 — Panel Session 2 Communications Service Solutions & Building the Digital Oilfield
Unmanned Deployment Solution Innovations: Sebastien Couvet, EMEA Sales Manager, Integrasys
Hybrid Satellite Network Solutions Taking Cloud Services and Applications Performance to the Next Level: Mark Bennett, Sales Director, Marlink
HTS and the Digital Oilfield:Mike Manson, Sales Manager Oil and Gas, Telenor Satellite AS
Oilfields: Different Communications Service Solutions for Different Needs: Alessandro Caranci, Senior Vice President Satellite Communications, Telespazio

1315-1415  — Lunch

1415-1545 — Panel Session 3 Digital Oilfield Applications: Development & Roll-Out
Big Data Goes Satellite, Principle Attributes Required for Success: Andy Lucas, Senior Vice President Operator Vertical, Comtech EF Data
ViaSat New Maritime Terminals Provide High Throughput to Oilfield Industries: Christian Rigal, Principal System Engineer, ViaSat
Subsea IoT and the Digital Oilfield: Theo Priestley, Chief Marketing Officer, WFS Technologies
Applying Digital Gateways to the Digital Oilfield: Mark Lambert, Vice President Business Development, Kratos
FPAs… The Route to Maturity: Callum Norrie, Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence, Heriot Watt University

1545-1615 — Networking Break

1615-1730 — Panel Session 4: The Strategic Connectivity Ecosystem: The Compliance Environment
The NIS Directive – Detecting Attacks on UK Critical Infrastructure: Martyn Curwen-Bryant, Sales Director, RazorSecure
Compliance with International Data Transfer Requirements for IoT Services: Vadim Doronin, Senior Consultant, Access Partnership
Compliance with Lawful Interception Requirements for IoT Services: Maria Zervaki, Policy Analyst, Access Partnership

1730 — Closing Remarks: Martin Jarrold, Vice President, International Program Development, GVF

The Aberdeen digital oilfield program will be the GVF-EMP Partnership’s 13th annual event dedicated to communications in the upstream oil ecosystem. Whilst this particular user vertical has its own unique demands on the ICT solutions ecosystem, for example, related to big data and connectivity robustness, it is also engaged with broader satellite communications themes such as growth in high throughput satellite capacity, the emergence of low earth orbit constellations, and cyber security, to note only a few.

Embedded within the biggest 5G dedicated event in the world, the Cellular Backhaul 2019 program in London will be dedicated to exploring the current interaction between the satellite and wireless industries, the current and future growth of data traffic from mobile devices and how that will impact both cellular and satellite networks as they increasingly converge and integrate.

At no earlier point in the history of mobile communications is the success of the next generation of networking technologies so dependent upon the take-up of network services by industry vertical markets. This is clearly reflected in the qualitative nature of 5G, a quantum leap beyond the person-to-person communications focus of earlier generations of mobile and towards a device-to-device ecosphere.

With a roundtable-style format, Cellular Backhaul 2019 – which is supported by Comtech EF Data, Hughes, Newtec, iDirect, SES Networks and Gilat Satellite Networks – provides 5G World attendees a series of panels exploring the problems, risks and opportunities that exponential data traffic growth offers to both satellite and wireless industries and to the businesses that will rely on future integrated communications networks.

For further information and details regarding registration for these conferences, please visit www.uk-emp.co.uk/current-events-zone/oilfield-connectivity-2019/ and www.uk-emp.co.uk/current-events-zone/cellular-backhaul-2019/. Alternatively, please contact Paul Stahl at EMP (Century 21 Communications) – paul.stahl@uk-emp.co.uk – or Martin Jarrold at GVF – martin.jarrold@gvf.org

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Martin Jarrold is Vice-President of International Program Development of GVF. He can be reached at: martin.jarrold@gvf.org.