GVF Announce New Conference Details

London, UK, July 30, 2013--The GVF-EMP Conference Partnership have announced details of the next programs in their Oil & Gas Communications Conference Series and High Throughput Satellite Roundtable Series, programs which reflect some latest developments in oil and gas industry communications requirements, and in the technological and service delivery capabilities of the world’s leading satellite operators and networking solutions providers.

The 6th Annual Oil & Gas Communications South East Asia: Evolving the ‘Big Data’ Digital Oilfield for Offshore & Deep Water conference, the 19th event in GVF-EMP’s overall global series, will take place on 19th & 20th November 2013 at the InterContinental Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Martin Jarrold, GVF’s Chief of International Programme Development, and conference chairman, commented, “Included in this regional conference programme for the first time will be dialogues on Big Data – the specialism which focuses on solutions and services to store, manage, protect and analyse information extracted from the large volumes of data generated by the oil industry – and the implications for oil & gas E&P of the interface of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and satellite connectivity.”

Added Paul Stahl, Managing Partner of EMP, “The region's countries exhibit strong continuing interest in meeting as much domestic oil & gas demand as possible from home sources in order to slow import dependency, boost energy security, and maximise the potential for accelerated growth. Asia’s offshore energy industry has significant potential to deliver on the need for assured domestically-sourced oil & gas supplies on the basis of both continuing production from already operating fields and from the accelerated exploitation of the newly discovered reserves which will bring the Big Data.”

The Kuala Lumpur conference is endorsed by the Asia Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC) as Supporting Regional Trade Association.

The needs of Big Data in oil and gas are increasingly likely be met by high throughput satellite (HTS) systems, the focus of a GVF-EMP event in the following month, in Europe.

High Throughput Satellites 2013: The Game-Changer in Action – The London Roundtable will take place at the Strand Palace Hotel on 5th & 6th December 2013, delivering the third programme in this GVF-EMP conference series. The Roundtable Series continues to offer a highly topical and timely platform for discussion, just as more satellite operators are bringing HTS capabilities to orbit and to the market.

“Globally, there are massive growth opportunities for consumer and enterprise satellite broadband solutions," said David Hartshorn, Secretary General of GVF.

“During High Throughput Satellites 2013, front-line experts will share insights into the new applications being delivered, the new market sectors being served, and the business models that are changing the way that satellite communications are provided today.”

Martin Jarrold, who will co-chair The London Roundtable, added, “Such discussion will be premised on dialogue which will have already set-out the importance of understanding what exactly characterises HTS in terms of – throughput; efficiency; spectrum; coverage; and, architecture.” He continued, “The programme will explore the new engineering challenges arising from the new HTS communications technologies and solutions, including new development opportunities in both space segment and a range of ground segment environments. From the orbital perspective, the programme will examine the current and future engineering of high throughput payloads in terms of maximising the potential of multiple spot-beam and frequency reuse architectures. From the ground segment perspective this session will look at infrastructure evolution, and the planning, design, deployment & managing of HTS terminals/earth stations, including antenna technology product quality and installation, HTS-enabled terminals and user expectations, understanding rain fade issues, and device portability.”

Additionally announced by GVF-EMP is Connectivity 2014: Air, Water, Surface & Rail, which will also take place in London, in February 2014 (exact dates to be announced). This event will look at being connected to the Internet, whenever you want, wherever you are, wherever you’re going to, and however you’re getting there, with fast broadband data speeds.

Paul Stahl of EMP noted, “In the metropolitan workplace and in the urban or suburban home, the multiple-tens of Mbps service has become commonplace with the deployment of fixed fibre-based infrastructures by telecoms service providers. But, increasingly, for an ever-growing proportion of an ever-more demanding user base, this is not enough, particularly as the user-to-device/terminal relationship continues its migration away from interfacing with desktop/laptop PCs with local hard drive data storage and towards interfacing with tablets and smartphones with increasing volumes of data storage in the Cloud.”

Martin Jarrold added, “This is a migration which places an overwhelming emphasis on the opportunity for Internet connectivity and access to multimedia services which meet the seemingly insatiable demand for increasingly video-based enterprise and social media applications, whilst the user is entirely mobile, whether pounding the urban street, taking a country stroll, riding a train, flying on a plane, or taking a trip across the sea. Connectivity 2014 is the platform to discuss this environment, and the platform to facilitate understanding of the central role of satellite in broadband mobility.”

The conference websites:

Oil & Gas Communications South East Asia: Evolving the ‘Big Data’ Digital Oilfield for Offshore & Deep Water

www.uk-emp.co.uk/emp-home/current-events/oil-gas-comms-se-asia-2013/

High Throughput Satellites 2013: The Game-Changer in Action – The London Roundtable

www.uk-emp.co.uk/emp-home/current-events/hts-roundtable-london/

Connectivity 2014: Air, Water, Surface & Rail

www.uk-emp.co.uk/emp-home/current-events/connectivity-intro-ms/

For more information please contact the Series organisers.  Their contact details are, with GVF, Martin Jarrold at martin.jarrold@gvf.org, and with EMP, Paul Stahl at paul.stahl@uk-emp.co.uk.