Next Event in Conference Series for Europe, ‘North & Northwest – The North Sea, The Arctic Ocean & The Atlantic Margin’

Aberdeen, Scotland, April 22, 2013--The 18th event in the Oil & Gas Communications Series, and the 6th for the European hydrocarbons industry communications environment, Oil & Gas Communications Europe 2013: North & Northwest – The North Sea, The Arctic Ocean & The Atlantic Margin, will take place at the Marriott Hotel, Dyce, Aberdeen on 14th & 15th May 2013.

Sponsored by Intelsat, Telenor Satellite Broadcasting, Eutelsat Communications, Comtech EF Data, and Ceragon, the programme offers free-of-charge attendance for representatives of oil & gas industry communications solution end-users, i.e., specialists in IT/IS/ICT/Telecoms, Connectivity & Networks/Procurement/SLAs from Oil/Gasfield Operators, Drillers, Shipping & Transportation, Support Vessels, Rig Owners/Operators.

As the GVF-EMP Conference Partnership builds towards this next event in the Oil & Gas Communications Conference Series, the Partnership is delighted to announce that the Series conference just concluded in Rio de Janeiro has been lauded as the best event in the GVF-EMP Conference Series devoted to the oil & gas communications imperatives of the rapidly growing Brazilian hydrocarbons extraction sector.

The Aberdeen event in May will feature themes that are of key significance for the European oil & gas communications markets, such as:

  • Trending Now! Global Broadband Satcoms & Europe’s Oil & Gas Patch Future Evolution;
  • The Global & Regional Satellite Operator View from Earth Orbit: Satellite Capacity Supply, Service Models, Solutions Delivery, and Oil & Gas Patch Capacity Demand;
  • Satellite Communications at the Cutting-Edge: Leveraging the High-Capacity/High-Throughput/Ka-band Advantage in E&P;
  • Oil, Gas & Communications Spectrum: Interference Challenges & Challenging Interference;
  • Network Performance Optimisation: The Technical Analytics Understood;
  • Cloud-over-Satellite for E&P Networking: Risk Assessment & Data Security;
  • Network Hierarchy Flexibility in Oil & Gas;
  • Terrestrial Communications Technology Environments: Stabilised Microwave Wireless;
  • Telemetry, Monitoring & Asset Tracking: M2M Terminal Application Dynamics for Oil & Gas;
  • MegaBits per Second and Dollars per Day: Defining the Most Cost-Effective Communications Solutions for Oil & Gas;
  • Licensing & Regulation in Europe’s Mature & Emerging Oil & Gas Space.

Participating organisations for the 2013 European conference include: Intelsat; Telenor Satellite Broadcasting; Eutelsat Communications; Comtech EF Data; Cobham SATCOM; SES; Gilat Satellite Networks; Harris CapRock; Orange Business Services, Hermes Datacomms; Romantis; SkyWave Ceragon; RigNet; ConocoPhillips; Diamond Offshore Drilling; Talisman; Sinopec; BP; Technip; Subsea 7; Northern Sky Research; and Access Partnership, with others confirming their contributions daily.

 

The Oil & Gas Communications Conference Series conferences for Europe regularly feature the participation of the following organisations, in alphabetical order:

 

4MS; Access Partnership; AGR Petroleum; Amor Group; Amos Satellite System (Spacecom); Arqiva; Avanti Communications; Baker Hughes; BP North Sea Upstream; Canadian Natural Resources (CNR); C-Comm Satellite Systems; Centrica Energy; Centrica Energy Upstream; Cisco Systems; Comtech EF Data; Eutelsat; Gilat Satellite Networks; Harris CapRock; Hermes Datacomms; Inmarsat; Intelsat; Internet for Business; iSat; JMBroadcast; M&J Communications; NESSCO; Nexen Inc; NSR; Prosafe; Remote Communication Services; RigNet; Riverbed Technology; Satmesh; Sematron UK Ltd; SES; Shell; Shell IT; Spectra Group; SpeedCast; Stena Drilling; Subsea 7; Talisman Energy; Telenor; Telesat; Total; Tullow Oil; University of Aberdeen; VeVoe; YR20; and others.

 

Latest updates on the Aberdeen programme, and other details of the conference can be found at the event website at www.uk-emp.co.uk/emp-home/future-events/oil-gas-communications-europe-2013/.

 

The Rio de Janeiro conference, which took place on 16th & 17th April, and was the 3rd for the LatAm region in the overall Series of 17 Oil & Gas Communications events held globally since 2006, was sponsored by Intelsat, Gilat Satellite Networks, O3b Networks, Telespazio, SES, and Ceragon, supported by Petrobras, and attracted the participation of the following organisations:

 

Anadarko Exploração e Produção de Petróleo e Gás Natural Ltda; Arycom Comunicação via Satélite Ltda; Baker Hughes; BP Energy do Brasil; Brastrading; BT Global Services; Carrierweb; Ceragon; Comtech EF Data; Comtech Xicom; Embratel; Gilat Satellite Networks; Grupo Hispasat; GVF Training Brazil; Hispamar Satélites S.A.; Harris CapRock; Hughes; Intelsat; Newtec America do Sul; O3b Networks; Odebrecht Oil & Gas; Orange Business Services; Petrobras; PUC University; Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás S.A.; Rictel Petroleum Service; RigNet Brazil; Schlumberger; Seadrill; SES; SkyWave; Star One; Statoil Brazil; Subsea 7; Telespazio Brasil; Telnav Telecomunicacoes Navais; Tesacom do Brasil; Union Engenharia de Telematica LTDA; and, Unisat.

 

The programme combined a series of Operator, Networks, Oil & Gas Business Strategy, Remote Operations, and Business Balance Sheet panel discussions and presentations covering such wide-ranging themes as:

 

The Global & Regional Satellite Operator View from Earth Orbit: Satellite Capacity Supply, Service Models, Solutions Delivery, and Oil & Gas Patch Capacity Demand; Satellite to the Cloud: Evolving New Commercial Oil & Gas Applications to the Satellite & Satellite-Hybrid Communications Environment; Data Monitoring, Data Management, Remote Operations, Collaboration & Value Added Services; High-Capacity, High-Throughput: New Satellite Systems Meet Big Oil’s Big Data; Wasting Bandwidth, Wasting Money: Bandwidth Monitoring and Optimization in Oil & Gas Satellite Networks;Bandwidth in Ka/Ku/C/L: Is There a Clear-Cut “Versus” for User Profit Margins?; Telepresence over Satellite: Scaling Technical Expertise & Maintaining Secure Lines of Communication to the Field;‘Satellite Connectivity Enables New Applications for the Mobility Industry, including the Oil & Gas Vertical’;Digital Oilfield 21st Century: The Rise of “Big Data”; Telemetry, Monitoring & Asset Tracking: M2M Terminal Application Dynamics for Oil & Gas; Defining the Mission Critical Networking Solution Communication Requirement for Deep-Water E&P: VSAT and Stabilised Microwave Wireless Backhaul; Oil & Gas & Satellite: South American Networking Case Studies in E&P; and, Radio Frequency Interference in the Oil & Gas Space: Industry Mitigation Strategies.

 

The presentations from the Brazil conference may be downloaded from the following webpage:

www.uk-emp.co.uk/emp-home/future-events/o-gcomms-brazil-program/

 

The organiser’s contact details are as follows. With GVF, Martin Jarrold at martin.jarrold@gvf.org. With EMP, Paul Stahl at paul.stahl@uk-emp.co.uk.