The GVF-EMP Conference Partnership have today announced further details of the GVF Oil & Gas Communications Brazil Conference, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro over 16th and 17th April 2013 at the Windsor Plaza Hotel, Copacabana.
The Rio conference brings the GVF-EMP Oil & Gas Communications Series to its 17th event globally. The conference programme will address the communications networking imperatives of the Brazilian region of the global ‘oil & gas patch’, including emerging issues – such as “Big Data” – on the regional exploration & production (E&P) communications and applications networking agenda.
Just like the 2012 Brazil conference – also held in Rio in recognition of the fact that most of Brazil’s oil is produced offshore of the country’s south-eastern states – Petrobras representatives will be providing technical content relating to satellite communications as applied, and as experienced, by company engineers. The Petrobras case study-type contributions to the two-day conference programme will augment discussion of topics that will examine the full range of satellite-based communications, and integrated satellite-terrestrial hybrid communications solutions, to which the oil & gas industry turns to play a vital role in providing essential connectivity and access to vital applications.
Brazil's exploration for, and production of, new hydrocarbon reserves has already moved increasingly to dangerous, difficult (and otherwise very expensive) environments, where the extreme physical conditions of a hostile climate and multiple geographic/topographic obstacles are as equally challenging as the investment imperatives that must be faced in the remote deployment of drilling equipment. Further presentations will be provided by Intelsat, O3b Networks, Gilat Satellite Networks, Telespazio, RigNet, Baker Hughes, Comtech EF Data, Hispamar, Hughes, RED 52, Tesacom, SkyWave, Harris CapRock, and national operator Embratel, directly and through its satcoms subsidiary StarOne. Other participants will be included as the programme evolves.
A developing theme in the environment of satellite communications for oil & gas is that of “high-capacity” or “high-throughput” satellites, many operating with very high bandwidth provision in the Ka-band region of the radio frequency spectrum, though with others operating in Ku-band. This subject will be just one of a range of new topics of discussion which have been included in the conference programme for the first time in 2013.
The full range of topics will cover:
GROUP 1 – The Operators
The View from Earth Orbit: Satellite Operator Capacity Supply & Oil & Gas Patch Capacity Demand | High-Capacity, High-Throughput: New Satellite Systems Meet Big Oil’s Big Data | Global & Regional: Satellite Operator Service Models & Solution Delivery into the Oil & Gas Space | Satellite & Cyberspace: Ensuring Security for Critical Data Infrastructures | Radio Frequency Interference in the Oil & Gas Space: Industry Mitigation Strategies – Installer & Maintenance Training for the Offshore Environment, Equipment Product Quality Assurance & Network Validation Analyses
GROUP 2 – The Networks
Digital Oilfield 21st Century: The Rise of “Big Data” | Defining the Mission Critical Communication Requirement for Deepwater E&P | Networking Solution Technology Innovations in Oil & Gas: Is there a First Mile/Last Mile Paradigm Shift? | Satellite to the Cloud: Evolving New Commercial Oil & Gas Applications to the Satellite & Satellite-Hybrid Communications Environment | Wasting Bandwidth, Wasting Money: Bandwidth Monitoring and Optimization in Oil & Gas Satellite Networks | Network Performance Optimisation: The Technical Analytics Understood | Oil & Gas Networking Vulnerabilities: The Satellite Security Guarantee | Optimising the E&P WAN
GROUP 3 – The Technology
Out-of-band Control & Monitoring Solutions for the Oil & Gas Patch | Leveraging Antenna Technology Advantages: Stabilized, Ruggedized & Auto-Deploy Technology in the Oil & Gas E&P Environment | Stabilised Antennas: Understanding Reliability & Maintenance Variables | Satellite Earth Station Equipment: Case Studies on Maintenance Requirements & Implementation
GROUP 4 – The Balance Sheet
Where’s the RoI? Offshore Communications, Global SatComs Trends & the South American ‘Oil & Gas Patch’ | Bandwidth in Ka/Ku/C/L: Is There a Clearcut “Versus” for User Profit Margins? | The Oil & Gas Company Business Challenge: Where Communications Deliver the Competitive Solutions
GROUP 5 – Remote Operations
Data Monitoring, Data Management, Remote Collaboration | The Visual Imperative in Oil & Gas: Where Video Meets E&P | Defining the Wireless World of the FPSO & Semi-Submersible Environment | Telepresence over Satellite: Scaling Technical Expertise & Maintaining Secure Lines of Communication to the Field | Rigs, Platforms & Supply Vessels: Crew Welfare for the Long Haul – O&G Personnel Perspectives | Tankers & Supply Ships: Advanced Satellite Communications & Fleet Movement Management | Control, Monitoring & Asset Tracking: The Application Dynamics for Oil & Gas
GROUP 6 – O&G Business Strategy
MegaBits per Second and Dollars per Day: Defining the Most Cost-Effective Communications Solutions for Oil & Gas | Development, Deployment Advanced Networking Communications Infrastructures to Realise Brazil’s Deepwater Reserves | Oil & Gas VSAT: South American Networking Case Studies in E&P | Defining the Business Mission Critical Link: Maintaining Oil & Gas Communications When Disaster Strikes
Latest updates on the 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-brazil-2013/.
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.
