The Crowne Plaza Mutiara Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, will be the venue for the next conference in the GVF-EMP Oil & Gas Communications Series on 20th-21st November 2012. ‘Oil & Gas Communications South East Asia 2012: Re-Defining the Digital Oilfield – Onshore, Offshore, Deep& Ultra-Deep Water’ will be the 16th event in the global conference series, and will be held just as new hydrocarbons reserves are becoming accessible to the international exploration and production (E&P) environment.
In various parts of the South East Asia region new oil frontiers are being opened up, particularly in deeper waters and particularly in countries such as the Philippines and Myanmar which, formerly, did not have any significant levels of offshore activity. These developments are expected to greatly increase demand for subsea units in a region which traditionally dominated by shallow water production. This demand will contribute to making the region the third highest investor in the world in terms of offshore oil & gas CAPEX, behind only Africa and Europe.
Sponsored by Inmarsat, Intelsat, and Hermes Datacomms, the conference will also be the 5th for the South East Asia region and, as of the above date, will feature speakers from a wide range of satellite communications solution providers, and energy sector communications solution end-users, including Inmarsat, Intelsat, Hermes Datacomms, Spacenet Thailand, SkyWave, ND SatCom, MT-Marine Technologies, Iridium, Northern Sky Research, PTS Thailand/GVF Training, and others, plus Petronas, iPerintis, and a number of other regional operating companies.
Reflecting on Inmarsat’s support for this latest conference in the Oil & Gas Communications Series, Simon Curran, Business Development Manager, Energy Division, Inmarsat, said "Inmarsat is pleased to be supporting GVF Oil & Gas Communications South East Asia. “The Energy Division looks forward to this opportunity to present our perspectives, as a satellite operator, on expanding the portfolio of satellite services for the oil & gas industry. Our objectives for the conference include offering our examination of how satcoms can assist the energy sector with regard to risk management, together with looking in detail at how satcoms can help mitigate problems relating to under-supply, pipeline integrity, remote worker welfare and retention, high-value asset security, etc. This fascinating topic analysis has been previously discussed at the level of the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD).” The two-day programme will examine a combination of satellite-based communications, and integrated satellite-terrestrial hybrid communications solutions, to which the oil & gas industry upstream segment (and also the downstream segment) turns to play a vital role in providing the essential connectivity to access the vital applications necessary to facilitate:
• Regional oil & gas industry optimisation of production and exploration activities;
• Efforts to enhance the region’s upstream domestic production;
• Maximised use of the potential for Information & Communications Technologies to enhance oil & gas recovery.
The multiple disciplines and professional perspectives that contribute to the above must always include reference to the fact that mission critical operational success in the upstream E&P environment is increasingly dependent on access to the most efficient information and communications technologies (ICTs). Bringing these technologies to the market, along with Inmarsat, are two companies which are also supporting ‘Oil & Gas Communications South East Asia 2012: Re-Defining the Digital Oilfield – Onshore, Offshore, Deep& Ultra-Deep Water’ – Intelsat and Hermes Datacomms.
“Intelsat is delighted to participate in GVF Oil & Gas Communications South East Asia, the premier event for discussing the communications needs of companies operating in this oil-rich and geographically diverse region. We look forward to presenting our approach to meeting infrastructure requirements, highlighted by our recently announced Intelsat EpicNG satellite platform. We believe this high-throughput satellite offering, a complement to our current fleet and IntelsatOne terrestrial network, offers the flexibility, scalability and affordability to meet the communications needs of the oil & gas sector today and into the future.” noted Terry Bleakley, Regional Vice President, Asia Pacific Sales, at Intelsat.
Mohd Faizal Zainal Amri, General Manager of Hermes Datacomms Malaysia added, “Today’s oil and gas industry is very demanding indeed. They require more reliability and greater bandwidth, for a wider range of applications, than ever before, whilst at the same time controlling costs and meeting space constraints and safety issues in the field. The GVF Conference is valuable in providing a forum to share information about the best approaches to meeting these challenges, and the new technologies available.”
Growth in energy resource demand in parts of Asia continue to point out the fact that Asia’s offshore energy industry does indeed have significant potential to deliver on the need for assured oil & gas supplies, and this potential will ultimately depend on the ubiquity, reliability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness of satellite communications. The Kuala Lumpur conference agenda will be discussing these issues, across a range of discussion themes, as follows:
• The Analysts View of the Future Evolution of Oil & Gas Patch Communications: Global SatComs Trends in the Asian Sphere • 21st Century Asian Oilfield Connectivity Trends: Maximizing Growth Opportunity from E&P ICT
• Evolution of Asia’s Offshore Communications up to the 21st Century • Onshore, Offshore, Deep & Ultra-Deep Water E&P: Redefining South East Asia’s Mission Critical Communication Requirement • New Communications at the Cutting-Edge of Digital Oil & Gas: Leveraging on HTS and the Ka-Band
• New Satcom Capacity Business Models: Achieving More bang per Buck (or Barrel)! • Expanding the Portfolio of Satellite Services for the Oil & Gas Industry • Advanced Oil & Gas ICT: High Demand Communications for Crew Welfare Applications
• First Mile/Last Mile Networking Solution Innovations in Oil & Gas • New Features in Digital Oilfield Applications Collaboration: Where does Cloud-over-Satellite Networking fit?
• The South East Asian Digital Oilfield: Real-Time Data Monitoring, Data Management Remote Collaboration & Operations Support Centers • Development, Deployment & Return on Investment: Advanced Networking Communications Infrastructures & Value-Added Services to Realize Asian Deepwater Reserves
• The Satellite Operator in the Asian Oil & Gas Patch: Planning Capacity Provision & Deploying Service Supply • Evolving Commercial Oil & Gas Applications to Satellite & Satellite-Hybrid Communications Environments • The Business Mission Critical Link: Maintaining Oil & Gas Communications When Disaster Strikes • Defining the Wireless World of the Oil & Gas E&P Environment • Wireless Connectivity in the Energy Sector: A Gas Network Case Study & Analysis
• The Remote Application of Auto-Deploy Antenna Technology for Oil & Gas • Oil & Gas Communications at the Environmental Extreme: Case Studies
• The WAN Optimization Imperative for Oil & Gas E&P • ‘SatCommunity’: Communications Solutions and O&G Corporate Social Responsibility in Remote Regions
• MWD: Measurement While Drilling & Other Real-Time Down-Hole Services in the Digital Oilfield • Hydrocarbon Hunger & Environmental Impact: Licensing & Regulation for Oil & Gas E&P
• Oil, Gas & Communications Spectrum: Interference Challenges & Challenging Interference
More information about ‘Oil & Gas Communications South East Asia 2012: Re-Defining the Digital Oilfield – Onshore, Offshore, Deep & Ultra-Deep Water’ is available at www.uk-emp.co.uk/future-events-2012-13. For details of all GVF-EMP events, please contact martin.jarrold@gvf.org or paul.stahl@uk-emp.co.uk.
