15th International Oil & Gas Communications 2012
16-17 May 2012. Organized by GVF UKLocation: United Kingdom Aberdeen Marriott Hotel, Dyce
Date: 5/16/2012
Organizer: GVF UK
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The 5th Annual GVF Oil & Gas Communications Europe Conference (O&GCE2012) is also the 15th event in the global Oil & Gas Communications Series organized by GVF and EMP. The Series is now into its seventh year, and the 2012 Aberdeen conference takes a leap into new hydrocarbon geographies and the latest communications technologies.
The programme for this latest event dedicated to the European “oil & gas patch” – which will examine the role of satellite, and satellite-wireless, technologies and services in continuing to bring mission critical operational success to the maturing oil & gas fields of the North Sea – will push into a deeper exploration of the communications imperatives and the delivery of networking solutions for the extreme northerly boundary of Europe’s new hydrocarbon exploration & production (E&P) opportunity.
As the Arctic Nations of Europe – Denmark, Norway and Russia – look to the ocean floor hydrocarbon resource potential of the Arctic Basin rock strata, and as global climate change warms the environment of the Arctic latitudes, opening-up the North-Western and North-Eastern Passages to year-round maritime navigation – allowing the positioning of semi-submersible and floating drilling platforms – the satellite and wireless communications industry must begin to gear-up for, and to respond to, this new business opportunity. So, the first and biggest questions become: How should the communication sector go about this? What lessons can be learned from the communications solutions developed during the evolution of North Sea offshore E&P? How can these lessons be applied, albeit using more modern and sophisticated technology platforms, in the context of the even more geographically challenging physical environment of the Arctic?
However, North Sea reserves of oil & gas, though continuing to mature, are not yet exhausted, and cutting-edge information and communications technology (ICT) solutions remain of the highest importance in their further exploitation. Use of the very latest extraction technologies, supported by the latest communications and networking solutions means that North Sea oil & gas supplies are still of economic interest, still a financially viable resource.
No one would deny that mission critical operational success in the oil & gas E&P environment has been dependent on access to the most efficient information and communications technologies (ICTs), and to the wealth of sophisticated applications these technologies bring to the disposal of the teams of geologists, geophysicists, drilling engineers, seismic data analysts, etc., who notonly locate new oil & gas reserves but assist in developing more effective and efficient techniques for yielding them from beneath the ocean floor. Equally, no one would deny that satellite, satellite-wireless hybrid, and wireless platforms, have made, and continue to make, a vital contribution to this ICT access, providing essential connectivity to vital applications in a range of challenging geographic environments.
However, this is a role which, though well developed, still has potential to evolve and expand. Therefore, O&GCE5 will explore this future evolution and expansion, not only with reference to the later stages of North Sea E&P, but with reference to the emergence of the fresh energy-yielding potential of the high northern latitudes.
The conference programme will include examination of the interface between Cloud Computing and Satellite Communications. The move from client server to cloud is an ICT paradigm shift requiring detailed attention by the satellite solutions provider community. As over-the-Internet provision of dynamically scalable, and virtualized, resources, in the form of web-based tools and applications offers-up important implications for the communications solution provider, it also does so for such end-users of ‘The Cloud’ as the oil & gas industry.
Additionally, the programme will include an exploration of the role of the newest maritime stabilized and auto-deploy VSAT systems, a role increasingly relevant in ever-more eographically remote and environmentally extreme locations, as well as a high profile analysis of the contribution to E&P satcoms of Ka-band satellite technology.
To this end, the Conference will bring together key leaders and experts from the oil & gas sector as well as the communications and commercial applications sectors, creating a high-level discussion forum, and providing extended networking opportunities for demand (end-user) and supply (vendor) expert practitioners. This networking dialogue will be set against the backdrop of a conference programme in which the nature of the applications and communications imperatives of the dynamic 21st Century energy market vertical will be fully addressed through a series of themed Interactive Sessions, Case Studies and Technology Showcase Presentations.
The programme for this latest event dedicated to the European “oil & gas patch” – which will examine the role of satellite, and satellite-wireless, technologies and services in continuing to bring mission critical operational success to the maturing oil & gas fields of the North Sea – will push into a deeper exploration of the communications imperatives and the delivery of networking solutions for the extreme northerly boundary of Europe’s new hydrocarbon exploration & production (E&P) opportunity.
As the Arctic Nations of Europe – Denmark, Norway and Russia – look to the ocean floor hydrocarbon resource potential of the Arctic Basin rock strata, and as global climate change warms the environment of the Arctic latitudes, opening-up the North-Western and North-Eastern Passages to year-round maritime navigation – allowing the positioning of semi-submersible and floating drilling platforms – the satellite and wireless communications industry must begin to gear-up for, and to respond to, this new business opportunity. So, the first and biggest questions become: How should the communication sector go about this? What lessons can be learned from the communications solutions developed during the evolution of North Sea offshore E&P? How can these lessons be applied, albeit using more modern and sophisticated technology platforms, in the context of the even more geographically challenging physical environment of the Arctic?
However, North Sea reserves of oil & gas, though continuing to mature, are not yet exhausted, and cutting-edge information and communications technology (ICT) solutions remain of the highest importance in their further exploitation. Use of the very latest extraction technologies, supported by the latest communications and networking solutions means that North Sea oil & gas supplies are still of economic interest, still a financially viable resource.
No one would deny that mission critical operational success in the oil & gas E&P environment has been dependent on access to the most efficient information and communications technologies (ICTs), and to the wealth of sophisticated applications these technologies bring to the disposal of the teams of geologists, geophysicists, drilling engineers, seismic data analysts, etc., who notonly locate new oil & gas reserves but assist in developing more effective and efficient techniques for yielding them from beneath the ocean floor. Equally, no one would deny that satellite, satellite-wireless hybrid, and wireless platforms, have made, and continue to make, a vital contribution to this ICT access, providing essential connectivity to vital applications in a range of challenging geographic environments.
However, this is a role which, though well developed, still has potential to evolve and expand. Therefore, O&GCE5 will explore this future evolution and expansion, not only with reference to the later stages of North Sea E&P, but with reference to the emergence of the fresh energy-yielding potential of the high northern latitudes.
The conference programme will include examination of the interface between Cloud Computing and Satellite Communications. The move from client server to cloud is an ICT paradigm shift requiring detailed attention by the satellite solutions provider community. As over-the-Internet provision of dynamically scalable, and virtualized, resources, in the form of web-based tools and applications offers-up important implications for the communications solution provider, it also does so for such end-users of ‘The Cloud’ as the oil & gas industry.
Additionally, the programme will include an exploration of the role of the newest maritime stabilized and auto-deploy VSAT systems, a role increasingly relevant in ever-more eographically remote and environmentally extreme locations, as well as a high profile analysis of the contribution to E&P satcoms of Ka-band satellite technology.
To this end, the Conference will bring together key leaders and experts from the oil & gas sector as well as the communications and commercial applications sectors, creating a high-level discussion forum, and providing extended networking opportunities for demand (end-user) and supply (vendor) expert practitioners. This networking dialogue will be set against the backdrop of a conference programme in which the nature of the applications and communications imperatives of the dynamic 21st Century energy market vertical will be fully addressed through a series of themed Interactive Sessions, Case Studies and Technology Showcase Presentations.
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