This document provides information about an upcoming conference on oil and gas telecommunications to be held March 18-21, 2014 in London. The conference will focus on key topics related to managing data and implementing telecommunications networks in the oil and gas industry. It lists speakers from various oil and gas companies and technology providers. The document also provides details on pre-conference and post-conference workshops on fundamentals of satellite communications and managed network services.

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Enabling the Digital Oil and Gas Field
Marriott Hotel, Regent’s Park, London
2014
Key topic insights:
• Managing the increasing complexity
and volume of data being transmitted
across the organisation
• Big Data - Enabling real-time production
decision making with super-fast
connectivity
• Project managing the telecoms
requirements for frontier exploration and
production sites
• Real-time machine condition monitoring
for oil and gas production sites
• High throughput VSAT – Exploring the
benefits of improved bandwidth and
dealing with its deployment
• What part will microwave technology
play in accelerating the realisation of
remotely operated offshore platforms?
• Implementing a cyber-security strategy
that benefits the delivery of exploration
and production operations and business
requirements
• How advances in telecoms technology
and strategy will drive operational
efficiency
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Key Speakers include:
• Gordon Duncan, Security, Network and Telecoms Technical
Authority, ConocoPhillips
• Berry Mulder, Global Program Leader Wireless Technology
for Process Facilities, Shell
• Ian Theophilus, Global Infrastructure Manager, Tullow Oil
• Petros G. Theodorakis, ICT Director, Hellenic Gas
Transmission System Operator (DESFA)
• Alasdair Macleod, IT Project Manager, Knightsbridge
Project, EnQuest
• Richard Brown, Managing Director, Straxia
• Ifiok Otung, Professor of Satellite Communications,
University of Glamorgan
• Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms
• Simon Bull, Senior Consultant, Comsys
• Fraser Edwards, Consultant, Cambridge Consultants
• Paul Febvre, Chief Technology Officer, Satellite
Applications Catapult
PLUS AN INTERACTIVE PRE-CONFERENCE ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
18th March, 2014 - Marriott Hotel, Regents Park, London
Fundamentals of Satellite Communications Technology
09.00-16.30
Workshop Leader: Tim Tozer, Senior Lecturer, Department of Electronics,
University of York
AND AN INTERACTIVE POST-CONFERENCE HALF-DAY WORKSHOP
21st March, 2014 - Marriott Hotel, Regents Park, London
Managed Network Services Delivering Value on the Global WAN
09.00-13.00
Workshop Leader: Gary Steer, CTO, Hermes Datacomms
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2. Oil and Gas Telecommunications
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Day One Wednesday 19th March 2014
8.30
Registration & Coffee
12.10
Networking Lunch
9.00
Chair's opening remarks
Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms
1.30
Deploying telecommunications in Libya for onshore drilling
Protecting infrastructure and information
9.10
9.50
How to secure a demilitarised zone (DMZ) and provide a
logical framework and design within an industrial automation
control system network
• Why segregation and securing against cyber-attacks is
important between Enterprise IT and industrial process
control IT infrastructure
Gordon Duncan, Security, Network and Telecoms Technical
Authority, ConocoPhillips
Management and technology in cyber security
- Delivering results more cost effectively in combination with
people management
• Developing a security culture with the right processes in
support of the latest technology
• How a private fibre optic based corporate network
afforded greater flexibility and control for cyber security
• Authentication, logging, and security policies for multiple
services – when does managing cyber security become too
complex for it to be effective?
Petros G. Theodorakis, ICT Director, Hellenic Gas Transmission
System Operator (DESFA)
10.30
Morning Coffee
10.50
Frontier communication challenges
• Robotics: driving, flying, swimming, climbing. Where are
they and how do we control them?
• Arctic & remote: how to create long-distance highbandwidth communication to extreme locations
• Collaboration & commercialisation: when to go from spotsolutions to generic services
• Sensor networks: a hundred sensors is OK, a thousand is a
challenge, how about communicating with a million?
Berry Mulder, Global Program Leader Wireless Technology for
Process Facilities, Shell
Maximising telecommunications network bandwidth and limiting
downtime to drive efficiencies across the organisation
11.30
Case study: Reducing the time it takes to collect and review
seismic data from 2 weeks to 12 hours - technological
innovation and the commercial benefits
• Use of satellite technology for high volume data transfer
• Tackling the issues of physical data movement between
seismic camps and HQ
• Utilising VSAT technology to reduce time and cost
associated with G&G seismic reviews
Ian Theophilus, Global Infrastructure Manager, Tullow Oil
• Challenges of implementing IT in the field and an in-country
data centre
• Implementing a decision-making process for technology
specifications
• Coordinating the requirements of contractors and the client
Richard Brown, Managing Director, Straxia
2.10
Big Data - Enabling real-time production decision making
with super-fast connectivity
• Integrating networking with different services running across
the network - Latest developments in network efficiency
• How will latency and bandwidth challenges limit the scope
of remotely operated platforms?
• What is the weakest link in telecoms technology inhibiting
the full potential of Big Data?
Speaker tbc, Oil and Gas Operator
2.50
Afternoon Tea
Telecommunications project management
3.10
Focusing on users - optimising your network strategy
• How to face inwards to users, rather than outwards to
vendors
• Delivering cost efficient communications across a diverse
global WAN
• Managing the users rather than the service providers
Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms
3.50
Project managing the telecoms requirements for frontier
exploration and production sites
• Geo-location challenge - Assessing the problems faced in
delivering reliable and robust telecoms in remote areas
• Climate control – Assessing equipment performance and
reliability in extreme climate conditions
• Delivering telecoms as part of the completed project’s
needs
Speaker tbc, Oil and Gas Operator
4.30
Chair's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
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Day Two Thursday 20th March 2014
8.30
Registration & Coffee
How technology advances will impact telecommunications strategy
in the medium-to-long term
9.00
Chair's opening remarks
9.10
Case Study: Use of microwave communications in “frontier”
11.40
Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms
North Sea oil & gas operation
• Brief overview of the technology choices (satellite,
microwave line of sight) - strengths and weaknesses
• Some of the technical considerations/learnings/challenges
in delivering a line-of-sight solution as opposed to satellite
a. FPSO movements – Line of Sight obstructions
b. Distance between end points (curvature of earth)
12.20
c. Structural challenges (build of 17m x 35m antenna
1.50
support mast)
• The strategic view (speaker’s opinion)
a. Types of offshore data/‘telemetry’ available
b. Decision support vs. command and control?
Alasdair Macleod, IT Project Manager, Knightsbridge Project,
EnQuest
The role of telecommunications in delivering
the digital oil field
9.50
New advances in wireless real-time sensing and control for
high-density networks
2.30
• What are the technical challenges of using wireless
technologies to manage a high-density of terminals with
real-time control requirements?
• How the latest telecoms approaches from LTE and WiMAX
are being applied for localised sensing and control for
industrial applications
Fraser Edwards, Consultant, Cambridge Consultants
3.10
10.30
Morning Coffee
11.00
How do microwave communications form part of a strategy
to manage oil and gas operations?
• How is microwave technology developing in support of oil
and gas industry needs?
• What part will microwave technology play in accelerating
the realisation of remotely operated offshore platforms?
• How are the advantages of microwave technology -
bandwidth and latency - best put to use in oil and gas
exploration and production?
Speaker tbc, Microwave Communications Solutions Provider
4.00
4.10
Defining the important questions about Ka-band
• What is the best frequency band for my satellite link?
• Determining the best use for Ka-band
• Is Ka-band destined to be restricted to Europe for primary
communication?
• Technology and specification update for Ka-band
communications technology
• Just how big a problem is rain fade? Could the frequency
support telecoms needs in extreme weather environments?
• What are the advantages of Ka-band in the digital oilfield?
Simon Bull, Senior Consultant, Comsys
Networking Lunch
Satellite technology update: High-throughput satellite –
Exploring the benefits of improved bandwidth and dealing
with its deployment
• Does higher throughput necessarily mean higher
performance?
• How will end users need to upgrade other legacy
equipment to take full advantage?
• Developing a pooled-bandwidth model for satellite - the
benefits of having satellite on demand rather than specific
site links
Paul Febvre, Chief Technology Officer, Satellite Applications
Catapult
The impact of cloud computing adoption and information
security
• Cloud adoption is going to happen across all industries
• The movement of different classes of data to the cloud will
result in the adoption of different business practices
• The use of different methods for achieving cloud security
will mean different things to different companies and result
in a heterogeneous ICT landscape
Dr David Wallom, Associate Director - Oxford e-Research
Centre, University of Oxford
From GEO to LEO/MEO: Benefits of lower orbit satellite
communications for the oil and gas industry
• What’s out there? Introducing the different competing
satellite technologies
• Latency issues and impact on data throughput and user
experience
• 03b versus Iridium: Trading truly global reach for flexible
broadband deployment
• TCP/IP over satellite: A future-proof technology for the oil
and gas industry?
Ifiok Otung, Professor of Satellite Communications,
University of Glamorgan
Chair's Closing Remarks and Close of Conference
Afternoon Tea
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4. INTERACTIVE PRE-CONFERENCE ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
18th March 2014,
Marriott Hotel, Regent’s Park, London
09.00 - 16.30
Fundamentals of Satellite
Communications Technology
Overview of workshop
This workshop provides a technical overview of satellite
communications. It presents the principles of operation of
satcoms and explores the advantages & features of this
technology and its services. Key technology elements such
as satellites themselves and terminals (including VSATs) are
described, and features of system design are introduced.
The fundamentals of link performance and link budgets are
developed, and important associated terminology
explained.
Aspects such as modulation & coding,
propagation and interference are also addressed, along
with data service provision, design comparisons and
challenges. The workshop presents technical detail based
upon fundamental principles, but in the context of modern
satcom systems. It includes a little very simple mathematics,
but should be accessible to those without any prior
specialist background.
Why you should attend
This workshop will provide a valuable foundation of
technical understanding for all those connected with
satellite communications, whether as system designers,
users, installers, regulators, purchasers, or simply those
wanting to understand this important technology. It will
allow some critical appreciation of design aspects,
opportunities and limitations. In particular the workshop will
provide attendees with confidence in dealing with
satcoms, its applications, terminology and parameters.
Agenda
08.30
Registration
09.00
Satcoms overview & setting the scene - Outline
of satellite communications & services. Strengths,
opportunities & weaknesses of satellite
communications. GEO and LEO orbit
introduction. Basic architectures & links and
frequency bands. Principal system elements:
Satellites; Terminals. Users, service providers,
services overview, ownership, operation,
regulatory context.
Coffee break
10.30
10.45
Link fundamentals - Key link parameters and their
impact on system requirements & performance.
Power, dB, concepts of basic link operation &
trade-offs, fundamentals of link budgets, PFD,
EIRP. Introduction to Noise & related parameters
(noise temperature, NF), C/N, C/No, G/T.
Modulation & Coding. Illustrative performance
examples and trade-offs (GEO systems).
12.15
Lunch
13.15
Satellites, services & systems - Satcom frequency
bands & characteristics: L-, C-, Ku-, Ka-band.
Propagation aspects, availability, grade-ofservice. Orbits in more detail. Footprints,
coverage. Satellite engineering principles and
examples; design aspects & constraints. Multiple
access schemes. Key providers and services
overview. System comparisons and trade-offs.
Coffee break
14.45
15.00
Operation, performance and constraints Antenna types and comparisons. Terminal &
VSAT design, installation & constraints.
Regulatory aspects & interference. Data
services over satellite. TCP-IP issues. DVB-based
services & standards. Commercial pressures &
trends. Q&A.
16.30
End of workshop
About the workshop host:
Tim Tozer, Senior Lecturer, Department of Electronics,
University of York
Tim Tozer has over 30 years’ experience with satellite
communications. He was involved in the design of
satcom systems for the UK MoD for many years, and
subsequently moved to an academic position at the
University of York. He teaches extensively at both
undergraduate and postgraduate level and has
engaged in and managed numerous research projects
related to satcoms. Tim is a named author on over 180
academic and technical publications. He was Chair of
the IET Professional Network on Satellite Systems &
Applications, and has been actively involved with the IET
Summer School on Satellite Communications since 1985 –
for the past several years as Course Leader. Tim has
contributed to many other short courses both in the UK
and abroad, including Workshops for the Global VSAT
Forum (GVF); he was also responsible for setting up and
running the York VSATs Course.

5. INTERACTIVE POST-CONFERENCE ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
21st March 2014,
Marriott Hotel, Regent’s Park, London
09.00 - 13.00
Managed Network Services Delivering Value on the
Global WAN
In association with
Overview of workshop
This workshop will set out how a commercially flexible
framework can be established for global network services in
the Oil & Gas sector, covering the commercial and
technical aspects of the provision of managed services on
a global basis. The Oil & Gas sector is increasingly moving
to a centralised data centre model and requires reliable
communications with a consistent SLA across all sites. This
workshop will show demonstrations of latest technology
and service management tools as well as networking and
discussions sessions.
Why you should attend
Cost savings and the availability of resource to manage
your global WAN are increasingly on the agenda from not
only the CFO but the CIO and IT management team. Find
out how to optimise costs and resource whilst retaining
control evidenced by current case studies.
Agenda
08.30
Registration & coffee
09.00
Opening remarks - introductions
09.10
Managed network services overview – intelligent
network outsourcing
With an increasing move to centralised data
centre access for user applications, how can the
IT team ensure they prioritise managing users
and not the service providers? CIO experience in
this area will be explored.
09.30
Managing a global network
• Organisation considerations
• Geographical planning
• Whose IP is it anyway? - Responsibilities of
customer and provider
• How much do you outsource to gain
maximum benefit?
10.15
Technologies to support a global network
How can the IT team take the pain from making
technology decisions on the network? This
session will describe a technology agnostic
approach to advising on technologies to adopt
whilst retaining control of the decision making.
Morning coffee
10.45
11.15
Designing and building a global network
• What is the real SLA and MTTR?
• Demonstrations
• Voice QoS
• Throughput optimisation
• NetFlow
• Overcoming latency issues
• Riverbed acceleration
• Out of band management
Discussion forum – current Issues and shared
12.15
learning
We’re all in it together so how can we benefit
from our shared experience as both vendors and
IT teams, to improve service provision to our
customers (the end users).Here we will explore
how to drive WAN strategy.
13.00
End of workshop
Your workshop leader:
Gary Steer, CTO, Hermes Datacomms
About Hermes Datacomms
Hermes is a British company owned by its directors and
backed by private equity with over 20 years of experience
providing
high
quality,
reliable
and
efficient
communications to the oil & gas industry, particularly in
difficult and challenging locations. We have a strong
regional presence in the Middle East, Americas, Europe,
Africa, Asia Pacific, Russia and Central Asia. Hermes now
provides coverage in 88% of the world’s oil reserves and
92% of the world’s gas reserves. Hermes has over 13 offices
in 9 countries and employs over 120 people worldwide,
with over 400 VSAT installations and Earthstations in the UK,
Denmark, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, UAE, Singapore,
Australia and USA. Hermes provides service to several
prestigious customers within the oil & gas industry,
including Maersk, Parker Drilling, PSN, KBR, BP, Eni, Fluor,
Petronas, to name a few. Our approach is to manage and
control all aspects of the network, end-to-end, including
licensing and logistics at both ends of the satellite link. That
way, we ensure networks are delivered on-time and on
budget, comply with local laws, and meet the most
demanding operational standards.

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CONFERENCE: 19th - 20th March, 2014, Marriott Hotel, Regent’s Park, London
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