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30th
July 2013
The GVF-EMP
Conference
Partnership
have announced
details of the next
programmes in their
Oil & Gas
Communications
Conference Series
and High
Throughput Satellite
Roundtable Series,
programmes which
reflect some latest
developments in oil
and gas industry
communications
requirements, and in
the technological
and service delivery
capabilities of the
world’s leading
satellite operators
and networking
solutions providers.
The 6th Annual
Oil & Gas
Communications South
East Asia: Evolving
the ‘Big Data’
Digital Oilfield for
Offshore & Deep
Water
conference, the 19th
event in GVF-EMP’s
overall global
series, will take
place on 19th & 20th
November 2013 at the
InterContinental
Hotel, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.
Martin Jarrold,
GVF’s Chief of
International
Programme
Development, and
conference chairman,
commented, “Included
in this regional
conference programme
for the first time
will be dialogues on
Big Data –
the specialism which
focuses on solutions
and services to
store, manage,
protect and analyse
information
extracted from the
large volumes of
data generated by
the oil industry –
and the implications
for oil & gas E&P of
the interface of
machine-to-machine
(M2M) communications
and satellite
connectivity.”
Added Paul Stahl,
Managing Partner of
EMP, “The region's
countries exhibit
strong continuing
interest in meeting
as much domestic oil
& gas demand as
possible from home
sources in order to
slow import
dependency, boost
energy security, and
maximise the
potential for
accelerated growth.
Asia’s offshore
energy industry has
significant
potential to deliver
on the need for
assured
domestically-sourced
oil & gas supplies
on the basis of both
continuing
production from
already operating
fields and from the
accelerated
exploitation of the
newly discovered
reserves which will
bring the Big
Data.”
The Kuala Lumpur
conference is
endorsed by the
Asia Pacific
Satellite
Communications
Council (APSCC)
as Supporting
Regional Trade
Association.
The needs of Big
Data in oil and
gas are increasingly
likely be met by
high throughput
satellite (HTS)
systems, the focus
of a GVF-EMP event
in the following
month, in Europe.
High
Throughput
Satellites 2013: The
Game-Changer in
Action – The London
Roundtable
will take place at
the Strand Palace
Hotel on 5th & 6th
December 2013,
delivering the third
programme in this
GVF-EMP conference
series. The
Roundtable Series
continues to offer a
highly topical and
timely platform for
discussion, just as
more satellite
operators are
bringing HTS
capabilities to
orbit and to the
market.
“Globally, there are
massive growth
opportunities for
consumer and
enterprise satellite
broadband
solutions," said
David Hartshorn,
Secretary General of
GVF.
“During High
Throughput
Satellites 2013,
front-line experts
will share insights
into the new
applications being
delivered, the new
market sectors being
served, and the
business models that
are changing the way
that satellite
communications are
provided today.”
Martin Jarrold, who
will co-chair The
London Roundtable,
added, “Such
discussion will be
premised on dialogue
which will have
already set-out the
importance of
understanding what
exactly
characterises HTS in
terms of –
throughput;
efficiency;
spectrum; coverage;
and, architecture.”
He continued, “The
programme will
explore the new
engineering
challenges arising
from the new HTS
communications
technologies and
solutions, including
new development
opportunities in
both space segment
and a range of
ground segment
environments. From
the orbital
perspective, the
programme will
examine the current
and future
engineering of high
throughput payloads
in terms of
maximising the
potential of
multiple spot-beam
and frequency reuse
architectures. From
the ground segment
perspective this
session will look at
infrastructure
evolution, and the
planning, design,
deployment &
managing of HTS
terminals/earth
stations, including
antenna technology
product quality and
installation,
HTS-enabled
terminals and user
expectations,
understanding rain
fade issues, and
device portability.”
Additionally
announced by GVF-EMP
is Connectivity
2014: Air, Water,
Surface & Rail,
which will also take
place in London, in
February 2014 (exact
dates to be
announced). This
event will look at
being connected to
the Internet,
whenever you want,
wherever you are,
wherever you’re
going to, and
however you’re
getting there, with
fast broadband data
speeds.
Paul Stahl of EMP
noted, “In the
metropolitan
workplace and in the
urban or suburban
home, the
multiple-tens of
Mbps service has
become commonplace
with the deployment
of fixed fibre-based
infrastructures by
telecoms service
providers. But,
increasingly, for an
ever-growing
proportion of an
ever-more demanding
user base, this is
not enough,
particularly as the
user-to-device/terminal
relationship
continues its
migration away from
interfacing with
desktop/laptop PCs
with local hard
drive data storage
and towards
interfacing with
tablets and
smartphones with
increasing volumes
of data storage in
the Cloud.”
Martin Jarrold
added, “This is a
migration which
places an
overwhelming
emphasis on the
opportunity for
Internet
connectivity and
access to multimedia
services which meet
the seemingly
insatiable demand
for increasingly
video-based
enterprise and
social media
applications, whilst
the user is entirely
mobile, whether
pounding the urban
street, taking a
country stroll,
riding a train,
flying on a plane,
or taking a trip
across the sea.
Connectivity 2014 is
the platform to
discuss this
environment, and the
platform to
facilitate
understanding of the
central role of
satellite in
broadband mobility.”
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