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Paper title "Broadband VSAT Services - New Perspective for Oil and Gas Applications"
Author:
Mohammed Al-Jaroudi Oil and Gas field explorations and productions facilities operate in hard environments, very hot deserts, cold fields and open sea and ocean. They are located at hundreds of miles from their centralized offices in unpopulated areas and basic requirements such as reliable terrestrial commutations can not be granted. Harsh condition and remote locations make a reliable communications system more essential to monitor the drilling and seismic real time data, perform daily production and marketing of the bulk plants and Air Fueling and to conduct the daily maintenance of the marine offshore platforms and to respond to emergencies. Broadband VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) communications is therefore a vital and a key element to support the Oil and Gas daily operations and provides means of communications with their centralized operation centers. VSAT communication networks have proven the reliability to support the oil and gas operations by providing broadband data, voice and video applications. VSAT systems have enabled the drilling and seismic operations to introduce new applications like geosteering real time applications that couldn't be achieved in the past using terrestrial communications. This presentation highlights and discusses the high potential market of Oil and Gas users and it presents also the VSAT requirements of Oil and Gas operations based on field experiences to be considered by the SatLabs Group and VSAT DVB-RCS manufacturers in order to continuously support the oil and gas industry and to provide a single VSAT DVB-RCS technology platform solution for all needs. |