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Telecommunications of the future

The rapid expansion of oil portion of this data is getting stranded igh-speed, fber optic subma- developments, in addition to retroftting in the feld and not getting distributed rine communications systems brown felds.

and gas telecommunications

H effectively back to the shore. This is the are critical infrastructure to He stresses the reliability of the sys- systems in order to facilitate the critical infrastructure gap that subsea facilitate the digital oilfeld of the future, tems. “We design these networks with fber optic cables that connect to offshore says Mike Constable, CEO of Huawei 99.99996% reliability.” Subsea fber optic development digital oilfelds in platforms eliminates. Marine Networks, a turnkey submarine networks are not affected by atmospheric increasingly remote locations, “Broadband data communications cable system supplier, and a joint venture or climatic conditions. Bringing fber enhance safety, and maximize is rapidly emerging as the single most with Global Marine Systems, at the Oil & to the platforms eliminates the digital reliable technology to support the digital Gas Telecommunications conference in divide between onshore and offshore. data use, was the theme of

London. felds of today and certainly of the a conference on oil and gas

OPEX reductions “The oil majors and feld develop- future,” Constable says. The drivers are similar to the global drivers of internet ers recognize that it is not just oil or gas There are OPEX reductions from remote telecommunications organized connectivity. Effciencies, reduction of fowing from their reservoirs. It is data,” monitoring. One feld developer indi- by SMi Group in London. cost, proftability – all of these ele- he says. An increasing amount of data is cated that they had reduced their head

Meg Chesshyre reports.

ments are critical to the exploration of created, tracked and analyzed in order to count offshore by about 25% once they today. Increasingly feld developers are optimize feld operations in one way or had fber to platforms, a signifcant OPEX incorporating fber-based infra-struc- another. Intelligent devices are capturing saving, and a health and safety beneft ture into their planning for new feld vast amounts of data, but a signifcant there as well.

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