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Oil & Gas Telecommunications
19 March - 20 March 2014
Oil & Gas Telecommunications

SAE Media Group’s Oil & Gas Telecommunications conference will tackle the challenges the oil and gas sector faces in some of the most dangerous, harsh, and remote environments on earth requiring a range of means to communicate with and draw information from platforms and land-based sites of all kinds from across the world. 

Far removed from infrastructure, support teams and in extreme temperatures and unpredictable weather conditions, secure, scalable and, most importantly, reliable communications, are vital for the success of all involved.

Robust communication requires personnel to be in touch with senior and expert decision makers at another (central) location to carry out instructions given to them based on data supplied to decision makers from a variety of sources including equipment, seiSAE Media Groupc data, telemetry information, and security applications.

SAE Media Group's seventh annual conference focuses on all aspects of your telecommunication needs, from initial exploration through to extraction, transport and processes covering the following topics:

• How is the industry managing the increasing complexity and volume of data being tranSAE Media Grouptted 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
• Deploying telecommunications during the construction phase of a new production site or platform
• Securing and getting data from A to B across your organisation - Optimising the network and access control
Real-time machine condition monitoring for oil and gas production sites
• Determining the best use for KA band – Is it destined to be restricted to primary communication in Europe?
03B update – Examining the benefits of low orbit satellite for oil and gas industry communications
High throughput VSAT – Exploring the benefits of improved bandwidth and dealing with its deployment
• Where does satellite fit in an overall oil and gas exploration and production telecoms strategy?
• What part will microwave technology play in accelerating the realisation of remotely operated offshore platforms?
• Implementing a cybersecurity strategy that benefits the delivery of exploration and production operations and business requirements
• Security and on-site communications - deploying cctv security systems and physical access control systems



 

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

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. 

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9:00

Workshop Leader's Opening Remarks

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9:10

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.

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9:30

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?

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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.

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10:30

Morning Coffee

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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).

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10:45

Morning Coffee

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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

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12:15

Networking Lunch

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12:15

Discussion forum – current Issues and shared 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.

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13:00

End of Workshop

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13:15

Satellites, services & systems - Satcom frequency bands & characteristics

L-, C-, Ku-, Ka-band. Propagation aspects, availability, grade-of-service. 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.

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14:45

Afternoon Tea

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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.

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16:30

End of Workshop

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Bill Green

Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms

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9:10

The power of cyber resilience – managing risk and recovering from breaches

Alan Calder

Alan Calder, CEO, IT Governance Ltd

 

• There have been several attacks targeted at oil and gas firms in the last two years
• Good risk-mitigation strategies can reduce cyber risk, but they cannot eliminate cyber attacks
• Oil and gas companies need to assume a breach will happen and prepare accordingly
• An organisation’s ability to respond to and recover from security breaches – its cyber-resilience – is fundamental to its risk management strategy
• Information security standards are an important element in building a strong, resilient information and communication infrastructure
• This session will examine cyber risk in the oil and gas sector, the pervasiveness of cyber-incidents and the key steps in building a cyber-resilience strategy

 

 

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9:50

Lubricating the moving parts - Defining tomorrow’s (oil)fieldcloud

Matthew  Smith

Matthew Smith, Founder & Principal Consultant, Fieldcloud

 

•From sensor to engineer desktop (and back again)
•Current situation - a veritable cast of thousands, will your automation system and support organization scale to fit the oncoming data deluge?
•Information security, rights management, traceability and business relationships
•The promise of efficient production and reservoir optimisation workflows
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10:30

Morning Coffee

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10:50

High-speed, fibre-optic submarine communications systems; critical infrastructure to facilitate the digital oil fields of the future

Mike Constable

Mike Constable, Corporate Development Director, Global Marine Cable Systems Pte Ltd

·         How does this state-of-the-art-technology benefit the oil and gas community?
·         Challenges, risks, and rewards
·         An overview of system design and implementation  
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11:30

Management and technology in cyber security - Delivering results more cost effectively in combination with people management

Petros  Theodorakis

Petros Theodorakis, ICT Director , DESFA

 

  • 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?
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    12:10

    Networking Lunch

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    Frontier communication challenges

    Berry Mulder

    Berry Mulder, Global Program Leader Wireless Technology for Process Facilities, Shell

    ·         Robotics: driving, flying, swimming, climbing. Where are they and how do we control them?
    ·         Arctic & remote: how to create long-distance high-bandwidth communication to extreme locations
    ·         Collaboration & commercialisation: when to go from spot-solutions to generic services 
    ·         Sensor networks: a hundred sensors is OK, a thousand is a challenge, how about communicating with a million?
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    Panel discussion: The role of telecommunications in delivering the digital oil/gas field

    ·         What are the major obstacles to implementing the digital oil/gas field?
    ·         How is the industry managing the increasing complexity and volume of data being transmitted across organisations?
    ·         Global MPLS or internet network?

    Berry Mulder

    Berry Mulder, Global Program Leader Wireless Technology for Process Facilities, Shell

    Bill Green

    Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms

    Nick Courtney-Jones

    Nick Courtney-Jones, Telecommunications Specialist, Tullow Oil

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    14:50

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:10

    Deploying telecommunications in Libya for onshore drilling

    Richard  Brown

    Richard Brown, Managing Director, Straxia

     

    ·         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
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    15:50

    Keeping the users your focus - Optimising your network strategy

    Bill Green

    Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms

     

    ·         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
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    16:30

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks

    Bill Green

    Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms

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    16:35

    Drinks Reception hosted by Global Marine Systems

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    18:00

    Close of Day One

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Bill Green

    Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms

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    9:10

    Cybersecurity - back to basics

    Martin Smith

    Martin Smith, Chairman, The Security Company (International) Limited

     

     

    ·         Current myths and legends surrounding cybercrime
    ·         Trust versus online security – know the difference
    ·         Maintaining our privacy online
    ·         Phishing, Pharming and email scams
    ·         The dangers from social engineering
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    9:50

    New advances in wireless real-time sensing and control for high-density networks

    Tim Ensor

    Tim Ensor, Business Development Manager, Wireless Division , Cambridge Consultants Ltd

     

    ·         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.
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    Enabling integrated operation in deep water exploration and production

    Eirik  Nesse

    Eirik Nesse, Vice President, Global Oil & Gas Competence Centre, Ceragon

    ·         Reliable high-capacity, low-latency communication to offshore vessels and rigs
    ·         Integrated voice, video, and data network for operations and crew welfare
    ·         Cost effective with no recurring cost
    ·         ATEX certified solutions for safe operation in classified areas
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    Defining the important questions about Ka-band

    Simon Bull

    Simon Bull, Senior Consultant, Comsys

     

    ·         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?
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    12:10

    Networking Lunch

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    Satellite technology update: High-throughput satellite – Exploring the benefits of improved bandwidth and dealing with its deployment

    Paul Febvre

    Paul Febvre, Chief Technology Officer, Satellite Applications Catapult

     

    ·         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
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    Creating a community of users with M2M communications in oil and gas

    Paul Green

    Paul Green, CTO, Arkessa Limited

    ·         Data can be gathered from 1000s of points
    ·         Needs to be used by 100's of people with completely different requirements
    ·         How can we enable a community of users to interact in meaningful ways
    ·         These maybe different organisations with diverse business drivers
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    14:50

    Telecommunication Licensing & Regulation in the Oil & Gas Space

    Brendan O'Mahony

    Brendan O'Mahony, Director, Market Access and Licensing, Access Partnership

     

    ·         What are the key developments in satellite communication regulation?
    ·         What are the key licensing issues and how does it impact on your operations?
    ·         How are regulators interacting with industry for new service offerings?
    ·         How to manage the regulatory environment
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    15:30

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks

    Bill Green

    Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms

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    15:35

    Afternoon Tea

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    16:00

    Close of Conference

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    WHAT IS CPD?

    CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development’. It is essentially a philosophy, which maintains that in order to be effective, learning should be organised and structured. The most common definition is:

    ‘A commitment to structured skills and knowledge enhancement for Personal or Professional competence’

    CPD is a common requirement of individual membership with professional bodies and Institutes. Increasingly, employers also expect their staff to undertake regular CPD activities.

    Undertaken over a period of time, CPD ensures that educational qualifications do not become obsolete, and allows for best practice and professional standards to be upheld.

    CPD can be undertaken through a variety of learning activities including instructor led training courses, seminars and conferences, e:learning modules or structured reading.

    CPD AND PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTES

    There are approximately 470 institutes in the UK across all industry sectors, with a collective membership of circa 4 million professionals, and they all expect their members to undertake CPD.

    For some institutes undertaking CPD is mandatory e.g. accountancy and law, and linked to a licence to practice, for others it’s obligatory. By ensuring that their members undertake CPD, the professional bodies seek to ensure that professional standards, legislative awareness and ethical practices are maintained.

    CPD Schemes often run over the period of a year and the institutes generally provide online tools for their members to record and reflect on their CPD activities.

    TYPICAL CPD SCHEMES AND RECORDING OF CPD (CPD points and hours)

    Professional bodies and Institutes CPD schemes are either structured as ‘Input’ or ‘Output’ based.

    ‘Input’ based schemes list a precise number of CPD hours that individuals must achieve within a given time period. These schemes can also use different ‘currencies’ such as points, merits, units or credits, where an individual must accumulate the number required. These currencies are usually based on time i.e. 1 CPD point = 1 hour of learning.

    ‘Output’ based schemes are learner centred. They require individuals to set learning goals that align to professional competencies, or personal development objectives. These schemes also list different ways to achieve the learning goals e.g. training courses, seminars or e:learning, which enables an individual to complete their CPD through their preferred mode of learning.

    The majority of Input and Output based schemes actively encourage individuals to seek appropriate CPD activities independently.

    As a formal provider of CPD certified activities, SAE Media Group can provide an indication of the learning benefit gained and the typical completion. However, it is ultimately the responsibility of the delegate to evaluate their learning, and record it correctly in line with their professional body’s or employers requirements.

    GLOBAL CPD

    Increasingly, international and emerging markets are ‘professionalising’ their workforces and looking to the UK to benchmark educational standards. The undertaking of CPD is now increasingly expected of any individual employed within today’s global marketplace.

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    We can provide a certificate for all our accredited events. To request a CPD certificate for a conference , workshop, master classes you have attended please email events@saemediagroup.com

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