smi group's 8th annual oil & gas telecommunications 2015
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SMi Group's Oil & Gas Telecommunications 2015 conference & exhibition returns for its 8th year next march in LondonTRANSCRIPT
Delivering the WAN – A Partnership ApproachWorkshop Leader: Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms
8.30am - 1.00pm
25 - 26
MARCH
2015
Oil and GasTelecommunications
KEY TOPIC INSIGHTS:
• Explore practical issues facing oil and gasoperators
• Understand major changes in licensing andregulation affecting oil and gastelecommunications
• Learn how advances in technology will affectoperation
• Hear industry case studies from DelonexEnergy, Technip and Saudi Aramco
SMi presents its 8th Annual Conference on...
REGISTER BY 28TH NOVEMBER AND RECEIVE A £300 DISCOUNTREGISTER BY 30TH JANUARY AND RECEIVE A £100 DISCOUNT
CONFERENCE CHAIR:
• Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms
KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
• Ian Theophilus, Field Telecom Functional ExcellenceManager, Shell
• Gary Pidcock, Director Engineering & Operations, DelonexEnergy
• Fawaz Al-Khudhairy, Wireless Engineering Group, SaudiAramco
• Andy Edge, Telecom & Security Design Engineer, Fluor Limited• Guilliume Turpin, WAN Manager, Technip Group• Dmitry Ayzadulov, Head of IT and Telecom Engineering,
Lukoil Overseas Service B.V.• Albert Aspden, Chief Telecoms Engineer, Kentz• Andrea Vallavanti, ICT Manager, OLT Offshore LNG Toscana
www.oilandgastelecomms.com Register online or fax your registration to +44 (0) 870 9090 712 or call +44 (0) 870 9090 711
PLUS AN INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP • TUESDAY 24TH MARCH 2015
Marriott Hotel Regents Park, London, UK
Sponsored by
@SMiGroupEnergy
Providing you with a comprehensive insight into thelatest telecommunication technologies and case studies
Register online at: www.oilandgastelecomms.com •
Sponsored by
Oil and Gas Telecommunications 2015Day One | Wednesday 25th March 2015 www.oilandgas
StraxiaOur business is infrastructure transformation. We provide our clients with the independentexpertise they need to be confident in their infrastructure, whether in the corporate hub orin some of the world’s most challenging environments. Our technical and projectmanagement teams have many years of hands-on experience in delivering benefits to ourclients, with expertise that spans normal IT boundaries. www.straxia.co.uk
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8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms
OPENING ADDRESS
9.10 Practical Issues Facing Oil and Gas Operators
• Meeting regulatory commitments
• Production control networks and their importance
• Remote communication areas
• Logistics: support and mobalisation issues
Ian Theophilus, Field Telecom Functional Excellence
Manager, Shell
Project Management
9.50 Saudi Aramco: Telecommunications in Oil and Gas
• Mega projects
• New applications and the need for increasing bandwidth
• Typical project challenges
Fawaz Al-Khudhairy, Wireless Engineering Group, Saudi
Aramco
10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00 Case Study: Telecommunications – A Business Enabler
• Global MPLS sourcing
• Hybrid networks
• Application visibility
• New challenges: Cloud services
Guilliume Turpin, WAN Manager, Technip Group
11.40 Strengthen Your Infrastructure
• Taking advantage of your infrastructure
• Integrating field sites with the corporate hub
• Challenges of hosting your local infrastructure
• Facilitating office collaboration
Richard Brown, Managing Director, Straxia
12.20 Networking Lunch
Impact of Technological Advances and Next Generation Communications
1.40 Machine Data. Big Data. Where Do You Point The Firehose• Smart pipes, dumb applications. A tale of BPS vs. MIPS
(part 1) and some lessons learned along the way• When meta data > measurement data. Context, content
challenges as the apps get smarter• Faster pipes, clever applications. A tale of BPS vs. MIPS
(part 2) and some lessons we may learn in the future• How the programmable network changes everything
tomorrow. And what this means to telecom,instrumentation and IT teams in the oilfield…
Matthew Smith, Founder & Principal Consultant, Fieldcloud
2.20 Customers Don’t Always Know What They Want• Optimisation of CCTV for wide area surveillance• Limitation of operator attention span if he/she has to view
too many CCTV feeds• Sit back and relax with a ‘one screen sees all’ viewAlbert Aspden, Chief Telecoms Engineer, Kentz
3.00 Afternoon Tea
3.30 From GEO to LEO/MEO: Benefits of Lower Orbits SatelliteCommunications 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 oil and
gas industry?Ifiok Otung, Professor of Satellite Communication, Universityof South Wales
4.10 Next Generation Communications for the Digital Oil and Gas Field• Collaboration between remote locations
and HQ• Which capabilities should be in house/
outsourcedNick Courtney-Jones, Independent Oil & GasTelecommunications Advisor, NCJ Consulting LtdIan Theophilus, Field Telecom Functional ExcellenceManager, Shell
4.50 Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
5.00 Drinks Reception sponsored by Straxia
Want to know how you can getinvolved?
Interested in promoting yourservices to this market?
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Supported by
Day Two | Thursday 26th March 2015stelecomms.com
8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman's Opening RemarksBill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms
OPENING ADDRESS 9.10 Telecommunication Licencing and Regulation in the Oil
and Gas Space: Update for 2015• What are the key developments in satellite
communication regulation• What are the key licencing 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• Licencing issues in challenging marketsBrendan O'Mahony, Director, Market Access andLicensing, Access Partnership
Network Vulnerabilities
9.50 Exploring the Legal Aspects of Onshore and OffshoreTelecommunications• Latest developments around infrastructure (including
ownership, financing, development and access)• Intellectual property• Data transferBob Ruddiman, Partner - Head of Energy & NaturalResources, Pinsent Masons
10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00 Keeping Our Employees Out of Harm’s Way inCyberspace• Individuals suffering from Internet Addiction Disorder
(IAD) are vulnerable to cyber bullying and grooming,fraud and blackmail and could be targets for criminals
• Compulsions can include cybersex, online gamblingand cyber-relationship addiction
• Online dating is a magnet for organised crime and worse• Phishing attacks continue unabated• The Dark Web is a dangerous place• Organisations should do all they can to keep
employees out of harm’s way in cyberspaceMartin Smith, Chairman, The Security Awareness SpecialInterest Group
Industry Case Studies: Streamlining Communications Operations and Onshore Telecoms Deployement
11.40 Delonex Case Study: Real Time Communications for Oiland Gas Exploration Operations• Exploration operations & control systems• Data streams, users and communication levels• Security and emergency Communications• Personnel requirementsGary Pidcock, Director Engineering & Operations,Delonex Energy
12.20 Networking Lunch
1.40 Lightening the Load – Partnering to Streamline
Communications Operations
• Challenges in Oil & Gas
• How the Partnership Approach can work
• Case Studies
Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes
2.20 Case Study: Radio Link FSRU Toscana
• Radio link project background
• Key challenges
• The role of the outsourcer : Ponti radio PR
• Results
Andrea Vallavanti, ICT Manager, OLT Offshore LNG
Toscana
3.00 Afternoon Tea
3.30 Case Study: An EPC’s Role Successfully Executing
Telecommunication System Design During Brownfield
Projects
• The EPC’s role in a brownfield project
• Reliability and reliance in legacy records
• Maintain or replace?
• Testing and integration
Andy Edge, Telecom & Security Design Engineer, Fluor
Limited
4.10 Case Study: LUKOIL WEST QURNA 2 Project in Iraq
• Project overview
• Project IT and telecom infrastructure
• Challenges and solutions
• Progression and future of WEST QURNA 2
Dmitry Ayzadulov, Head of IT and Telecom Engineering,
Lukoil Overseas Service B.V.
4.50 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPTuesday 24th March 2015
Marriott Hotel Regents Park, London, UK
Delivering the WAN – A Partnership Approach
Presented by Bill Green, Global Account
Director, Hermes Datacomms
Workshop overviewHermes will show how a partnership approach toworking with drillers, operators and EPCs deliversa higher SLA and cost efficiencies byunderstanding the end user requirements ratherthan selling bandwidth.
Through practical demonstrations and casestudies, Hermes will explain how this approachhas benefited both the end user and the IS dept.
Agenda
09.00 Introductions
09.15 Challenges in Oil & Gas, Working inPartnership – presentation on recentexperience with operators, drillers and EPC
09.45 Technologies for improving anddelivering communications – practicaldemonstrations of technologies forremote sites and optimisation
10.45 Coffee Break
11.15 Delivering value and serviceexcellence – practical demonstrationsof service management tools
12.15 Open Discussion Forum – addressingcurrent challenges and issues
13.00 Close
About the workshop host
Bill Green has worked in the Internationalcommunications arena for over 15 years,supporting over £100M of sales for BT andcurrently serving as Global AccountDirector in Hermes Datacomms, an
international company focussed solely on globalcommunications for oil & gas.
Bill joined BT in 1999. Bill joined the global arm of thecompany as Project Director managing teams fromboth the UK and USA to deliver high value projects tomulti-national companies globally. Always close tothe customer, Bill eventually crossed over to the darkside and became Global Account Director in thesales team.
Bill took a break from sales briefly in 2004 to leada team of engineers to Indonesia following thecatastrophic tsunami which devastated theregion. The net result was the recovery ofcommunications for over 250,000 people.
Bill left BT in Sep 2010 and set up SeahorseConsultancy Solutions but was quickly temptedback onto the payroll with Hermes Datacommswith whom he had worked in partnership withthroughout his BT career. Bill manages theIntelligent Network Outsource proposition,providing global communications networks for oil& gas companies in both ‘business as usual’ andhostile and challenging environments.
Find out more at www.hermes.uk.com
NOVEMBER 2014
Oil & Gas Cyber Security24-25 November 2014London, UK
Project Financing in Oil & Gas24-25 November 2014 London, UK
FEBRUARY 2015
E&P Information & Data Management3-4 February 2015London, UK
Floating LNG18-19 February 2015London, UK
Telematics Usage Based Insurance18-19 February 2015London, UK
MARCH 2015
Project Financing in Oil and Gas North America9-10 March 2015, USA
European Smart Grid Cyber Security9-10 March 2015London, UK
Gas to Liquids North America11-12 March 2015, USA
Oil and Gas Telecommunications25-26 March 2015 London, UK
For more information please visit www.smi-online.co.uk
Energy and UtilitiesForward Planner
2014 - 2015
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Should you wish to join the increasing number ofcompanies benefiting from sponsoring ourconferences please call: Alia Malick, SMiSponsorship on +44 (0)20 7827 6168 or email:[email protected]
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