Oil and Gas Communications 2012

The need for oil and gas companies to ensure reliable connectivity to all major human and operational assets is crucial.

Often far removed from infrastructure and security, the Oil and Gas industry works in some of the harshest environments on earth.

Our forthcoming Oil & Gas Communications conference will address the requirements, challenges and emerging communication solutions companies are deploying to mitigate risk and ensure success.

Petros Theodorakis, ICT Director, Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator (DESFA) S.A.

Mobile communications in a natural gas transmission company

Jan Hetland, Director Datacomms Systems, Telenor

Emergence of Ka-band satellites and implications for oil & gas satellite communications

Christopher Baugh, President, Northern Sky Research

Bandwidth Growth in the Oil Patch: Pipelines to Deepwater Platforms

Carlos Nalda, Of Counsel, Squire Sanders

Drilling for Licenses: Regulatory Trends and their Impact on Communications Solutions

Stig Peterson, Research Scientist - Communication Systems, SINTEF ICT

Process monitoring, control and safety with wireless instrumentation

Ifiok Otung, Principal Lecturer, University of Glamorgan

Bandwidth Efficiency: Maximising your return on spectrum investment

Nina Beebe, Director Emerging Markets, Access Partnership

Regulatory risk in nascent markets: new oil, improved regulators

Aarti Holla, Secretary General, European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA)

From SCADA to Broadband: How Satellite Communications creates efficiencies for the O&G sector

Bill Green, Managing Director, Seahorse Solutions

From Tsunami to Oil Field – Pioneering Communications in Oil & Gas

Ahmed M. Alomary, Commissioner, Communications and Media Commission Iraq

Oil and Gas Sector against Regulation

Nathan Egereonu, Country Manager – UK, Nigeria LNG

Evolution of networking communications in the oil and gas industry

Hassan S. Karim, Communications Engineer, Saudi Aramco

VSAT-based Threat vectors for Oil & Gas

Laurent Vandebrouck, Carrier Strategy and Business Development, Eutelsat

Dennis Vause, Infrastructure Operations Manager, Tullow Oil

Onshore Field Communications

Hugh McIntyre, Service Delivery Manager, Wood Group PSN

Managing relationships in Oil and Gas

Dimitri Zafiriadis, Sales Director - Northern Europe, iDirect

Smart Meter Communications and SCADA for AMI backhaul and O&G production sites

· Chief Information Officer

· Chief Technology Officer

· Network Manager

· Head of Communications

· Head of Information Systems

· Systems Manager

· IT Manager

· IT Infrastructure Manager

· Vertically integrated NOCs

· Oil majors

· Independents

· Refineries

· Power generation and transmission companies

· Utility companies

· Ship-owners and Shipbrokers

· Gas and LNG producers

· Pipeline Companies

· Petroleum Retail companies

· Oil Traders

· Petrochemical and Feedstock companies

· Port Authorities involved in Emergency Response Management