SMi's 6th annual Oil & Gas Telecommunications

1. Oil and Gas
Telecommunications
SMi present their sixth annual conference on…
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Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st March 2013
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London
KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Murray McLaren, Field Telecomms Manager Ian D. Theophilus, Global I.S. Infrastructure
and OPS Manager CNSFTC, BP Operations Manager, Tullow Oil
Andrew Mabian, Head Of Production Fawaz Al-Khudhairy, Senior IT &
Operations, Systems and Business Communications Representative for King
Improvements / SmartFields Project Abdullah Petroleum Studies & Research
Manager, Shell/Salym Petroleum Center, Saudi Aramco
Torbjørn Kristiansen, Leading Advisor, Ketil Moe, Executive Officer, 330 Squadron,
Upstream Telecoms, Statoil Royal Norwegian Air Force
Philip Jones, Information Systems Security Jan Robert Moen, Telecommunications
Officer, GDF SUEZ E&P Advisor, Statoil
David A. Barker, Senior IT Business Specialist, Frank Smiddy, Senior C & I Design Engineer,
Field Telecommunications, Marathon Oil Bord Gáis
Andrew Derby, Telecoms Team Leader, Sadie Creese, Professor of Cybersecurity,
ABB UK Oil & Gas University of Oxford
Petros Theodorakis, Information & John Williams, Director, Geospatial Data
Communications Technology Director, DESFA Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
www.oilandgastelecomms.com
KEY BENEFITS OF ATTENDING:
• Overcome telecommunication challenges in harsh environments and remote locations
PLUS TWO INTERACTIVE PRE–CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
• Improve remote monitoring and control systems
Sponsored by
• Integrate broadband and remote sensing into digital oil and gas fields
• Track assets in dangerous environments with wireless and satellite technologies
• Improve communications infrastructure and network security for onshore and offshore
operations
B: Safety and Protection in the Fifth Domain; Cyberspace and
Tuesday 19th March 2013, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London
A: Delivering Value on the Global WAN Critical Infrastructure Security
Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms Tim Watson, Director, Cyber Security Centre, De Montfort University and
Colin Williams, Visiting Lecturer, Cyber Security Centre, De Montfort University
8.30am-1.00pm
1.30pm-5.30pm
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2. Oil and Gas Telecommunications
Day One I Wednesday 20th March 2013 www.oilandgas
8.30 Registration & Coffee 1.50 Considerations for WiMAX networks
• O&G needs
9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks • WiMax, conceptually, is a great idea
Bill Green, Account Director, Hermes Datacomms • WiMax challenges in real-world deployments
• Marathon today
9.10 Realising the evolving communication needs of the oil and David A. Barker, Senior IT Business Specialist, Field
gas industry Telecommunications, Marathon Oil
• Today’s technology drivers for resilient offshore
telecommunications SATELLITE AND ASSOCIATED TECHNOLOGIES
• Typical communications systems currently in use
• The ideal telecommunications model to provide seamless 2.30 Progress in oil & gas vertical telecommunications
offshore telecommunications • Using satellite and associated technologies to connect
Murray McLaren, Field Telecomms Manager and OPS remote locations; case studies from Ghana and Uganda,
Manager CNSFTC, BP
onshore and offshore
• The importance of multiple telecommunications channels
9.50 Getting it right first time
to support a 24/7 operation
• Getting the correct concept – using a predetermined model
• Optimising the design – using a structured HAZID study • Responding to alternative telecommunications channels in
• Lessons learned from Piper – What went wrong with the previously unconnected locations
comms? • A challenge to the network operators in terms of value
• Lessons learned from BP Audit – you think it is OK until you Ian D. Theophilus, Global I.S. Infrastructure Operations
dig deeper Manager, Tullow Oil
• Deepwater Horizon – who was in charge where did the
communication break down? 3.10 Afternoon Tea
Frank Crawley, Honorary Research Fellow, University of
Strathclyde 3.50 Managing DESFA’s ICT
• A strategy for installing fibre optic cable
10.30 Morning Coffee • Current map of information technology
• Current map of communications technology
INTEGRATING TETRA, BROADBAND AND WiMAX • Future communications strategy
Petros Theodorakis, Information & Communications
10.50 Telecom system integration - the route ahead Technology Director, DESFA
• New for old technology
• Front-end monitoring and control 4.30 Gas pipeline monitoring: moving from analogue
• Combining telecom monitoring with automation to wireless
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Andrew Derby, Telecoms Team Leader, ABB UK Oil & Gas • Utilising a network of wireless pressure and temperature
transmitters
11.30 TETRA broadband communications to meet today’s evolving • 24-hour operation involving constant monitoring through
needs SCADA systems
• Competing or complementary services • Providing redundant communication paths and better
• The use of these services within the oil & gas industry reliability than direct, line-of-sight communications
• Hybrid solutions Frank Smiddy, Senior C & I Design Engineer, Bord Gáis
Fawaz Al-Khudhairy, Senior IT & Communications
Representative for King Abdullah Petroleum Studies &
Register online at www.oilandgastelecomms.com • Alternatively fax your registration
5.10 myTrustedCloud: trust and cloud computing
Research Center, Saudi Aramco
• The security limitations of cloud computing with specific
12.10 Networking Lunch focus on their implications for business uptake
• Case study : The UK and EU energy industry. The security-
1.10 Reliable offshore broadband telecommunication infrastructure critical requirements of this industry and the importance of
• Technical requirements data provenance verification
• Combination of technologies (fibre optic cable, radio link, • Integration of trusted computing technologies into cloud
satellite) computing. A prototype infrastructure showing how trusted
• How we have succeeded- cooperation between operating data and computing provenance has been implemented into
companies on the Norwegian Continental Shelf publicly available cloud computing platforms (Eucalyptus
• Experience with offshore broadband telecommunication and OpenStack)
infrastructure Matteo Turilli, Senior Research Associate, Oxford e-Research
CASE STUDY
Torbjørn Kristiansen, Leading Advisor, Upstream Telecoms, Centre, University of Oxford
Statoil
Jan Robert Moen, Telecommunications Advisor, Statoil 5.50 Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Sponsored by
CASE STUDY
SPONSORSHIP AND EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES
SMi offer sponsorship, exhibition, advertising and
branding packages, uniquely tailored to complement your
ABB is a highly qualified telecommunication solutions company's marketing strategy. Should you wish to join
provider, specialising in turnkey projects for the oil and gas the increasing number of companies benefiting from
industry. Including network systems, internal and external promoting their business at our conferences please call:
communication, safety and security systems; CCTV, access Jules Omura, SMi Sponsorship on
control for both offshore and onshore installations. ABB +44 (0)20 7827 6018 or email: jomura@smi-online.co.uk
also provide integration with automation, safety and
electrical systems plus lifecycle support services. More Want to know how to get involved? Interested in
information can be found at www.abb.co.uk/oilandgas promoting your services to this market?
Contact Kiran Sharma,
SMi Marketing on +44 (0)20 7827 6050 or email
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ksharma@smi-online.co.uk

3. telecomms.com Day Two I Thursday 21st March 2013
8.30 Registration & Coffee 1.30 Medevac helicopter service in the northern areas
• Introduction to 330 Squadron (organisation, mission,
9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks operations area)
Bill Green, Account Director, Hermes Datacomms • Cooperation with other units
• Means of communication
9.10 Approaches to satellite networking: a critical evaluation of • Necessity of radio systems when liaising with other
impact on capacity and quality of service emergency services
• Delivering large communication capacity with limited • Challenges with satellite communications
spectrum: How well are we doing in satellite communications • Future integration of TETRA into communications
and how much better can we do? infrastructure
• Quality of service considerations in multimedia Ketil Moe, Executive Officer, 330 Squadron, Royal Norwegian
communication networks Air Force
• Link characteristics of geostationary and non-geostationary
satellite orbits and impact on system architecture COMMUNICATION NETWORK VULNERABILITIES
• Transparent versus onboard processing transponders, and
global versus narrow spot beam technologies 2.10 Current cybersecurity threats
• Case studies of the Inmarsat, Iridium, Globalstar and other • Understanding the vulnerabilities of global computer networks
approaches in industry • Simulating cyber or physical attack scenarios
Ifiok Otung, Professor of Satellite Communications, • Network and software performance modeling after an attack
University of Glamorgan • Applications to information synchronisation and availability
across global organisations
OPERATIONS IN HARSH AND AND REMOTE LOCATIONS John Williams, Director, Geospatial Data Center and Professor
of Information Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of
9.50 Delivering communications in extreme environments Technology
• Hermes introduction
• Global coverage 2.50 IT security on a greenfield offshore development
• Our marketplace and challenges • Why is InfoSec important to GDF SUEZ
• Technologies in use • Approaches & activity set
• Case studies • Self-assessment and benchmarking
Bill Green, Account Director, Hermes Datacomms
• The challenges
Philip Jones, Information Systems Security Officer,
10.30 Morning Coffee
GDF SUEZ E&P
CASE STUDY
10.50 The reality and tangible benefits of continuous
field optimisation in Western Siberia 3.30 Afternoon Tea
• Introduction and Salym fields overview
• Salym’s ‘Smart Fields’ concept and deployment phasing 3.50 Defending against APTs
• Project impact and results achieved in Salym fields • Why the APT presents such a significant challenge
• Next steps and way forward – “sustain and maximise the • Current defence options
• Limitations and challenges
OPENING ADDRESS
benefits”
Andrew Mabian, Head Of Production Operations, Systems and • Cutting edge thinking and future solutions
Business Improvements / SmartFields Project Manager, Sadie Creese, Professor of Cybersecurity, University of Oxford
Shell/Salym Petroleum
4.30 Safety and protection in the fifth domain; cyberspace and
11.30 Managing telecoms data at high altitudes- safety at sea in critical infrastructure security
Norwegian arctic waters • Cyberspace is now the fifth domain of human existence with
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• Co-operation on aeronautical and maritime search and rescue full equivalence to land, sea, air and space
(SAR) in the Arctic • Society has become functionally, if not existentially, dependant
• Communication, surveillance and monitoring upon cyberspace, and cyberspace is transforming every aspect
• Use of sensors on persons and equipment for monitoring of the human condition
people and equipment in advanced and dangerous work • Cyberspace has become both a critical infrastructure in its
operations own right and the infrastructure upon which all of the others
• Infrastructure - traffic separation schemes and safe corridors depend
in areas with no or limited access to electronic navigational • There is no meaningful separation between industrial control
charts systems and any other facet of cyberspace. Any attempt to
• Seasonal and geographical optimized use of SAR resources manage elements as though there were, will fail
based on dynamic risk assessments, improved infrastructure • Simultaneously, cyberspace provides both these challenges
for communication and differential global navigation satellite and the means to address them
CASE STUDY
systems Colin Williams, Visiting Lecturer, Cyber Security Centre,
Beate Kvamstad, Research Scientist, Marintek/SINTEF De Montfort University
12.10 Networking Lunch 5.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
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publishers

4. Delivering Value on the
Global WAN
HALF DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Tuesday 19th March, 2013
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London
8.30am-1.00pm
In association with
Workshop Overview:
The workshop will cover the commercial and technical
aspects of provision of managed services on a global
basis. The Oil & Gas sector is increasingly moving to a
centralised data centre model and requires reliable
communications with a consistent SLA across all sites.
The workshop will show demonstrations of latest
technology and service management tools as well as
networking and discussions sessions.
Who should attend:
C-level personnel and senior IT managers. Cost
savings and resource to manage your global WAN are
increasingly on the agenda from not only the CFO but
the CIO and IT Management team. Find out how to
optimize costs and resource whilst retaining control
evidenced by current case studies.
Timetable:
8:30 Registration & Coffee
9:00 Chairman's Opening Remarks - Introductions
9:15 Introduction to Hermes Datacomms
9:30 Managed Network Services Overview –
Intelligent Network Outsourcing
10:00 Managing a Global Network
• Organisation considerations
• Geographical Planning
• Who’s IP is it anyway?
- Responsibilities of customer and provider
• How much do you outsource to gain maximum
benefit?
10:30 Morning Coffee
11:00 Technologies to support a Global Network
• 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
12:00 Discussion Forum – Current Issues and Shared
Learning
1:00 End of workshop and private consultations
with attendees
About your workshop leader:
Bill Green has worked in the International
communications arena for over 14 years,
including generating over £100M of sales for
BT. Bill currently serves as Global Account
Director at Hermes Datacomms, where he
manages the Intelligent Network Outsource
proposition, providing global communications networks
for oil & gas companies in both 'business as usual' and
hostile and challenging environments.
About Hermes:
Hermes is a British company owned by its directors
and backed by private equity with over 20 years of
experience providing high quality, reliable and efficient
communications to the oil & gas industry, particularly
in difficult and challenging locations. Hermes have a
strong regional presence in the Middle East, Americas,
Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, Russia and Central Asia
across all communication technologies.

5. B: Safety and Protection in the
Fifth Domain; Cyberspace and
Critical Infrastructure Security
HALF DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Tuesday 19th March, 2013
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London
1.30pm-5.30pm
In association with
Workshop Overview:
The cyber domain has added an entirely new set of
dimensions to the patterns of interconnection and
interdependence that we analysed and organised for at the
turn of the last century. It has changed the actuality of, if
not yet our thinking about, our critical infrastructures. This
workshop explores the implications of cyberspace as a
matrix of interconnectivity that encompasses industrial
control systems including SCADA.
By attending this workshop, you will:
• Gain fresh insights in to the origins and nature of
cyberspace.
• Develop an understanding of the consequences of
conceptualising cyberspace as the fifth domain of
human existence.
• Explore the implications of cyberspace as a matrix
of interconnections that encompasses Industrial
Control Systems including SCADA and to develop
an understanding about what this means for the
security of critical infrastructure.
Timetable:
1.30 Registration and Coffee
2.00 Chairmen’s opening remarks
2.10 The origins of cyberspace in mind and matter.
• The ideas that created cyberspace
• The machines that created cyberspace
2.40 The internet of things
• When the virtual becomes real
• The myth of the discreet system
3.10 The great interconnectedness of everything
• The world after CodeRed
• The end of the hierarchical network
3.40 Afternoon tea
4.00 The imminent singularity
• The robots are coming
• And they can think
4.30 "Tea, Earl Grey, hot"
• Printing reality
• The economic and social transformations of
corporeal printing
5.00 Securing the fifth domain
• Cyberspace as the fifth domain of human existence
• Harnessing complexity and interconnection to
achieve safety and protection in the fifth domain
5.30 End of workshop and private consultations
with attendees
About your workshop leaders:
Dr Tim Watson is the Director of the Cyber Security
Centre at De Montfort University. With more than
twenty years' experience in the computing industry
and in academia, he has been involved with a wide
range of computer systems on several high-profile
projects and has acted as a consultant for some of
the largest telecoms, power and oil companies. He
has also designed, produced and delivered a number of courses
on cyber security for a variety of public and private-sector
organisations.
Colin Williams, Director of SBL and a Visiting
Lecturer in the Cyber Security Centre at De Montfort
University. Colin regularly speaks, consults and writes
on matters to do with Information Assurance, cyber
About The Cyber Security Centre (CSC):
security, business development and enterprise level
software procurement, to public sector audiences and
clients at home and abroad.
The Cyber Security Centre (CSC) is a multidisciplinary group of
academics and industry experts who focus on a wide variety of
cyber protection issues. The Centre's mission is to provide the
full benefits to all of a safe, secure and resilient cyberspace.
The CSC combines a thorough understanding of the real-world
digital environment with deep insights into its underlying
foundations. From the subtle, technical aspects of network
security and live forensics through to the intricate interplay
between economics, psychology, policies and practice, the CSC
combines expertise across disciplines to produce
transformational solutions to hard problems.

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