SMi Group's Oil & Gas Telecommunications 2015 conference & exhibition returns for its 8th year next march in London

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SMi presents its 8th Annual Conference on...
Marriott Hotel Regents Park, London, UK
PLUS AN INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP • TUESDAY 24TH MARCH 2015
Delivering the WAN – A Partnership Approach
Workshop Leader: Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms
8.30am - 1.00pm
25 - 26
MARCH
2015
Oil and Gas
Telecommunications
KEY TOPIC INSIGHTS:
• Explore practical issues facing oil and gas
operators
• Understand major changes in licensing and
regulation affecting oil and gas
telecommunications
• Learn how advances in technology will affect
operation
• Hear industry case studies from Delonex
Energy, Technip and Saudi Aramco
CONFERENCE CHAIR:
• Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms
KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
• Ian Theophilus, Field Telecom Functional Excellence
Manager, Shell
• Gary Pidcock, Director Engineering & Operations, Delonex
Energy
• Fawaz Al-Khudhairy, Wireless Engineering Group, Saudi
Aramco
• 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
Sponsored by
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Providing you with a comprehensive insight into the
latest telecommunication technologies and case studies

2. Oil and Gas Telecommunications 2015
Day One | Wednesday 25th March 2015 www.oilandgas
PANEL DISCUSSION
Register online at: www.oilandgastelecomms.com •
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Straxia
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expertise they need to be confident in their infrastructure, whether in the corporate hub or
in some of the world’s most challenging environments. Our technical and project
management teams have many years of hands-on experience in delivering benefits to our
clients, with expertise that spans normal IT boundaries. www.straxia.co.uk
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’ view
Albert Aspden, Chief Telecoms Engineer, Kentz
3.00 Afternoon Tea
3.30 From GEO to LEO/MEO: Benefits of Lower Orbits Satellite
Communications 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, University
of 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/
outsourced
Nick Courtney-Jones, Independent Oil & Gas
Telecommunications Advisor, NCJ Consulting Ltd
Ian Theophilus, Field Telecom Functional Excellence
Manager, Shell
4.50 Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
5.00 Drinks Reception sponsored by Straxia

3. stelecomms.com Day Two | Thursday 26th March 2015
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Supported by
8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
Bill 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 markets
Brendan O'Mahony, Director, Market Access and
Licensing, Access Partnership
Network Vulnerabilities
9.50 Exploring the Legal Aspects of Onshore and Offshore
Telecommunications
• Latest developments around infrastructure (including
ownership, financing, development and access)
• Intellectual property
• Data transfer
Bob Ruddiman, Partner - Head of Energy & Natural
Resources, Pinsent Masons
10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00 Keeping Our Employees Out of Harm’s Way in
Cyberspace
• 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 gambling
and 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 cyberspace
Martin Smith, Chairman, The Security Awareness Special
Interest Group
Industry Case Studies: Streamlining Communications
Operations and Onshore Telecoms Deployement
11.40 Delonex Case Study: Real Time Communications for Oil
and Gas Exploration Operations
• Exploration operations & control systems
• Data streams, users and communication levels
• Security and emergency Communications
• Personnel requirements
Gary 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

4. HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Tuesday 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 overview
Hermes will show how a partnership approach to
working with drillers, operators and EPCs delivers
a higher SLA and cost efficiencies by
understanding the end user requirements rather
than selling bandwidth.
Through practical demonstrations and case
studies, Hermes will explain how this approach
has benefited both the end user and the IS dept.
Agenda
09.00 Introductions
09.15 Challenges in Oil & Gas, Working in
Partnership – presentation on recent
experience with operators, drillers and EPC
09.45 Technologies for improving and
delivering communications – practical
demonstrations of technologies for
remote sites and optimisation
10.45 Coffee Break
11.15 Delivering value and service
excellence – practical demonstrations
of service management tools
12.15 Open Discussion Forum – addressing
current challenges and issues
13.00 Close
About the workshop host
Bill Green has worked in the International
communications arena for over 15 years,
supporting over £100M of sales for BT and
currently serving as Global Account
Director in Hermes Datacomms, an
international company focussed solely on global
communications for oil & gas.
Bill joined BT in 1999. Bill joined the global arm of the
company as Project Director managing teams from
both the UK and USA to deliver high value projects to
multi-national companies globally. Always close to
the customer, Bill eventually crossed over to the dark
side and became Global Account Director in the
sales team.
Bill took a break from sales briefly in 2004 to lead
a team of engineers to Indonesia following the
catastrophic tsunami which devastated the
region. The net result was the recovery of
communications for over 250,000 people.
Bill left BT in Sep 2010 and set up Seahorse
Consultancy Solutions but was quickly tempted
back onto the payroll with Hermes Datacomms
with whom he had worked in partnership with
throughout his BT career. Bill manages the
Intelligent Network Outsource proposition,
providing global communications networks for oil
& gas companies in both ‘business as usual’ and
hostile and challenging environments.
Find out more at www.hermes.uk.com

5. Energy and Utilities
Forward Planner
2014 - 2015
NOVEMBER 2014
Oil & Gas Cyber Security
24-25 November 2014
London, UK
Project Financing in Oil & Gas
24-25 November 2014
London, UK
FEBRUARY 2015
E&P Information & Data Management
3-4 February 2015
London, UK
Floating LNG
18-19 February 2015
London, UK
Telematics Usage Based Insurance
18-19 February 2015
London, UK
MARCH 2015
Project Financing in Oil and Gas
North America
9-10 March 2015,
USA
European Smart Grid Cyber Security
9-10 March 2015
London, UK
Gas to Liquids North America
11-12 March 2015,
USA
Oil and Gas Telecommunications
25-26 March 2015
London, UK
For more information please visit
www.smi-online.co.uk
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OPPORTUNITIES
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strategy.
Should you wish to join the increasing number of
companies benefiting from sponsoring our
conferences please call: Alia Malick, SMi
Sponsorship on +44 (0)20 7827 6168 or email:
amalick@smi-online.co.uk

6. OIL AND GAS TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Conference: Wednesday 25th & Thursday 26th March 2015, Marriott Hotel Regents Park, London, UK Workshop: Tuesday 24th March 2015, London
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