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

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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

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PLUS AN INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP • TUESDAY 24TH MARCH 2015

Marriott Hotel Regents Park, London, 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

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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

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