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DAY ONE
0830 Registration & Networking Refreshments
0910 Introduction & Welcome from the Conference Chair
Martin Jarrold, Chief of International Programme Development, GVF
0915 Session 1
Application & Technology Dynamics: From SCADA to Broadband Data Networking – An Overview
This overview will provide an introduction to the two-day programme, with an appraisal of the development of digital applications that are central to the mission-critical requirements of the oil & gas sector, together with analysis of the dynamics of the communications technologies available to support them.
Dr. Harald Stange, Director BU ICT Services, Detecon Al Saudia
Dr Mohamed Elghamry, Chief Executive Officer, EgyptSat
Soheil Mehrabanzad, Assistant Vice President & General Manager, Africa & Middle East, International Division, Hughes Network Systems
Name t.b.c., SIS Egypt Manager, Schlumberger
Luc Temmerman, Marketing Department, Skylogic
1030 Session 2
Communications Infrastructures Alternatives in the US$120+ Barrel Environment: Investing in Future Mission Critical Delivery
This session will offer an analysis of today’s communications product and service environment within which the players in the solutions vendor community compete to satisfy the efficiency and data risk-management needs of the buyers of Digital Oilfield ICT solutions in the E & P environment. As harder to reach oil & gas reserves – increasingly in offshore and deepwater locations – become economically more viable in the context of rising energy demand and higher prices, what lessons from the global Digital Oilfield environment are being cost-effectively applied across the North Africa & Middle East global oil & gas patch?
Guy Adams, Head of Satellite Management Systems, Parallel Ltd
Mohammed A. Al-Jaroudi, Communications Engineer, Saudi Aramco
Name t.b.c., Egypt Manager, Schlumberger
1110 Networking Refreshments
1140 Sponsor Showcase A: Schlumberger
Paul Khayat, Global Marketing Manager, Global Connectivity Services, Schlumberger
1200 Session 3
Enablers of the 21st Century ‘Digital Oilfield’
What is meant by the phrase “enabling the digital oilfield”? Is there universal agreement on a shared definition? This root-and-branch discussion will set out a full explanation of all that the phrase can encompass including definitions of requirements for systems resilience and data security.
Iñigo López, Product Manager, UDcast
Alistair Grove White, Technology Manager, Global Connectivity Services, Schlumberger
1240 Special Feature Presentation: Saudi Aramco
Broadband VSAT Services - New Perspectives for Oil and Gas Applications
Mohammed A. Al-Jaroudi, Communications Engineer, Saudi Aramco
1320 Sponsor Showcase B: Advantech Satellite Networks
Jack Buechler, Sales Director, EMEA, Advantech Satellite Networks
1340 Networking Lunch
1500 Session 4
Regulatory Open Forum on the Oil & Gas Wireless World
In today’s oil & gas environment voice, data and many higher bandwidth applications must flow freely between remote sites and other points in company regional and global networks in order to facilitate important and timely decisions. Obstacles to effective cross-border communications can only compromise the cost-effectiveness of operational and corporate procedures. This Open Forum session will also offer an analysis of the impact on the regional oil & gas sector of potential spectrum allocation conflicts between satellite and terrestrial broadband wireless.
Moderator: Martin Jarrold, Chief of International Programme Development, GVF
Guest Contributor: Mohamed Abdalla, Senior Adviser, Arab Regional Office, ITU
Guest Contributor: Salah El-Wardany, Head of Radio Spectrum Sector, National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA)
Open Forum Interaction with Assembled Delegates
1530 Sponsor Showcase C: Hughes
Soheil Mehrabanzad, Assistant Vice President & General Manager, Africa & Middle East, International Division, Hughes Network Systems
1550 Networking Refreshments
1620 Session 5
Integrated Solutions from the First to the Last Mile
ICT solutions buyers in the oil & gas sector are interested in the applications-supporting cost-effectiveness of the solutions they need rather than in the detail of the technology platforms that contribute to the solution. They tend to be technology agnostic. Yet, the physical circumstances of oil & gas resource exploitation, and the industry requirement to link multiple sites – for example, inland and offshore, well-head and site office, or Collaborative Visualisation Environment and corporate HQ – necessitate that companies in the sector buy wide area networking services which utilise combinations of terrestrial and satellite platforms. Communications industry operators and service providers have to ensure that their offerings to the oil & gas sector continue to provide multi-platform, multiple technology, integrated, solutions to meet the complex and extensive voice, data, and video applications needs of this vertical environment. In this session we will investigate and explain how this is being achieved around the region now, and how it will be achieved in the future.
Guy Adams, Head of Satellite Management Systems, Parallel Ltd Alistair Grove White, Technology Manager, Global Connectivity Services, Schlumberger
Iñigo López, Product Manager, UDcast
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3rd Annual Conference Oil & Gas Communications: North Africa & the Middle East Grand Hyatt Hotel, Cairo, June 16th & 17th, 2008 |
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