Oil & Gas connectivity needs nowadays:
The role of satellites.
The Oil & Gas industry significantly benefits from satellite connectivity, especially given its operations in remote and challenging environments. Here are some key reasons why satellite connectivity is essential:
- Remote Operations: Many oil and gas operations are located in areas where terrestrial network infrastructure is unavailable, so only satellite connectivity can ensures continuous communication and data transfer from these remote sites.
- High Speed Real-Time Data Exchange: Satellite networks enable the transmission of critical data from drilling sites to onshore offices. This includes monitoring equipment, detecting leaks, and managing pressure and temperature, which are vital for operational efficiency and safety as well as the monitoring of environmental conditions and helps in the early detection of potential hazards, thereby enhancing safety measures. But the welfare connectivity needs for the crew is more and more important: they must be able to use the internet like at home to contact their family, watch movies and play games.
- Mobility and Flexibility: Satellite solutions like Starlink provide high-speed, reliable connectivity for both stationery and mobile operations, ensuring that even supply barges and temporary sites remain connected.
- Cost Efficiency: With advancements in satellite technology, the cost of high-throughput GEO and LEO satellites has deeply decreased, making them a cost-effective solution for the Oil & Gas industry.
- Very High availability: This can be achieved thanks to multiple satellite redundancies (LEO + GEO)
- Enhanced Cybersecurity: Secure satellite networks help protect sensitive data and infrastructure from cyber threats, which is increasingly important as industry adopts more digital technologies in order to reduce their cost of operations.
- Low latency: this criterion is gaining more and more importance especially for real time critical operations
In conclusion, satellite connectivity plays a crucial role in ensuring the Oil & Gas industry can operate efficiently, safely, and sustainably.
In this context, neXat developed very recently with a tier 1 partner of Starlink the most appropriate solution called “LEO FIBER IN THE SKY” for backhauling and Oil & Gas remote sites:
- Fiber like symmetrical high speed from 200/200 Mbps up to 1/1 Gbps guaranteed.
- No data cap.
- Low latency from 25ms to 80ms (depending to local conditions)
- Available wherever Starlink is authorized.
- Very high service availability: 99.9%
- Highly secured: VPN & Encryption
- Layer 2 or 3 available.
- 24/7 Support.
- Incredibly low price.
