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Chairman, GDS International
Sales and the 'Talent Magnet'
A lot is written about being a ‘Talent Magnet’, either as a company, or as President. It’s all good practice – listen, mentor, reward, provide clear goals and career maps. Good practice for the employer, but what about the employee?24 May 2011
Focus Area: IT & Communications
Enhancing Oilfield Operations through Wireless Technology
Advancement in directional drilling technology has changed the way oil and gas production companies design and manage well locations and associated well site automation. Multiple wells require multiple production tanks. By OleumTech Corporation
Expanding the Limits of Wireless Field Automation
Paul Gregory reveals how wireless field automation can improve efficiency and safety on location.
Best of Both Worlds: WiMAX over VSAT
The unique communication needs of the Oil and Gas industry take technology to its very limits. The need to reach remote and desolated sites allowing both narrowband SCADA applications as well as full broadband connectivity exemplifies this technological challenge. Satellite communication has been used for many years to resolve the distance and location issues presenting a solution which is not cost sensitive to location or distance. However, when a group of sites is spread over a large area and requires multiple connection points, WiMAX technology can be a cost-effective solution. WiMAX is a wireless technology capable of delivering up to 25Mbps to distances as far as 30Km – can be used to connect a multitude of end points with broadband connectivity, allowing a variety of applications in a very cost effective manner. VSAT technology, now capable of delivering 30Mbps downstream bandwidth and 8Mbps upstream, can be used to backhaul WiMAX sites. The combination of WiMAX and VSAT presents a new paradigm where VSAT is used as a backhaul technology to WiMAX sites covering many end points.
Stretching Your Dollar
Cynthia Ramdial of ENCOM explains how mesh networking could transform how information is being delivered.
Wireless Communications in the Oil & Gas Sector
Most of us can appreciate the correlation between knowledge and success. The ability to become well-informed enables us to make stronger decisions. It can then be inferred that increasing the rate in which we receive information will lead to improvements in production. In the Oil and Gas sector, more than ever, we see the urgency of being able to remotely control and monitor our sites. The question then arises? How do can we improve communication to remote sites? Is it true that more throughputs will equal less time? Is Ethernet really the magic cure-all communication protocol? The purpose of this article is to show the myths, truths, advantages and disadvantages of both Ethernet and Serial communications and to illustrate the most effective way of implementing them.
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