Oil & Gas Communications: Africa & the Middle East

JW Marriot Hotel, Cairo, May 15th, 16th & 17th, 2006

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Background

 

In vertical markets around the world the ready availability of, and reliable, cost-effective, access to, efficient means of communication is essential to mission critical operations success. In order to further contribute to the facilitation of key discussion and networking opportunities – within which the subject of the communications imperatives for key verticals can be fully addressed – the satellite (and wider ICT community) is preparing for a major conference. This event will address the communications imperatives of the oil & gas sector specifically, and with particular reference to Africa and the Middle East.

 

The GVF has identified a range of key themes to be explored at Oil & Gas Communications: Africa and the Middle East, which will take place in Cairo, Egypt, over the period 15-17 May 2006, including:

 

-            The evolutionary dynamics of application and technology trends

-            Bandwidth supply and demand; Bandwidth pricing and Quality of Service issues

-            Hybridisation of communications solutions offerings

-            Satellite links and disaster recovery

-            Using communications to manage environmental impact Oil & gas e-commerce;    

 the licensing/regulatory environment; and, industry case studies

 

Oil & Gas Communications: Africa and the Middle East will bring together key leaders and experts from the oil & gas sector, end-user, community, as well as the communications industry, provider, community into one high-level discussion and networking forum. In so doing, the conference will create opportunities for companies in a major global vertical to call upon ICT solutions providers – whether based on terrestrial wireline or wirelesss, or satellite – to match their offerings more closely to the specific demands and requirements of this end-user sector.

 

The GVF (Global VSAT Forum) is headquartered in London and is an independent, non-partisan and non-profit organisation with 180+ members from more than 70 countries – organisations engaged in the delivery of advanced broadband and narrowband satellite services to consumers, and commercial and government enterprises worldwide.

 

The final day of Oil & Gas Communications: Africa and the Middle East will feature a training programme from the GVF’s suite of Regulatory & Policy Capacity-Building tools and its range of Courseware for Sustainable Network Deployment