Future communications infrastructure to build on new standards, satellites

摘要

The year 2005 promises to be an interesting time for those involved in providing communications services to offshore and remote E&P operations, including telecom companies, information technology integrators, and network service and solution providers. Keeping to the well-established practice of leveraging new communications technologies developed for broader commercial markets, these communications providers will begin to combine and implement new offerings to support the need for improved infrastructure and connectivity between increasingly automated business processes and operations. One of the major US upstream information technology challenges will be the need for timelier financial reporting of oil and gas production and reserves computations. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance (in the US) and increased shareholder emphasis on transparency and accountability will drive companies to install data and communication solutions that enable more accurate financial snapshots.