Modern communication packages enable e-field applications

摘要

About the time a new service becomes accepted by everyone in the offshore business, a supplier comes along with a better solution. Satcom, as those who work closely with the systems call it, has now penetrated into offshore oil and gas operations so deeply that hardly any rig, platform, ship, barge, or boat is without the service. The trend now is to improve what's out there, organize the equipment to give better service, or make things cheaper. It's that last item that gets the most attention among oil and gas operators, who pay the bill.