The energy industry presents significant and unusual challenges for enterprise networks. Oil and gas fields are widely dispersed mainly in remote locations beyond the range of traditional wired communications, in areas such as vast plains, deep deserts, and the ocean floor. Environments can be extremely harsh — cold, ice and snow, searing heat, and salt fog require special safety and control mechanisms so that business operations can proceed uninterrupted.
These challenges call for a wireless network with extensive protection and wide coverage. It would provide remote SCADA data transmission for controlling and monitoring critical physical processes at oil and gas locations, such as pressure, temperature, load, voltage, the start-stop status, and other critical production data of remote wells and offshore drilling sites. In addition, in order to fast respond to emergency situations, mobile surveillance, reliable voice communications and video trunking that covers an entire location are not only desirable, but essential.
Huawei eLTE solution solves these unique needs with a shared network for oil and gas operations. It provides up to 100 Mbps throughput with low latency, exceptional long-distance coverage. It supports voice and video trunking, data services, video transfer and more in a single network. This would help customers with massive data sharing and multidisciplinary collaboration opportunities which would ensure smooth production operations and instant response.
Multiple Services in One Network
Real-time data and video collected in a remote monitoring center, PTT communications systems would promote productivity, efficiency, and economies of scale throughout the business. Huawei eLTE solution provides multiple services in a enterprise wireless network :
- Machine-to-Machine (M2M) capability for remote Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) data transmission
- Mobile video to ensure instant emergency response and safe production flows
- Broadband trunking which supports both voice and video to promote informed decision-making and quick execution
- Mobile Broadband (MBB) services for easy access to the enterprise network and services from the field
Reliable Communications in Harsh Environments
Frequency is one of most concerns for oil & gas operators to deploy a wireless networks. Huawei offers 400M / 800M / 1.4G / 1.8G / 2.3G / 2.6G / 3.5G / 3.7G / 5.8GHz, including unlicensed and mission-critical frequency to enable customers to use existing or preferred spectrum for their requirements.
Huawei also offers a selection of reliable communications devices that can be used for different services or operations, such as exploration, extraction, and refining. Huawei products include mobile handsets for trunking, CPE installed at remote sites for M2M communication, and a multi-purpose USB dongle for wireless broadband access from the field, station, or drilling platform.
Exceptional Long-Distance Coverage
With the eLTE solution, Huawei provides ultra long-distance wireless broadband access (verified) up to 100 km (100 Mbit/s /DL, 50 Mbit/s / UL), that enable oil and gas customers to build broadband connections between ship, offshore, and ground locations. In 2012, Huawei deployed the world’s first LTE network (Tampnet) for offshore to provide broadband services within a 37 km radius in the North Sea.
