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The city of Rio de Janeiro will once again be the location for the latest in the GVF-EMP Oil & Gas Communications Conference series as it launches into its 2012 global program.

Held in association with Harris CapRock, Intelsat, RigNet, Hughes, Telespazio, KVH, C-COM Satellite Systems, and with special thanks to Petrobras, ‘Oil & Gas Communications Brazil 2012: 21st Century Digital Oilfield & Gasfield Imperatives Onshore, Offshore, and in Deepwater’ will take place over April 25th & 26th 2012 at the Windsor Barra Hotel.

This conference brings the GVF-EMP Oil & Gas Communications Series to its 14th event, and will feature dialogues that, among other key topics to be presented by Harris CapRock, Intelsat, and KVH, will cover the following themes:

• Evolution in Hydrocarbons Exploration & Production: What the Oil & Gas Sector Needs from the Satellite Industry, led by a keynote opening address from Firmiano Perlingeiro, Senior Engineer, Petrobras
• Satellite to the Cloud: Evolving New Commercial Oil & Gas Applications to the Satellite & Satellite-Hybrid Communications Environment to be explored by Tim Lajza, Managing Director, Integrated Solutions, Harris CapRock, and Renato Levenhagen, Product Manager, Hughes
• Deep & Ultra-Deep Water Exploration: Growing Demand for VSATs in Deep Water Drilling To be analysed by Hector Maytorena, Vice President & General Manager, Western Hemisphere, RigNet
• Global Satellite Operators in the Brazilian Oil & Gas Patch: Planning Capacity Provision & Deploying Service Supply to be introduced by Marcio Brasil, Sales Director, Intelsat
• Global Collaboration Services in the Oilfield: The Brazilian Case to be explored by Mauricio Rubinsztajn, General Manager, RigNet
• Brazil Wasting Bandwidth, Wasting Money: Bandwidth Monitoring and Optimization in Oil & Gas Satellite Networks to be analysed by Jeferson Almeida, Pre-Sales Manager, Hughes
• Defining the Auto-Deploy Advantage of VSAT Antennas in Oil and Gas E&P Environments to be introduced by Drew Klein, Director, International Business Development, C-COM Satellite Systems
• Integrated Communications in the Oil & Gas Environment to be explained by Thiago Lopes da Rosa, Telecommunications Engineer, Petrobras
• Oil & Gas VSAT: South American Networking Case Studies in E&P to be presented by Bill Carlin, Vice President Sales, Latin America/Middle East/Africa, Comtech EF Data

Additionally, the focus of attendees will also extend to the subject of satellite radio frequency interference in the oil & gas communications environment. This topic will be examined over two sessions, the first offering the perspectives of Petrobras (with some inputs from GVF), and the second offering the detailed perspectives of the satellite communications solutions sector, as follows:

In the first session:

1: Industry Mitigation Strategies – Installer & Maintenance Training for the Offshore Environment, Equipment Product Quality Assurance & Network Validation Analyses will be addressed by Angelo Antonio Caldeira Canavitsas, Equipment Engineer, Petrobras (with a satellite-industry perspective from Martin Jarrold, Chief of International Programme Development, GVF)

In the second session:

Radio Frequency Interference in the Oil & Gas Space 2: Industry Mitigation Strategies – Installer & Maintenance Training, Equipment Product Quality Assurance, Network Validation Analyses, Carrier ID, Spectrum Initiatives, Space Data Association, and Satellite ID/Auto-Deploy Antenna Systems which will feature presentations from J.R. Cristóvam Nascimento, CEO, UNISAT Engenharia de Telecomunicaçõs, Correspondent Member & Trainer/Examiner, GVF, Charles Cox, Chief Operating Officer, Americas, Hermes Datacomms, and Martin Jarrold, Chief of International Programme Development, GVF

As with all events in the Oil & Gas Communications Series, complimentary registration is available for: Oil/Gasfield Operators; Drillers, Shipping & Transportation companies; Support Vessel owners; Rig Owners/Operators; IT/IS/ICT/Telecoms, Connectivity & Networks/Procurement specialists.

Full details of the Oil & Gas Communications Brazil 2012 conference programme all other GVF-EMP Conference Partnership events for both the Oil & Gas Communications Series, and the Broadband Maritime Series, can be found here.

GVF Oil & Gas Conference Series Chairman Martin Jarrold can be contacted at martin.jarrold@gvf.org. Paul Stahl, Managing Partner of EMP can be contacted as shown below.