..occur at the Marriott Hotel, Dyce, Aberdeen, Scotland, on May 14th and 15th, 2013. Sponsored by Intelsat, Telenor Satellite Broadcasting, Eutelsat Communications, Comtech EF Data, and Ceragon, the program offers free-of-charge attendance for representatives of oil & gas industry communications solution end-users—specialists in IT/IS/ICT/Telecoms, Connectivity & Networks/Procurement/SLAs from Oil/Gasfield Operators, Drillers, Shipping & Transportation, Support Vessels, Rig Owners/Operators.

As the GVF-EMP Conference Partnership builds towards this next event in the Oil & Gas Communications Conference Series, the Partnership is delighted to announce that the Series conference just concluded in Rio de Janeiro has been lauded as the best event in the GVF-EMP Conference Series devoted to the oil & gas communications imperatives of the rapidly growing Brazilian hydrocarbons extraction sector. The presentations from the Brazil conference may be downloaded at this direct link.

The Aberdeen event in May will feature themes that are of key significance for the European oil & gas communications markets, such as:

• Trending Now! Global Broadband Satcoms & Europe’s Oil & Gas Patch Future Evolution
• The Global & Regional Satellite Operator View from Earth Orbit: Satellite Capacity Supply, Service Models, Solutions Delivery, and Oil & Gas Patch Capacity Demand
• Satellite Communications at the Cutting-Edge: Leveraging the High-Capacity/High-Throughput/Ka-band Advantage in E&P
• Oil, Gas & Communications Spectrum: Interference Challenges & Challenging Interference
• Network Performance Optimization: The Technical Analytics Understood
• Cloud-over-Satellite for E&P Networking: Risk Assessment & Data Security
• Network Hierarchy Flexibility in Oil & Gas
• Terrestrial Communications Technology Environments: Stabilised Microwave Wireless
• Telemetry, Monitoring & Asset Tracking: M2M Terminal Application Dynamics for Oil & Gas
• MegaBits per Second and Dollars per Day: Defining the Most Cost-Effective Communications Solutions for Oil & Gas
• Licensing & Regulation in Europe’s Mature & Emerging Oil & Gas Space

Participating organisations for the 2013 European conference include: Intelsat; Telenor Satellite Broadcasting; Eutelsat Communications; Comtech EF Data; Cobham SATCOM; SES; Gilat Satellite Networks; Harris CapRock; Orange Business Services, Hermes Datacomms; Romantis; SkyWave Ceragon; RigNet; ConocoPhillips; Diamond Offshore Drilling; Talisman; Sinopec; BP; Technip; Subsea 7; Northern Sky Research; and Access Partnership, with others confirming their contributions daily.