High Throughput Satellites and Oil and Gas ‘Big Data’

Mike Manson, Senior Sales Manager – Oil and Gas

GVF Oil and Gas Communications, Aberdeen 2015

Overview

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• Telenor Satellite Broadcasting

• Satellite fleet and coverage

• Drivers for BIG Date and Solution - HTS Ka-band

• HTS v Conventional Satellites

• Example - THOR 7 HTS Ka Satellite

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• 100% owned by the Telenor Group, one of the world’s

major mobile operators

• Owns & operates the THOR satellite fleet at 1˚and 4˚

West – a prime European position for maritime

• Reputation for delivering quality broadcasting services

across Europe – 18+ million households

• Established offshore position in Northern Europe for

maritime VSAT services

• Wholesales satellite capacity and services across the

globe to the majority of industry distributors

• High powered coverage in the Middle East for land-based

broadband communication services

• Teleport facilities with qualified engineering & 24/7/365

Operational Support

Who we are

A major European satellite provider

THOR 7 launch success

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• Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s latest satellite blasted into space on April 26, 2015 and

was successfully injected into geostationary transfer orbit , 28 minutes after lift off.

• The satellite represents a milestone for the company – providing expansion capacity for

services in all the markets in which we operate across Europe

THOR coverage overview

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Combined Ku and Ka band

coverage at 1°West

Telenor Satellite Broadcasting offers

prime European Ku band coverage

and will offer Ka band coverage

optimised for the North Sea,

Norwegian, Barents and

Meditteranean Seas

Thor 7 Ka Band

Ku Band

The Driver - BIG DATA

The Solution – HTS (High Throughput Satellite)

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The Need for BIG DATA and Ka HTS

● Operational Needs

● Changing Workforce and Social Trends

● Frequencies – Lack Of Availability For Growth

HTS Brings Advantages...

• Availability Of Ka Spectrum

• Significantly Increased Throughput Per Beam

• Cost-effective Capacity (More Bits per $)

• Smaller Remote Antenna Systems and Lower Associated Cost

The Driver – Offshore data needs over time

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1980’s

Typically Radio & Inmarsat A Services

Early to mid 1990’s

Use of VSAT

Typically 64k Links

2000’s

Growth in demand

Typically 128-512k links

2008-2012

Significant growth

Typical 1Mb-2Mb

2015-

Continued growth in demand with 4Mb+ common-Recent test in Barents Sea at 25Mb

Increased use of IP applications are required to

stay in touch with business operations as well

as to improve the quality of life for crew working

on-board vessels and on offshore installations.

• Broadband Internet and E-Mail access

• VoIP (telephony)

• Audio and video streaming

• Crew Welfare/Social Media

• Improved access to corporate networks to enhance

operational requirements

• If you are using an image, ensure that

you crop the image to a portrait format.

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Key drivers For HTS and BIG DATA

Driver for this demand

offshore and at sea.

EuroConsult projects that by 2021 the VSAT

market will account for the majority of

satellite-based maritime communication

revenues.

Less than 5% of vessels have VSAT today

Ku band frequencies are increasingly

crowded

• New orbital positions are difficult to acquire

• Ku band high paying Broadcast satellite

services are utilising all the Ku available.

Regulatory

• Ka band – at least to Telenor, opens up 2.5GHz

of spectrum in two polarisations

Ka band technology has matured

• All major VSAT antenna manufacturers now

make Ka band antennas or Ku band antennas

upgradeable to Ka band

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Drive Towards HTS

Frequency Availability.

Why use Ka band ?

Traditional v HTS Satellite Technology

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Through frequency re-use

and small spot beams the

capacity increases

dramatically

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Small Ku MediumKu

Large Ku Thor 7

Throughput

Small Ku

Medium Ku

Large Ku

Thor 7

Traditional Ku Satellite vs. Ka Satellite (Example)

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Ku-Band Ka-Band

Coverage Regional, Global Regional, Global

Number of spots Small (1-5) Large (10-100)

Beam shape Circular, Shaped Circular

Polarisation Linear (typ.) Circular (typ.)

EIRP ~ 46-54dBW ~ 56-66 dBW

G/T ~ 0 - 6 dB/K ~ 6 - 14 dB/K

Throughput ~1 Gbps ~ 5 - 100+ Gbps

ACM

Inbound adaptivity

Antenna Site diversity

Satellite ALC

Increased Power

-Average of 10 dB more than Ku-Band

Teleport Diversity

- 30Km distance adequate to increase hub

to satellite availability to near 99.99%.

Adaptive level control at the

satellite

Adaptive antenna diversity

Adaptive outbound

Adaptive inbound

Rain fade mitigation – Ka band

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HTS - Remote VSAT Equipment

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Possible to use smaller antennas

● Typically 60 cm Ka-band used as opposed to 100 cm Ku-band antenna

● Translate to significant difference in radome size and offshore real estate

Smaller antennas generally means lighter

● Easier to place and install (less down time)

● Means smaller vessels can be targeted

Smaller antenna means less cost

● Volume is key to reducing cost further with all major manufacturers now

producing Ka Band antennas or upgrade kits.

HTS Example - THOR 7

Key data

•Manufacturer: SS Loral

•Launch vehicle: Ariane 5

•Date Launched:

26th of April 2015

•Service life: > 15 years

•Bus power: 9,9 kW

Missions

•Ku-band: Broadcasting /TV

•Ka-band: Maritime VSAT / other

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THOR 7 Payload Overview

• Ku-band DTH payload

• Ka-band Maritime/VSAT Payload

• 30 Fixed beams

• 24 can be simultaneously active

• Ka-band Steerable Beam

• Can be pointed anywhere on the visible earth

• Ka-band Antarctic Beam

• Fixed beam pointed over parts of the Antarctic

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THOR 7 Ka-band Maritime Coverage I-Direct Velocity Platform

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THOR 7– Ka-Band steerable beam

• Steerable beam can be pointed

anywhere on the visible earth from

1º West orbital position

• Picture shows sample positioning over

North Sea region

• Bandwidth available:

• 100 MHz Fwd Channel

• 54 MHz Rtn Channel (option to switch

in another 234 MHz)

• Services:

• iDirect Velocity

• MHz + hosted platforms + backbone

connectivity

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THOR 7 Teleport Antennas

• Use antenna diversity to achieve near

99.99% link availability between teleport

and satellite

• 13 meter Ka-band antenna at main teleport

(Nittedal Teleport)

• 9 meter Ka-band antenna at secondary

location around 30 km aerial distance

• The 13 meter Ka-band

antenna installed at

Nittedal Teleport

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Maritime VSAT Antennas

• Cobham SATCOM becomes first antenna vendor approved

for TSBc’s THOR 7 satellite

• Sailor 900 upgradable/Ka-only antenna approved

• Intellian V100 antenna approved

• Other antennas in the evaluation stage

• Initial focus on ~ 1m antennas, expect smaller antennas

around 65 cm in size to also be available

• For Ka-band, standard configuration is 5 Watt BUC from

either JRC or Agilis

Achievable download speed: ~60 cm antenna: 10’s of Mbps

~100cm antenna: 10’s of Mbps

Achievable upload speed: ~60 cm antenna: 2-3 Mbps

~100cm antenna: 5-6 Mbps

CustomerEmpowerment

NetworkVisibility

CustomerPortal

CustomApps

HTS I-Direct Platform

• iDirect Velocity – Designed for HTS

• X7 modems, Ku Band compatible

• Web based monitoring

• Mapping of remote locations

• Tablet & Smartphone APP availability

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THOR 7 service portfolio

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• Pre-defined coverage

• Pre-defined bandwidth packages

• Wide range of bandwidth profiles

iDirect Managed Services

• Customised coverage

• Customised bandwidth packages

• Customised monitoring

• FULL VNO Administrative privileges

iDirect VNO/GSP Wholesale services

• Satellite capacity

• Equipment hosting

• Access to Telenor’s backbone infrastructure

SCPC and Hosted services

(Steerable beam)

Managed Service

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Parameter Value / Description

Platform iDirect Velocity

Coverage All spot beams

MIR rates 128 kbps – 8192 kbps

CIR rates 32 kbps – 2048 kbps

Bandwidth Asymmetry 1:1, 2:1, 4:1

FAP Yes – exact policy is TBD

Service Availability 99.5%

IP addresses IPv4 private is default, public IPv4 at

additional charge, IPv6 also available

Optional services Leased line termination, Hosting, VoIP

support, Engineering support

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Conclusion:

The Advantages of Ka Band HTS for Oil and Gas -

E&P

• As demand for BIG DATA continues to grow HTS/Ka Band will play a significant

roll in E&P acting as an enabler to help address the needs of the O&G Industry

both now and in the future.

Producing benefits such as:-

• Enhancing the options to deploy latest Digital Oilfield Technologies in an Effort to

Improve and optimize production.

• Huge potential advantages in terms of cost efficiencies more Bits per $ during

challenging times for the O&G Industry.

• Improve Crew Welfare Services and Help Increase Staff Retention.

• Use of HTS/Ka-band is the next evolutionary step for E&P Comms

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