Industry Thought Leadership

The combination of two satellite networks in September 2023 converted Eutelsat and OneWeb overnight into Eutelsat Group, the world’s first GEO-LEO satellite network operator, whose hybrid capabilities combine network density and high throughput (GEO) with high-speed and low-latency connectivity everywhere (LEO). For oil and gas industry leaders and the wider energy sector, including on and offshore, we now deliver a portfolio of unique, robust, mobile and fixed connectivity services to remote sites and vessels where high-value complex work takes place, often in potentially hazardous conditions. Offshore, these include drilling rigs, production platforms, and wind turbines; or support vessels used for intervention, diving, lifting, anchor handling, logistics, and accommodation. Onshore, in regions that include the Middle East and Mexico, we can deploy hybrid solutions to wherever limited bandwidth, lower speed, or higher latency together restrict instrumentation and overall operational efficiency onsite.

The rapid expansion of Eutelsat OneWeb's satellite network to deliver more robust, far-reaching connectivity with higher speeds and low latency is transforming the energy industry where our partners and customers operate. Better connectivity has paved the way for new and enhanced digital tools and applications: access to new levels of data is fuelling new solutions across a vast range of activities and requirements.

This places Eutelsat OneWeb partners among the first to access the benefits of both GEO and LEO network services in a more connected world; and are able to harness this for their core business activities, meet unique sets of new requirements, and benefit crew safety, efficiency, and wellbeing.

Oil companies that have widely deployed campus connectivity across production facilities have become leading case studies for a wider digital transformation taking place. Fast, reliable connectivity to the cloud and the corporate network is vital to their infrastructure, allowing real-time data processing and analysis. Better data insights enable oil companies to gain visibility across the entire value chain, breaking down silos between upstream, midstream, and downstream operations. Additionally, better-connected sites can be life-changing for the communities stationed there in terms of welfare and wellbeing.

Eutelsat OneWeb solutions designed to integrate with other transmission systems such as fibre and satellite, mean that technologies such as SD-WAN can maximize availability, prioritize the most critical traffic, and securely segregate traffic according to specified use cases. Our GEO and LEO solutions can be available as primary, backup, and alternate routes, based on the traffic and reliability needs of your field network.

Offshore, Eutelsat OneWeb satellite connectivity is a valuable assist to worker-and-process safety, making critical data readily available to engineers together with the tools to help them identify and mitigate adverse conditions prior to their impact on safety. Enhanced access to data from onshore facilities also minimizes the need for offshore travel and the time taken to research potential issues. Through use of enhanced monitoring such as wearable technology, IoT, detection systems and AI, and machine learning, conditions can be quickly analysed and actions taken, including pre-planned or auto-initiated, to bring conditions into a safe state and provide additional time for other measures and actions that can minimize risk to people and plant.

Eutelsat OneWeb’s focus on ubiquity, reliability, speed, capacity, and low latency, also prioritizes the cyber resilience and quality of service that our government partners and their clients require. We offer service level agreements as assurance to oil, gas, and energy customers and the technologies they require for production, processing, and distribution. Our partnership ethos, and focus on secure, resilient connectivity helps industry leaders to manage market volatility, minimize risk, and optimize their operations, whilst improving the exploration and management of existing resources.

The demand for enhanced connectivity across the oil, gas, and energy market is expected to grow as needs develop in the coming years. Eutelsat OneWeb’s unique knowledge, expertise, partnership ethos, and innovation allow us to respond most effectively, with the added opportunity of fine-tuning and additional features on top of our dedicated services wherever the traffic demands. Our unique ecosystem of partners, investors, and stakeholders across two business units (Video and Connectivity), that serve government, maritime, enterprise, and aviation clients underscores our mission – to be the most trusted partner for global satellite connectivity. What our partners deliver to their end customers informs our own portfolio of services as we collaborate and grow together. Connecting your world changes everything.