Challenge
Angola’s maturing offshore oil and gas industry is a source of national pride, with aggressive exploration and development underway by many of the world’s largest oil and gas operators. This rapid expansion has created the need for operators to efficiently and reliably connect deep water assets and remote shore bases for critical activities such as asset and safety management exploration, site monitoring, and production optimization.
Solution
OSI has led all technical aspects of a program in which the concessionaire has joined together with a consortium of operators to plan and deliver broadband fiber connections to many of their key, high-value assets. Since the beginning of this program, OSI has worked closely with the operators managing route planning, platform access, technology assessment, and vendor negotiation and selection. In addition to operational efficiencies gained by a shared fiber-to-the-platform plan, operators also benefit from OSI’s work assisting the development of a comprehensive risk-mitigation strategy.