One battlefront in the slugging match between the oil and gas
service behemoths is the degree to which services can be delivered ‘as advertised’
to remote parts of the world. Key to this is a secure, reliable communications
network. Halliburton Energy Services (HES) has extended its high-speed satellite
communications network, HalLink, into Angola, Nigeria, and Algeria. HalLink
is already operational in the Americas.
Powers HES president Jody Powers said “The extension of HalLink into
Africa is a key component of Halliburton’s Real Time Reservoir Solutions strategy
that integrates people, technology, and processes to improve the speed and quality
of reservoir development decisions.” HalLink links field operations to Halliburton’s
real time centers and visualization rooms at the customer’s office. In Angola,
the HalLink network is now available for both onshore and offshore operations,
with units mounted on two stimulation vessels – the Falcon Tide and the War
Admiral. SAIC HalLink system was designed and deployed by Science Applications
International Corporation (SAIC) and includes specially-designed, stabilized,
skid-mounted, quick-deploy communications units for use on semi-submersible
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