Redline Communications Group, a provider of broadband wireless for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, announced a significant contract with an American oil and gas company for a wireless network for communications between wells, other assets, and drilling rigs in the oilfield, and their centralised control offices.
This oil company customer, already using Redline’s system in other parts of the world, is expanding its operations to Oman and has turned to Redline once again to meet their communications requirements. Delivery of products and services associated with the contract begins immediately with full deployment of the network expected to take up to 18 months.
“This contract is a major achievement for Redline and we are proud to have been selected as the network backbone for yet another oilfield project with this customer,” said Eric Melka, CEO of Redline. “We work hard to demonstrate value for our customers and when they select us for more deployments in more countries we know that we’ve been successful.”
Redline’s wireless broadband system allows personnel to monitor and control oil field production. This includes the ability to capture data in real-time from thousands of M2M sensors at remote sites.
The Virtual Fiber™ network will be built using Redline’s RDL-3000 and ELTE-MT systems and wireless broadband equipment designed by Redline for harsh environments, and engineered and built to the exacting standards required by the energy sector.
“Major oil and gas producers worldwide are turning to real-time monitoring and control capabilities to expand production at new, existing and mature oilfields,” said Bojan Subasic, Redline’s associate vice president development and production.
Redline’s Virtual Fiber network system offers the ability to instantly adjust to the living oil field as a whole — from individual well production, to drilling rigs, to the pressure of a part or all of the reserve itself — based on a variety of sensor data, including pressure, temperature, and flow.
This capability allows the oil company to optimally run each well or each drill, maximising drilling efficiency and uptime while minimising breakdowns from drilling too quickly through hard rock or other obstacles that could hamper the drilling activity.
