Using the Web, experts said, is far more complicated than ringing up a service company's Internet server and scrolling through the latest data. Disparate software applications used in drilling, production enhancement, cementing and wire line services all must work together. Another problem is that the Internet creates a confidentiality problem as service companies seek to protect their information, as well as that of competing customers, while working on networks designed for rapidly moving information. The industry has yet to find all the solutions to sharing data over the Internet, according to Rogers. You want to provide information, but you don't want to expose yourself to security risks.
Remote technology is more than just a technique used by exploration and service companies.
It's a business. It also is deploying a range of satellite dishes for collecting and sending data from well sites. So far, it has deployed more than 20 in the United States, with a total of 72 expected by year's end. Latin America should see 38 by the end of the year, and West Africa should see the first such dishes in six to nine months, depending on regulatory approval from governments there. Advertiser List Albertson's Greenspoint Dodge Hodde Real Estate Houston Indep.