Several tangentially related articles from the September 2009 issue of Subtel Forum Magazine:
subtelforum.com
Exordium - Welcome to the 46th edition of Submarine Telecoms Forum, our Oil & Gas issue - Page 2
Subsea Fiber in the Energy Industry, Greg Berlocher - Page 10
ROV - Operable Fibre Optic Cable End Module, Inge Vintermyr, Rolf Boe, Jorn Wardeberg - Page 15
BP – Using Connectivity To Drive Productivity, David Latin - Page 21
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A more recent article from January of this year:
Ocean Specialists completes rapid submarine fiber installation in Gulf of Mexico
Date 01/14/10 By OSI
Ocean Specialists Inc. (OSI) has completed a turnkey submarine cable installation for a major oil and gas operator in the Gulf of Mexico. Ocean Specialists, Inc (OSI) was contracted to assist their team in the design, procurement and construction of a submarine fiber link between two strategically important deep gas platforms in the South Marsh Island area offshore Louisiana. Due to the requirement for a rapid, reliable response, OSI was contracted to specify and source the fiber cable, provide full route design, engineering and permitting, termination and platform landing design, and finally to assemble the cable installation and burial spread. OSI then managed the installation, including full system burial and numerous pipeline crossings.
Cont.: subtelforum.com
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[FAC: One could muse, "If only the oil industry would invest as much capital in 'fail-over' capabilities as today's IT professionals almost always seem religiously inclined to do, and perhaps include the necessary "containment" capabilities to prevent the sort of calamity we're now witnessing in the Gulf of Mexico (as one poster noted earlier today in a PM)...", but how much difference would it actually make, given the level of uncertainty that generally characterizes such environments amid plate tectonic activity, erupting volcanoes and unpredictable, if not constantly worsening, weather factors? Might containers need to be built to back up the primary containment capability? Etc., etc., etc. I suspect such measures, even if dealt with realistically, would be both uneconomical and incapable of surviving environmental impact analysis. Comments, corrections, questions welcome.]
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