Hermes Datacomms to Support Tullow Oil Operations in Africa

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Hermes Datacomms offers service in 54 countries representing 92% of the world’s oil & gas reserves.

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[Satellite TODAY 05-22-13] Hermes Datacommunications International, a provider of Wide Area Network communications to the upstream oil and gas industry, has won a significant contract to support Tullow Oil with their operations in Africa. Under the 24-month deal, Hermes will use its pan–African satellite platform to provide a connection from Tullow Oil’s data center in London to its Ethiopia office in Addis Ababa, extending core services to the continent and growing the current services in Kenya.

“Using a high power C-band footprint, a link has been provided between the Tullow Oil data center and Hermes Datacomms’ teleport, effectively putting my clients ‘on net’ to provide this service and creating significant capacity for future service. Completing the circuit is a VSAT connection from Hermes Datacomms’ teleport to a 1.8m C-band antenna on the roof of Tullow Oil’s Ethiopia office, plus full redundancy in Addis Ababa and automatic switching in the event of failure,” Ian Theophilus, global IS infrastructure manager for Tullow Oil, said in a statement.

Hermes Datacomms manages the service end-to-end, freeing up Tullow Oil resources to concentrate on their core business of servicing and supporting the user community to improve efficiency in oil exploration and production activities in the region. Key monitoring data as well as day-to-day office functions can be accessed on the link to provide the remote users with an HQ office experience.