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NON EXPORT CONTROLLED INFORMATION

November 2015

Offshore, Deep & Ultra-Deep Water E&P:

South East Asia’s Mission Critical

Communications Requirements

Saiful Alias, Harris CapRock Communications

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Months from rig count peak

Rig count performance from peak… …with thoughts by segment

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As of Sept

2015

Rig count declining again with recent downward trends in oil prices

North American land: U.S. land activity

continues to move lower as hedges roll-off and

liquidity tightens.

International land: Q3 avg. international rig

count -3% q/q and -16% y/y, with all regions

(except Middle East) now down ~15+% y/y. But

Saudi Arabia land rig count set a new all-time

high (+8 rigs m/m to 106 rigs).

Offshore rig market: – Offshore rig activity still

trickling lower as floaters drilling flat w/w (4-wk -

13) while jackups -2 (4-wk -8).

Jackup market regional activity trends that

we have seen over past few weeks continue to

play out as strength in the ME was not enough to

offset weakness in SE Asia and NW Europe.

Most deep water drillers anticipate declines into 2017

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APAC deep water market severely

impacted

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Deepwater segment (number of active rigs)

“We all know our industry is cyclical.

But as we have been saying for a

considerable period of time, this will be

a long and a hard downturn, the likes

of which we have not seen for

decades…. The recovery in

As older rigs leave market, fleet high-grading and new builds will lead to

growing sophistication in communications requirements

“Over the past 12 months, we've taken

delivery of four newbuild rigs, we have

sold six rigs, and placed another six

rigs into held for sale, removing them

deepwater drilling remains well over the horizon and any

green shoots that would indicate that the market is

turning are a very long way out.”

from our go-forward fleet. This is part of a deliberate

strategy to high-grade our fleet as we navigate the

downturn.”



Deep water communications requirements

driving three primary trends

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• High-touch services:

Customers increasingly

willing to trade network

control for simplicity and

lower costs

• Bandwidth: Demand growth

continues in deep water

• Mobility: Growing

requirement as long-term

contracts are broken by

operators, extensions

increasingly shorter-term

Critical and growing needs across all lines of business

driving customer segmentation

• End-to-end network

management differentiates,

especially as mobility

increases as drillers chase

work and day rates

• Raises technical

requirements and enables

differentiation through

network solutions and tech

• Global reach becomes

more important which drives

the need for more integrated

solutions

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Three primary trends for deep waterTrend overview Implication

Bandwidth, mobility and service requirements continue to increase in the

downturn, requirements to accelerate in the recovery



Harris CapRock response: integration across

technology, applications and network



Harris CapRock One: Global managed

communications in remote environments

• HCOne is a set of hardware, software, and

reoccurring services bundled together as

ONE product

• HCOne automatically selects the best

communications route for information

using Harris’ proprietary equipment and

software

• HCOne improves reliability of service

compared to other services through high

levels of redundancy and the ability to use

multiple transports

• Being fully automated, and with no moving

parts to change frequencies from C, Ku, or

Ka, HCOne is ideally suited for mobility

applications

Harris CapRock One is a managed communications services support by

the global scale of Harris CapRock



Why Harris CapRock One?

• C-Band Global

• C-Band Hemi

• Ku Regional

• Ku HTS Spot

• O3b Ka MEO Spot

• Geographical freedom

with minimal intervention

whilst being band

optimized

• Active selection between

bands for performance

and availability

• Ability to access the next

gen Ku and Ka satellites

without additional

radomes



Key System Features and Benefits

Feature Benefit

Unique, patented multi-band design with

minimized moving parts

Reduces need for multiple radomes, saving deck

space

Mechanical simplicity results in higher availability,

few tech visits

Remotely switchable between C, Ku

Remotely switchable between C Linear and

Circular

Improved global coverage, higher availability

Increase flexibility and efficiency of the space

segment management via easy-to-use

reconfiguration

Intelligent network awareness Select best network based on conditions and

plan, not just beam or band as a result of an

outage. For locations such as APAC, eliminate

rain fade concerns

Comprehensive NMS and remote system

management

Sophisticated system monitoring, diagnostics and

troubleshooting reduce time to resolve issues

OpenAMIP compliant. Support for multiple

antennas and modems

Global performance, scales as fleet requirements

grow

Upgradeable to support Ka-band Future proof system solution



System diagram and capabilities

ICD

Antenna Manager

* OBM and wireless equipment omitted for clarity.

Up to 7 modems can be

supported (limit being number of

Modem Rx ports).

Modems currently supported:

iDirect, Comtech and Viasat

Up to 8 antennas can be supported.

Anticipated installations would range between

1-4 antennas, depending on site obstruction

and service requirements.

Client Interface



Intelligent controller device: Overview

The Intelligent Controller Device’s (ICD) primary building blocks:

1. Geographical awareness of the connectivity options, technology type, and available resources in a

given location (i.e. satellite or wireless)

2. Rules based decision making around the location, network parameters at the location, and real time

performance of the available network options with ability to automatically configure the equipment to

best suit the location and demands of the site (i.e. automatically point the antenna, change

frequency band, and configure the modem).

3. End-to-end networking solution to manage the delivery of the traffic across the various connectivity

options

Physically, the ICD sits at the transition

point between the client interface and the

WAN services.

Logically, the ICD sits at the transition point

between layers 2 and 3 in the seven layer

ISO stack.



Harris CapRock One service offering

Hardware Packages

Evolution Gold Platinum1 Dual Band Antenna 2 Dual band Antennas 3 Tri-band Antennas

Gold +

Ka-Band

Evolution +

Enhanced resilience

Ku, C

Auto beam

switching

Upgradable



Application Note

Challenge:

• 100% availability is so important that

some clients install full vessel duplication

IT Data Center systems onboard their

vessels including and also station

additional personnel to operate &

maintain them, Data integrity and

availability is critical to the operational

environment.

Solution:

• With Harris CapRock One you can

maintain a robust connection all the time

thanks to the automatic routing and

switching traffic across the best available

network at the time for the application.

Customer Advantage:

• No need for significant capital expenditure on

redundant systems.

• Increased Remote operations, management

and control capability.

• Reduction in onboard personnel .

• Improved safety with fewer personnel in

harm’s way.



Application Note

Challenge:

• For highly mobile vessels that have new

clients/operators coming onboard, move

between global operational locations or

change between a variety of satellite bands

need to have people mobilized to the vessel

to manually reconfigure their communications

systems causing delays and raising OPEX

costs

Solution:

• With Harris CapRock One contiguous

multiband roaming features we can move

location without delay while seamlessly

moving between required bands without

losing connectivity

Key points:

• Faster mobility reducing between job time &

increasing ability to react to market need

• Reduced manual Intervention lowers OPEX

logistics costs (transportation / bed space)

• Reduced Intervention Fault Risk

Customer Advantage:

• With typical volume of location / frequency

changes Harris CapRock One Users could

add 10’s of millions to their bottom line in

faster higher mobility capabilities, days of

saved transit preparation time & reduced

manual intervention OPEX on every Harris

CapRock One enabled vessel per year



Harris CapRock One



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