Satellite communications for North Sea oil/gas operations. Volume 1: Summary
Abstract
The applicability of satellite communications to oil/gas operations in the North Sea area was considered. Some trade-off analyses on specific areas were accomplished and a baseline system is proposed. The concept supposed to be economically most attractive uses digitized transmission techniques offering a large degree of flexibility and freedom for further optimization. Each earth terminal employing a 2.5 m parabolic antenna could be provided with a pair of uplink and downlink carriers operating in the 12 GHz band, PSK modulated by a convolutionally encoded binary data stream of 64000 bps. It is shown that this capacity is adequate to satisfy the needs of a typical offshore production complex. A single 20 W spacecraft repeater employing a 1.4 deg North Sea beam would suffice. This space segment could be a part of a multipurpose European communication satellite.
- Publication:
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Final Report Dornier-Werke G.m.b.H
- Pub Date:
- April 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974dwgf.reptQ....B
- Keywords:
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- Communication Satellites;
- North Sea;
- Offshore Platforms;
- Cost Analysis;
- Natural Gas;
- Oil Exploration;
- Parabolic Antennas;
- Phase Shift Keying;
- Superhigh Frequencies;
- Communications and Radar