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Presentation Title: Integrated Communications Networks for Coal Seam Gas Speaker: Ben Hamilton

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Agenda

What is Coal Seam Gas (CSG)

Industry Challenges

Communication Designs

Technologies (Inc. 5G)

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What is CSG? By-product of coal formation process

CSG is trapped in coal seams by water &

pressure

When pressure is reduced, gas is

released

CSG is about 95-98% methaneCOMMS CONNECT 2014

What is CSG?

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Challenges Large number (10,000+) remote sites

Resources to efficiently maintain &

operate Wellheads

High labour & maintenance costs

Operational risks

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DesignsIndustry trends centred around:

Internetworking

Wellhead bandwidth

Protocol standardisation

Decreasing costs per well head

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Selecting the right technology with the right

integration partner ensures lower

maintenance costs for the life of a wellhead

Old School

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Process Control System

ControlLAN

Repeater / Admin

Repeater

Terminal & RTU

Terminal & RTU

Terminal & RTU

Terminal & RTU

Serial Server

Wi-Fi

Fibre

UHF

UHF

UHF

Considerations

Modular

Low latency

Plug & Play units

Systems based on open standards

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New Design

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Kiosk Layer Fibre or RadioLinks

Well head switch Layer

Aggregation / DMZ

Operational reporting, Integrated planning, scheduling, Data store &

Technical systems.

Enterprise Applications & Real time data analiytics

BusinessLAN

ControlLAN

Cluster

Cluster

Cluster

New Designs

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SCADA (Gas, Water, power); Telephony; Security CCTV; Access control

Kiosk Layer

Fibre or RadioLinks

Well head switch Layer

Technologies

LTE

WiMAX

Narrow Band / MiMOMax (12.5-

25kHz)

Wi-Fi

Fibre to the WellheadCOMMS CONNECT 2014

WiMAX

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LTE/3G

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5th Generation

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