Leading network services provider OilCamp has announced that it’s internally developed video conferencing solution, SOIL Meeting, has now signed up its 30th customer.
The service was launched in Norway just over 12 months ago, and has already achieved considerable success with companies now using the solution as part of their daily operations, and has become an integrated part of the communications spectrum in Norway.
The SOIL Meeting solution was commercially available from October 2005, after a successful trial with some of Norway’s leading Operators and Contractors. Since then, it has gone from strength to strength, building a considerable client base of over thirty companies. Users of the service come from all sectors of the Oil and Gas Industry, from Operators to Drilling Companies and include companies such as Hydro, Statoil, Conoco Phillips, Baker Hughes, Total, Aker Kvearner, Dolphin Drilling, Halliburton, GASSCO, Fabricom and Subsea7. The number of clients is set to rise further still with even more companies in the pipeline ready to sign up to the service.
The SOIL Meeting solution has changed the way the oil and gas industry in Norway communicates with video. Although video was already used by some operators for communication between onshore and offshore installations, and for internal company meetings, it had limitations for expansion as companies had security and quality concerns about communicating by video over IP outside their company networks. SOIL Meeting has addressed these concerns, by allowing companies to use the SOIL network as the carrier, thereby making IP video secure for meetings between companies.
OilCamp are also continually looking at ways to improve the SOIL Meeting service to meet future requirements. Working with videoconferencing manufacturing giants TANDBERG, OilCamp are currently looking at ways to extend the multi-conferencing possibilities, provide streaming services and also find ways of bringing video conferences securely to the user’s desktop through the use of webcam’s.
Commenting on the success of the service, OilCamp’s Sales and Marketing Director Tom Rune Espedal says “We worked extensively with the Oil and Gas community when we were developing this product, and continue to work with them to ensure that the service meets the unique operating requirements of the industry today and in the future. This attention to our core market, coupled with innovative technology and our high service standards, has allowed us to provide a service that can really help clients to boost their operating efficiency and streamline multiple operations”