Exploration • Drilling • Field Services


Software ensures commercially sensitive data is protected and controls the use of laptops to specific regions of the world.


El software asegura que los datos comercialmente sensibles están protegidos y controla el uso de portátiles en regiones específicas del mundo.


Software schützt in bestimmten Regionen der Welt sensible Wirtschaftsdaten und kontrolliert die Verwendung von Laptops.


Protecting sensitive oil and gas exploration data


company has a strong presence in Africa, where it is opening up new basins and helping to establish new oil producing countries such Ghana and Uganda, and a growing presence in Asia. One of the most important assets for


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Tullow Oil is its information, especially geological information and data about


ullow Oil is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, with operations in 22 countries around the world. Te


new oil finds and areas of potential discovery. But, invariably the location of existing and new oil reserves is often in some of the most remote and inhospitable regions of the world where there is a high risk of theft or crime. Tullow Oil staff, who travel extensively to these regions, need to have access to this data wherever they happen to be. Trudie Seeney, Information Systems


Asset Manager says: “We have a very high proportion of staff - around 700 - who regularly travel around the world.


Fig. 1. The Eirik Raude semi-submerssible rig, operating on the Jubilee Field, offshore Ghana.


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