FEATURE PROJECT ‘KOETE’ CONTINUES TO GO ‘BEYOND’ A First Of Its Kind US$1.5 Bn Technology Ecosystem Being Developed BY PETER BANNISTER AND GARY KENNEDY
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n line with Forum Magazine’s theme of ‘Global Outlook’ let us tell you a little about Perth in Western Australia where we live and work and develop Project Koete (Koete being a Japanese word that means ‘To Go Beyond’). Perth is the most geographically isolated capital city in the world and yet ‘right next door’ to the Asia and the Pacific region which is home to 4.1 billion people, or two thirds of the world’s population and Perth is geographically closer to Asia Pacific than Sydney or Melbourne. Perth is known as the City of Lights – so called by the US astronaut Captain John Glenn who flew over Western Australia in 1962 in his spacecraft and again in 1998 in a space shuttle and all the residents of the city and surrounding suburbs turned on their lights to acknowledge his achievement. Western Australia has an export-oriented economy, with almost half of Australia’s annual exports of goods originating from the state including minerals, petroleum, agri-food and specialised manufactured goods. The state also attracts many international visitors and students each year. These export industries support employment
across the Western Australian economy Perth is also the operational home base for Project Koete that reticulates along the coastline between the West and Northern territories of Australia and heads up through Asia Pac to Kuantan in Malaysia via Indonesia and Singapore. In those locations we work with partners to take us globally – both in the DC and Subsea cable space. Project Koete’s subsea cable system also provides onshore connectivity via BU’s and CLS onto the coastline between Perth and Darwin where the big Minerals and Resources projects reside. Project Koete also reticulates the offshore waters where the big Oil & Gas entities play and the FLNG market resides. Digitalisation of those Oilfields is expected to generate US$30Bn
Western Australia has an export-oriented economy, with almost half of Australia’s annual exports of goods originating from the state including minerals, petroleum, agri-food and specialised manufactured goods.
PROJECT KOETE – A PICTURE PAINTS A THOUSAND WORDS:
‘Koete’ is a Japanese word that literally means ‘to go beyond’ and that is exactly what the project aims to achieve as FEPL continues to develop a first of its kind US$1.5 Bn technology ecosystem based in the Western and Northern JANUARY 2021 | ISSUE 116
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