ANALYTICS
BY KIERAN CLARK
SUBMARINE TELECOMS MARKET SECTOR REPORT Offshore Oil & Gas Edition
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o address the growing reporting and analysis needs of the submarine fiber industry, STF Analytics has launched a new product this month to provide the industry with the information it needs to make informed business decisions. The Submarine Telecoms Market Sector Report will be a bi-monthly product covering a specific sector of the submarine fiber industry and coincides with the theme of each issue of the SubTel Forum Magazine. The first edition of this report addresses the offshore oil & gas sector of the submarine fiber industry with the next edition to address new technology and data centers. The first edition of the Submarine Telecoms Market Sector Report was authored by the analysts at STF Ana-
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lytics, which is a Division of Submarine Telecoms Forum, Inc., and provides submarine cable system analysis for SubTel Forum’s Submarine Cable Almanac, Cable Map, Industry Report and Industry Newsfeed. For this Offshore Oil & Gas edition, STF Analytics utilizes its proprietary Oil & Gas Submarine Cable Database, which was initially developed in 2012 and modified with real-time data thereafter, and tracks some 80+ current and planned cable systems for the Oil & Gas sector, including project information suitable for querying by client, year, project, region, system length, capacity, landing points, owners, installers, etc. The Oil & Gas Submarine Cable Database is purpose-built by STF An-
alytics’ database administration team, which is powered by My SQL and retained on a Microsoft Azure platform. Data is collected from the public domain and interviews with industry experts and is the most accurate, comprehensive, and centralized source of information in the industry. At present, STF Analytics’ Oil & Gas Submarine Cable Database is chronicling the work of some 17 cable owners, 5 system suppliers, 4 system surveyors and 7 system installers. In addition, it manages data for some 82 projects, across 8 regions. To accomplish this report, STF Analytics conducted continuous data gathering throughout the year. Data assimilation and consolidation in its Oil & Gas Submarine Cable Database