Paratus Group and Ceragon Networks have entered into an agreement to provide high capacity wireless offshore communication solutions for Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique.
The multi-year partnership agreement will offer the three southern-African countries unequalled turnkey solutions in their respective oil and gas industries.
Ceragon Network is the global innovator and leading solutions provider of 5G wireless transport, and its technology for offshore assets is combined with the Paratus onshore network infrastructure to give customers fast and secure transmission of vital data.
By connecting offshore floating, rotating, and/or navigating infrastructure to the Paratus pan-African network through a specially stabilised live microwave link over distances of up to 100km offshore, Ceragon’s technology offers unmatched high-quality connectivity.
Paratus group chief technical officer Rolf Mendelsohn in a statement said: “By partnering with Ceragon, we will now be able to provide best-in-class solutions for offshore operations that need high capacity to transmit data at high speed and with low latency.
“Having worked with Ceragon for many years in Angola, this was a natural and logical evolution of our working relationship.
Our newly upskilled technical teams are now working with the Ceragon technicians to deliver this world-class solution in southern Africa, which signals a sea-change for the oil and gas industries in Africa.”
For oil and gas companies that have offshore infrastructure, high levels of risk prevail in a harsh oceanic environment, making reliable and resilient communications infrastructure imperative.
Reliable communications are needed to keep onshore monitors in constant contact with their offshore facilities.
The communications equipment needs not only to withstand corrosion and difficult conditions, but also to meet ever-increasing safety regulations, when, for example, operating the equipment in highly explosive environments.
Ceragon has an in-house certified solution which fully meets these stringent safety requirements.
“With this partnership agreement, we are once again strengthening and enhancing the Paratus offering in Africa and realising our goals to transform the continent through excellent infrastructure and customer service,” said Mendelsohn.
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