Harris CapRock announced plans to develop a strategic marketing alliance with satellite broadband provider O3b Networks, which will be focused on low-latency exploration and production communications capacities.
   Harris CapRock said it would add O3b Network’s new O3bEnergy offering to its portfolio for customers in the energy market. O3bEnergy hopes to provide oil and gas companies with latencies under 150 milliseconds, unlimited bandwidth and speedy data transfers of up to 2 TBs per day.
   “O3bEnergy will provide fiber-like connectivity to oil and gas platforms and search vessels,” said O3b CCO John Finney. “Oil and gas companies and systems integrators will be able to integrate the low latency satellite offering to get far more from their existing enterprise systems and operational budgets. We targeting the likes of BP with O3bEnergy, as well as 100 deep-water rigs worldwide in approximately 10 offshore locations. For an oil company like BP, we think we have a compelling offer which combines high throughput together with low latency supporting off-shore applications that will drive efficiency and save the operator money.”