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Industrial-Grade 5G for Oil & Gas.

Field-Ready Connectivity for Hazardous, Remote, Always-On Operations. Oil & Gas sites are large, hazardous, and often remote (oﬀshore platforms, desert fields, sprawling refineries). Processes depend on mobile people, vehicles, and sensors that must stay connected everywhere, indoors & outdoors. Private 5G gives predictable coverage, secure SIM access, mobility without dropouts, and uplink capacity for video/sensor data at the edge, even with unreliable backhaul.

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Private 5G : Who & What It Connects

Personnel

Connected worker with ATEX 5G phones, gas monitoring badges.
Lone-worker protection : live video assistance, push-to-talk, geofencing, personal safety monitoring.
5G brings faster incident response and shorter “find-time” for people/assets.

Assets & Machines

Drone & robot inspections of flare stacks, columns, tank roofs, pipes.
Autonomous remote operations : tele-operation, remote valve / ESD control with prioritized traﬃc.
5G helps replacing rope teams and scaﬀolding for less exposure, fewer shutdowns, fewer trips to the field, safer night shifts.

Environments

Connected worker with ATEX 5G phones, gas monitoring badges.
Lone-worker protection : live video assistance, push-to-talk, geofencing, personal safety monitoring.
5G brings faster incident response and shorter “find-time” for people/assets.

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Field Deployment

UAE (national-scale, onshore & oﬀshore)

ADNOC + e& building the energy industry’s largest private 5G across 11,000 km², streaming data from 12,000+ wells/pipelines to autonomous control rooms; ADNOC expects $1.5 B value in five years (eﬃciency, automation, safety). Completion targeted 2025.

North Sea oﬀshore platform (Norway)

Tampnet deployed a private 5G + edge network on Aker BP’s Edvard Grieg platform—billed as the first fully autonomous 5G platform deployment; part of broader private 5G expansion on rigs.

Equinor (North Sea)

Telenor Maritime launched 5G coverage on oﬀshore installations to boost bandwidth and reliability—foundation for connected worker, inspections, and remote ops.

Brazil (oﬀshore + onshore multi-site)

Petrobras with Telefônica/Nokia expanding private cellular to 18 sites (11 oﬀshore, 6 onshore) as a step toward broader 5G; scope includes platforms, refineries, gas plants, warehouses, ports.

Business Outcomes

Inspection productivity

75–90%

time reduction for flare stack / tower / pipe-rack checks, e.g. : 3 days → 2 hours pre-turnaround, saving scaﬀolding and avoiding lost production windows.

Safer work, fewer trucks

~50%

fewer truck rolls & confined- space entries thanks to 5G-connected drones / robots doing the “dirty, dull, dangerous”, reducing rope access exposure.

Lower lifecycle costs

-20% Capex & -5% Opex cuts

enabled by digital / analytics programs with pervasive connectivity. Private 5G is the transport layer that scales those programs to the field.

Scalability across assets

1 singular network

for people, drones, vehicles, sensors. Easier to replicate from one site to 10+ sites.

Reference Architecture
What Firecell can deliver.

Oﬀshore platform

1–3 outdoor radios* for deck & accommodation blocks;
on-platform edge server for video analytics, robot control, ATEX 5G phones / routers, backhaul via existing microwave / satellite.

Onshore refinery/Chem park

Campus of 3–10 macro/small* cells (tanks, pipe racks, process units), edge cluster for AI/video, segmented data networks (safety vs. video vs. IT), push-to-talk & location for workers.

Pipeline corridor

Linear cells* along ROW (Remote Optical Watcher),
solar-powered poles where needed, IoT devices for low-power sensors, macro cells at stations, drone relay / handover for patrol.

* exact radio count depends on steel density, geometry and zones

Design Target & KPIs

Latency

10–20 ms for
robot/drone control

Uplink per 1080p
video

4–8 Mb/s (per stream) typical

Throughput per
site (busy hours)

100–300 Mb/s uplink aggregate (video + sensors)

Availability
target

99.9–99.99% for safety-critical comms

Density

Hundreds or more of devices per site (workers, sensors, cameras, robots)

What’s newly possible with 5G

Live tele-inspection

Remote expert + multiple camera feeds without choking the network.

Tele-operation / autonomy

On moving assets with handovers that don’t drop.

Unified, SIM-secured network

For people + machines across hazardous indoor/outdoor zones (with certified 5G devices for Zone 1/21 & 2/22).

Deployment & ROI Roadmap

Radio planning

Radio planning & site survey to confirm quote

Full site go‑live in 12 weeks

Hardware delivery & installation, SIM/eSIM provisioning, Edge/core configuration, Integration with robot fleet, Acceptance testing

Post delivery support

Training of customer to use Network Monitoring Interface + online & on-site support. Network upgrade based on needs.

In-house supervision

IT team manages network with Network Monitoring Interface or chooses a turnkey managed service

Next Steps.

Site survey & spectrum check (free)

Define requirements & connectivity needs

Approve BoM & SLA

Kick-off deployment window

Explore use cases.

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