Polycom^® Oil, Gas, and Energy Solutions

Telemedicine to Remote Energy Exploration

Most remote oil and gas exploration sites are home to dozens of workers for upwards of several months at a time. Aside from industrial staff nurses, there is usually scant access to more sophisticated medical professionals and services. When workers become ill or injured, the situation must be assessed locally or via the phone. Removing a worker from a remote site is expensive, and the time involved could mean the difference between life and death. Polycom HD telemedicine solutions offer vivid, lifelike images and instant access to medical experts so remote patients can be diagnosed quickly and properly.

Polycom Telepresence Solutions – Polycom's complete portfolio of high definition telepresence solutions, ranging from personal through to immersive telepresence, are ideal for numerous applications within the energy, oil, and gas sectors, from remote telemedicine to cross-functional or multivendor collaboration, to project management and quality assurance.

Polycom Conferencing Infrastructure Solutions – Bring production online faster, manage crisis conditions more effectively, while improving operational efficiency, with the industry's most advanced, scalable multiparty conferencing solutions. Designed to increase user adoption of video collaboration tools and maximize ROI, Polycom conference platforms deliver unmatched performance, flexible resource optimization, and high-quality user experiences to all parts of your organization.

Polycom Security and Remote Access Solutions – Extend your visual communication ecosystem safely and securely with Polycom® Video Border Proxy™ (VBP™) NAT/Firewall traversal solutions, removing communication barriers and allowing remote teams to collaborate more effectively over video.

Polycom Support Services – Polycom Professional Services and Support Services speed an organization's return on investment by helping to ensure a fast, optimized deployment and an efficient support system that maximizes existing IT resources.

Polycom Arena Partner Solutions – Polycom's ARENA Partner, AMD Global Telemedicine, is the leading supplier of medical devices and diagnostic peripherals to telemedicine programs and telemedicine solution providers worldwide.

Collaborative Communications and Crisis Response

Energy companies are continuously looking for ways to effectively manage communications with the multitude of third parties they deal with on a regular basis. Whether it’s third-party geology firms, pipeline engineers, or refineries, Polycom has a suite of products to help provide collaboration outside of the corporate network.

With workers on offshore rigs and properties scattered throughout disaster prone and sometimes politically unstable regions, energy companies look to improve operations, react to emergencies, and ensure the safety of workers. Solid disaster readiness plans must include provision for coordination with legal and governmental bodies, hospitals, and fire and police officials. Communication solutions are paramount to ensuring that proper resources are called to any emergency situation. In these cases, Polycom high definition (HD) solutions are meeting the need for fast, direct, and transparent communications with critical resources whether for telemedicine, training, or emergency response.

Polycom Telepresence Solutions – Polycom's complete portfolio of high definition telepresence solutions, ranging from personal through to immersive telepresence, are ideal for numerous applications within the energy, oil, and gas sectors, from remote telemedicine to cross-functional or multivendor collaboration, to project management and quality assurance.

Polycom Voice Solutions – Polycom voice solutions (desktop, VoIP, wireless) are ideal for a number of applications within the energy industry. Wireless phone users can now stay in touch throughout a refinery complex or power station with easy access to key resources and information. Push-to-talk features also allow real-time wireless communications. IP telephony allows high-quality, reliable communications between remote on and offshore locations, such as drilling platforms, refineries, and pipeline stations, at a fraction of the cost of traditional analog lines.

Polycom Conferencing Infrastructure Solutions – Bring production online faster, manage crisis conditions more effectively, while improving operational efficiency, with the industry's most advanced, scalable multiparty conferencing solutions. Designed to increase user adoption of video collaboration tools and maximize ROI, Polycom conference platforms deliver unmatched performance, flexible resource optimization, and high-quality user experiences to all parts of your organization.

Polycom Security and Remote Access Solutions – Extend your visual communication ecosystem safely and securely with Polycom® Video Border Proxy™ (VBP™) NAT/Firewall traversal solutions, removing communication barriers and allowing remote teams to collaborate more effectively over video.

Polycom Arena Partner Solutions – With the Frontline Communicator, Polycom's ARENA Partner Audisoft provides a unique, mobile, field-wearable video codec allowing operatives to wirelessly communicate with remote experts in an emergency operations center, providing them real-time audio and visual information to best manage any crisis situation.

Quality Assurance of New Site Geology

Streamlining and enhancing the quality assurance process not only saves time and money, it reduces errors and improves customer satisfaction. It can also safeguard a company's reputation. Polycom collaboration solutions are used for quality assurance activities such as product inspections; remote product tracking and validation tests; production line status updates and changes; and remote meetings with development, sales teams, and customers.

For the energy industry, the value or volume of a commodity is determined by the geology of samples collected at a new site. The ability to show an HD specimen to teams of geologists may reduce the time, costs, and decision making in determining whether a given site sample has specific qualities as well as to see how readily a commodity can be extracted and how difficult it would be to refine. Collaborating in real time without needing to physically ship samples to and from geologists and third parties can streamline the time needed to determine whether or not a site is worth continued pursuit.

Polycom Telepresence Solutions – Polycom's complete portfolio of high definition telepresence solutions, ranging from personal through to immersive telepresence, are ideal for numerous applications within the energy, oil, and gas sectors, from remote telemedicine to cross-functional or multivendor collaboration, to project management and quality assurance.

Polycom Conferencing Infrastructure Solutions – Bring production online faster, manage crisis conditions more effectively, while improving operational efficiency, with the industry's most advanced, scalable multiparty conferencing solutions. Designed to increase user adoption of video collaboration tools and maximize ROI, Polycom conference platforms deliver unmatched performance, flexible resource optimization, and high-quality user experiences to all parts of your organization.

Polycom Security and Remote Access Solutions – Extend your visual communication ecosystem safely and securely with Polycom® Video Border Proxy™ (VBP™) NAT/Firewall traversal solutions, removing communication barriers and allowing remote teams to collaborate more effectively over video.

Polycom Support Services – Polycom Professional Services and Support Services speed an organization's return on investment by helping to ensure a fast, optimized deployment and an efficient support system that maximizes existing IT resources.

Project Management

An energy company's ability to stay online as long as possible drives their ability to create shareholder value. With offshore or remote sites being built or existing infrastructure needing to be maintained, companies must be able to manage the tight timelines given or to ensure that a small problem doesn’t become a work stoppage.

Collaboration solutions help streamline any project, from product development to course preparation to event planning to construction. Looking at the product development process as one example, the benefits of collaboration solutions become obvious. In each product development stage or "gate," Polycom solutions help to reduce project timeframes. The result is enhanced communication and shorter project times (reduced time to market).

Polycom Telepresence Solutions – Polycom's complete portfolio of high definition telepresence solutions, ranging from personal through to immersive telepresence, are ideal for numerous applications within the energy, oil, and gas sectors, from remote telemedicine to cross-functional or multivendor collaboration, to project management and quality assurance.

Polycom Voice Solutions – Polycom voice solutions (desktop, VoIP, wireless) are ideal for a number of applications within the energy industry. Wireless phone users can now stay in touch throughout a refinery complex or power station with easy access to key resources and information. Push-to-talk features also allow real-time wireless communications. IP telephony allows high-quality, reliable communications between remote on and offshore locations, such as drilling platforms, refineries, and pipeline stations, at a fraction of the cost of traditional analog lines.

Polycom Conferencing Infrastructure Solutions – Bring production online faster, manage crisis conditions more effectively, while improving operational efficiency, with the industry's most advanced, scalable multiparty conferencing solutions. Designed to increase user adoption of video collaboration tools and maximize ROI, Polycom conference platforms deliver unmatched performance, flexible resource optimization, and high-quality user experiences to all parts of your organization.

Polycom Security and Remote Access Solutions – Extend your visual communication ecosystem safely and securely with Polycom® Video Border Proxy™ (VBP™) NAT/Firewall traversal solutions, removing communication barriers and allowing remote teams to collaborate more effectively over video.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – Offers expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.

Corporate Training

One of the major challenges for energy companies is employee retention at the lower levels. These are people expected to spend several months at remote sites, working long hours, with little contact with the outside world and few prospects to improve their position within the company. Several energy firms are looking to corporate training as a means to give some of these lower-level employees much-needed work skills and a potential career path within the company, thereby achieving higher retention levels.

The time and cost associated with planning and implementing a training session can be excessive. Recent studies have shown that close to 50 percent of all training budgets are spent on planning and administration. Collaboration allows interactive face-to-face training sessions to be given to a widespread audience without the planning, travel, and logistical issues associated with on-site courses. Students remain as engaged as if they were in an onsite classroom. Real-time interactive communication with collaboration (video conferencing in particular) ensures a quality learning environment without geographical boundaries. Remote instructors can participate without the costs of travel to and from a training location. With immersive video technologies such as RPX, instructors can teach a class as if they were in a classroom—standing up and roaming around. Using recording and streaming solutions allows courses to be streamed live or recorded, stored, and viewed on demand (creating a content library).

Polycom Telepresence Solutions – Polycom's complete portfolio of high definition telepresence solutions, ranging from personal through to immersive telepresence, are ideal for numerous applications within the energy, oil, and gas sectors, from remote telemedicine to cross-functional or multivendor collaboration, to project management and quality assurance.

Polycom Voice Solutions – Polycom voice solutions (desktop, VoIP, wireless) are ideal for a number of applications within the energy industry. Wireless phone users can now stay in touch throughout a refinery complex or power station with easy access to key resources and information. Push-to-talk features also allow real-time wireless communications. IP telephony allows high-quality, reliable communications between remote on and offshore locations, such as drilling platforms, refineries, and pipeline stations, at a fraction of the cost of traditional analog lines.

Polycom Conferencing Infrastructure Solutions – Bring production online faster, manage crisis conditions more effectively, while improving operational efficiency, with the industry's most advanced, scalable multiparty conferencing solutions. Designed to increase user adoption of video collaboration tools and maximize ROI, Polycom conference platforms deliver unmatched performance, flexible resource optimization, and high-quality user experiences to all parts of your organization.

Polycom Security and Remote Access Solutions – Extend your visual communication ecosystem safely and securely with Polycom® Video Border Proxy™ (VBP™) NAT/Firewall traversal solutions, removing communication barriers and allowing remote teams to collaborate more effectively over video.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – Offers expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.