Our Role in Oil & Gas
As an industry that fuels our energy needs, Oil and Gas businesses have unique requirements for communication and the monitoring and control of petroleum assets. Reliable communication from production, storage, and transfer sites is essential to keeping costs low, operations efficient, and workers safe.
We offer tower solutions for Oil and Gas companies, including a vast array of secure infrastructure sites, to extend your network all the way to drills, rigs, and pipelines in the remotest, hardest-to-reach locations in the country. Whether you work in the upstream, midstream, or downstream sector, your business needs to ensure the lines of communication are open and available. We offer services and solutions that help you streamline network operations to better manage costs.
The State of the Industry
~680
Oil & Gas rigs in the U.S.1
Up to $250 billion
of value could be added to the industry's upstream operations by 20302
~5,200
American Tower sites in Oil & Gas shale play areas
1 OilPrice.com, “North American Rig Count, Drilling and Frac Spread Count Data,” last updated July 7, 2023 2 Ferry Grijpink, et al., “How tapping connectivity in oil and gas can fuel higher performance,” November 6, 2020
Oil & Gas Industry Challenges
Energy providers often have non-traditional requirements, including developing private networks or low-power, wide area networking (LoRaWAN) systems, which need access to infrastructure in rural, suburban, and dense urban areas. As Oil and Gas companies strive to improve and expand their networks in harsh, remote locations, they must consider the challenges that terrain can introduce, including signal propagation for proper coverage and fiber backhaul.
Key Offerings for the Oil & Gas Industry
The Right Infrastructure
We offer wireless solutions for the Oil and Gas industry, including communications sites across the U.S. With our experience and leading portfolio, we help plan and deploy your wireless network efficiently. Our sites service metropolitan centers, suburban areas, transportation corridors, and rural locations to provide network coverage nationwide. We give you access to sites to backhaul more data from more sources, so you can get it to your operations centers for analysis as fast as possible and adopt automated monitoring and control systems.
The Right Support
Free your staff, so they can focus on core business priorities. Let our dedicated teams navigate the challenges associated with sensitive areas, such as the Permian Basin. Put our Radio Frequency (RF) expertise to work, selecting the right sites in the right locations and designing your network expansion in the most effective way possible.
Streamlined Network Development
We work with you on network design to ensure all required infrastructure and backhaul is in place for your deployment. We offer services to handle all aspects of the project—zoning and permitting, utility coordination, structural analysis, Architecture and Engineering (A&E), and project management—expediting your network deployment.
Backup Power
When considering a new network deployment, you must ensure your communications equipment is always on, no matter the circumstances. Our fully managed Backup Power solution hardens your sites to keep your network connected during outages—potentially saving you time and money.
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Communication Towers for Oil and Gas
Tower sites are and will continue to be the backbone of wireless networks. Our leading portfolio supports robust broadband coverage and capacity nationwide.
Services
Managing network expansion projects can be a complex and time-consuming task for your teams. Let our end-to-end, turnkey services for site acquisition, engineering, and construction management provide the resources and support you need.
Backup Power
Add fully managed backup generators to wireless communications sites to ensure your data continues to flow, even when power is out.
Solutions for the Oil and Gas Industry
Whether working in the upstream, midstream, or downstream sector, you can benefit from our extensive tower portfolio for deploying a reliable wireless network.
