In just the last few years, some significant milestones have been achieved with offshore fibre.

BP’s Gulf of Mexico system was completed, connecting seven deep-water platforms to a 1200km backbone cable. This system now provides direct communications from each platform to BP’s Houston offices with less than 20ms latency.

Fibre has become essential for North Sea operators. The combination of CNSFTC, North Sea Com and Tampnet have covered the North Sea with fibre, with over a dozen major platforms connected by fibre and many more supported by radio links which connect to the fibre network.

Planning for fibre communications to West Africa’s offshore industry has moved past the concept stage, and fibre is showing up in a few other locations around the world. Many further fibre projects remain confidential.

In many cases, a long distance communications cable can be connected to a subsea umbilical (an existing sheath of cables running down to subsea equipment).

This means that the need for a new riser cable and cable ship operations close to the platform are avoided.

The umbilical can be installed using proven techniques by installers experienced in oil and gas field work.

The disadvantage of this approach is that the signal attenuation associated with the subsea connector may complicate the overall communications system design and the connector represents a potential failure point.

Is it possible for Valdor connectors to solve this problem? I think it's a possibility that Valdor will get contracts for the oil industry in near future. I think Valdor already have been approved there connectors in some tests for the oil industry.