{"id":86695,"date":"2010-07-09T01:21:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T17:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rignet-to-provide-satellite-services-to-seahawk-drilling-fleet\/"},"modified":"2010-07-09T01:21:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T17:21:33","slug":"rignet-to-provide-satellite-services-to-seahawk-drilling-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rignet-to-provide-satellite-services-to-seahawk-drilling-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"RigNet to Provide Satellite Services to Seahawk Drilling Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-08-10] <strong>RigNet<\/strong> has entered into a multi-year contract with <strong>Seahawk Drilling<\/strong>, an oil drilling services company in the Gulf of Mexico, to provide managed remote communications for its fleet of offshore rigs, RigNet announced July 7.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; RigNet will provide fully managed VoIP, FoIP, data and Internet access services across the entire Seahawk fleet, which includes twenty jack-up rigs in the United States. The deal also includes installation of communications infrastructure for hardware, including cabling, phones, modems and fax machines as well as software applications, bandwidth and network connections, testing and training and year-round 24-hour live monitoring and technical support.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Seahawk also is using RigNet\u2019s TurboNet service to improve the speed and performance of software applications running over its satellite links. RigNet, in partnership with Seahawk, will design and manage Seahawk\u2019s wide-area network connecting Seahawk\u2019s rig fleet to its Houston headquarters.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">McDermott Joins RigNet Board of Directors<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tApril 7, 2010<br \/>\n[04-07-10] RigNet elected Dirk  McDermott to its board of directors, the company announced April 6. McDermott represents Altira Group, a Denver-based venture capital  firm with a focus on energy investing. In addition to\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">RigNet Opens Service Center in Pennsylvania<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 10, 2010<br \/>\n[03-10-10] RigNet Inc. has  opened a service center in Williamsport, Pa., to serve the the Marcellus  Shale region and provide a higher service level to clients in the  Pennsylvania area, the company announced March 8. The service\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">China s CASC Planning to Compete With International  Operators<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJuly 2, 2010<br \/>\n[07-02-10] While China  Satellite Communications Corp. (CASC) is planning to use capacity on its  satellites to support a new DTH service in China, which could launch  this year, CASC Vice President Huang Baozhong told Satellite News\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-08-10] RigNet has entered into a multi-year contract with Seahawk Drilling, an oil drilling services company in the Gulf of Mexico, to provide managed remote communications for its fleet of offshore rigs, RigNet announced July 7. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; RigNet will provide fully managed VoIP, FoIP, data and Internet access services across the entire Seahawk fleet, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}