OVERCOMING INFRASTRUCTURE OBSTACLES
COTEMAR
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“ Things are changing in Mexico because of the new Energy Law and Cotemar had the opportunity to invest the company which tendered one of the main oil fields in Mexico ”
— Marcelo Salazar , Innovation and Information Technologies manager at Cotemar management , as well as our newly oil exploration and production service ,” Salazar comments on this new beginning .
OVERCOMING INFRASTRUCTURE OBSTACLES
Given the nature of Cotemar ’ s activity , its operations often take place in remote locations with difficult access to telecommunications . This has been challenging for Salazar , who had to develop a strategy to improve infrastructure and bring the company closer to the latest updates in connectivity and digitalization .
“ There used to be no Internet in our workplace , no network , there was nothing , so we ’ ve set our own network , we installed our own microwave antennas . We were practically creating everything from scratch because electricity was all we had there .”
“ Cotemar ’ s world consists of offshore operations where communication is a very complicated issue . For example , nowadays , we still don ’ t have fiber optics , all communications are satellite , which is considerably slower ,” Salazar analyzes the
JULY 2019