Connectivity · Energy & Resources
MaartenVerhaegh
Satellite connectivity only matters at the point where it changes what an operation can do. I work on the distance between the two.
Netherlands · EMEA · Offshore & remote assets
Geostationary · 35 786 km
Most people speak one of these two languages. I speak both.
Satellite people talk about the link: throughput, contention, orbital geometry, terminal economics. Energy people talk about the operation: uptime on a drillship, crew on a platform, emissions per barrel, the cost of an unplanned shutdown.
The interesting work sits in the gap. A network architecture is only as good as the operational question it answers, and an operational ambition is only as real as the infrastructure underneath it. I've spent my career on both sides of that gap — building indirect channels and alliances in enterprise networking, then taking connectivity into offshore oil and gas, LNG and mining across EMEA.
What I care about is the translation: turning a technical capability into something an asset manager can put a number on.
Medium Earth orbit · 8 062 km
Three things I keep coming back to
Multi-orbit is an architecture question, not a procurement choice
GEO, MEO and LEO get sold as competing products. Operationally they are design inputs: availability, latency, path diversity, and what actually happens when one path degrades. The decision that matters isn't which orbit — it's how the paths behave together under load and under failure.
For network and OT teams, integrators, service providersThe business case is never in the link
It's in remote operations, condition-based maintenance, continuous emissions monitoring, fewer people on a platform in bad weather. Connectivity is the enabler, not the outcome. Anyone selling bandwidth to an operator without a line to one of those outcomes is having the wrong conversation.
For asset managers, operations, HSE, sustainabilityWho owns the infrastructure critical industry runs on
Digital sovereignty stops being abstract the moment you trace a single offshore asset back through its network to whoever controls the space segment and the ground stations. Worth asking before it's decided for us.
For policy, industry bodies, boardsSpeaking
European digital sovereignty in critical infrastructure — Telecom Society
Connectivity in oil and gas — Satellite World Briefing
I speak on panels, at industry events and on podcasts, in English or Dutch. If you're programming something in this territory, get in touch.
Sea level · 0 m
Where the network meets the asset
Happy to talk about any of the above — or to be argued with about it.
maarten@maartenverhaegh.com