Tampnet and Armada Partner to Bring Real-World AI and Advanced Compute to Offshore Energy

Combining Tampnet's market-leading connectivity with Armada's edge compute to improve safety and efficiency for offshore operators.

Houston / San Francisco, 25th February 2025

Tampnet, the leading provider of offshore high-capacity communications, and Armada, the leader in real-world AI and edge compute solutions, today announced a partnership to bring advanced AI-driven applications offshore. The goal is to enable safer and more efficient operations to companies within the energy and maritime sectors by integrating cutting-edge compute with the industry's most robust offshore connectivity. 

Tampnet provides the fastest and most reliable connectivity globally to offshore energy companies through its subsea fibre networks, private 4G and 5G networks, and satellites. Energy companies increasingly require compute at the edge to run AI-powered mission-critical applications. 

"Armada's full-stack compute platform is designed for exactly this challenge - delivering AI-powered insights directly where they're needed while minimising infrastructure requirements on platforms, rigs and vessels," said Elie Hanna, CEO at Tampnet. "Our spoke-and-hub architecture will be a game-changer for energy operations. With this partnership, Tampnet adds an AI powered platform to its Network Architecture accelerating digitisation for our customers." 

"Armada is built to bring real-world AI to the most challenging environments," said Dan Wright, Founder and CEO at Armada. "By combining our compute with Tampnet's industry-leading offshore network, we're creating a powerful platform that allows offshore energy companies to harness the full potential to their data - whether that's real-time AI on the rig or large-scale insights across multiple platforms." 

Launching two key solutions 

Tampnet and Armada will collaborate to new AI applications specifically designed for offshore energy operations, launching two solutions from the start of their partnership: 

• OpsSafety: Real-time worker safety monitoring, including PPE adherence, danger zone tracking, slip-trip-fall detection, and smoke and fire identification. This ensures companies can proactively address hazards, improving worker protection and minimising downtime. 
• OpsInsight: AI-powered analyses of unstructured sensor data to provide predictive and prescriptive insights that help companies optimise for performance, enhance operations, and make smarter, data-driven decisions. 

AI and compute for offshore operations 

To achieve this, Tampnet and Armada have designed an innovative spoke-and-hub architecture that balances on-rig processing with scalable on-shore compute:

• Armada Galleon (On-Shore Hub): Mobile, powerful AI and compute infrastructure located on land, connected to multiple offshore rigs via private 5G or Tampnet-operated fibre. This enables scalable compute for applications that require cross-rig insights while reducing the hardware footprint on the platforms themselves. 
• On-Rig Compute (Spokes): Smaller racks of Armada's compute infrastructure will be deployed on offshore rigs, allowing critical real-time AI applications to run locally for safety monitoring, anomaly detection, and operational automation. 

 This architecture provides the best of both worlds: 

• AI applications that require real-time, continuous processing (likely safety monitoring) run directly on the rig. 
• More compute-intensive applications that analyse data across multiple rigs or require additional power can be offloaded to the Galleon, while saving costs over running the applications in the cloud. 

For energy companies operating multiple offshore platforms, the ability to synthesise data across offshore platforms and rigs provides a significant advantage - offering deeper insights, predictive maintenance at scale, and better decision-making. 

For further information, please contact: 

Frode Støldal 
Vice President and Head of Market Unit Americas 
fs@tampnet.com

Armada
media@armada.ai