6 QUESTIONS WITH GREG BERLOCHER:

Talking Technology Trends with New Star Energy Services’ CEO

1. WHAT IS NEW STAR ENERGY SERVICES’ MISSION? New Star Energy Services is a telecommunication engineering firm that supports energy-related customers that need to communicate in remote locations and in harsh environments. Our mission is to design, build, install, and maintain high availability network solutions for offshore platforms and vessels, pipelines, midstream companies, fracking companies, and oilfield service companies. In addition to the Oil & Gas Market, we provide engineering, telecommunication services, and field support to the IoT Market.

2. HOW DOES NEW STAR ENERGY SERVICES PARTICIPATE IN THE SUBMARINE CABLE MARKET? As an engineering company, we focus on delivering the best solution for a particular customer’s specific needs. We work with a wide range of telecommunication technologies, including: radio, microwave, Private LTE, satellite, and fiber. Subsea fiber is often the best solution for delivering gigabits of data, reliably and cost effectively, to offshore facilities. New Star can provide FEED studies for energy companies considering subsea fiber projects.

We also work with partners to provide construction oversight and documentation.

3. IS NEW STAR ENERGY SERVICES CURRENTLY INVOLVED WITH ANY NEW SUBMARINE CABLE INITIATIVES?

Yes, we were recently approached by an international investment fund that specializes in telecommunication projects and we are actively engaged in a feasibility study for an international subsea project approximately 700 KM in length.

New Star is also engaged in terrestrial fiber projects in West Texas and New Mexico. Our customers require fiber connectivity in several areas in the Delaware Basin that are not served by fiber optic cables today.

4. WHAT MAKES NEW STAR ENERGY SERVICES UNIQUE IN THE SUBMARINE SYSTEM MARKET?

We believe that New Star is unique in the submarine system market because we have empathy for our customer’s customer. We have a 40+ year track record of success support customers in the Oil & Gas Market and are sensitive to their financial and operational needs. There are a lot of good engineering firms around the world but few have the extensive experience dealing with energy companies that New Star does.

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WHAT IS NEXT FOR NEW STAR ENERGY SERVICES?

Over the last 30 years, many energy companies have put a laser-like focus on one type of telecommunication service or another, like fiber or private RF networks, but that is changing. We are seeing a huge sea change in the interest in building hybrid networks. New Star has been actively involved in architecting hybrid network solutions that provide ultra-high network availability, while at the same time are extremely cost effective. We recently designed a hybrid cellular/satellite network for a 1,000 site IoT application and the cost per drop was only $31 per month.

The interest in the CBRS spectrum and private LTE networks is off the page. What goes unmentioned is that fiber optic connectivity if often the underpinning for private LTE networks. We have a number of these projects underway now and expect these projects to keep us quite busy for the next few years.

6. WHERE DO YOU SEE NEW STAR ENERGY SERVICES IN 5 TO 10 YEARS?

New Star will celebrate our 9th anniversary in a few months and, as the years have passed, our customer base and the size of the projects we now work on have both increased. We are blessed to work with an outstandingcustomer base and best of breed partners who can provide world class solutions. As the company’s founder and CEO, it is exciting to receive calls from telecommunication giants that have sought us out to team with on specific projects. Over the next 5 years, New Star will continue to grow our engineering base but will see significant growth in the Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) side of our Greg Berlocher is a forty-year veteran of the Telecommunication Industry, holding a number of executive roles. Over his career, he was worked for a number of high growth companies, including three INC 500 companies in the United States and one Branham 300 company in Canada.

Mr. Berlocher has a track record of success introducing new telecommunication technologies to the market. He was part of the team that helped launch the first Ku-band shared hub satellite service at the Houston International Teleport in 1986, and during the 1990s, he launched a vertical market at AT&T Tridom, selling 3,000 VSATs to the Pipeline Industry.

Mr. Berlocher is a subject matter expert in SCADA and IoT. MQTT, the foundational protocol of the IoT Industry, was originally developed for one of Mr. Berlocher’s pipeline customers.

Mr. Berlocher is the founder and CEO of New Star Energy Services (New Star), which is based in Sugar Land, Texas. New Star provides telecommunication engineering services to energy-related customers that need to communicate in remote locations and in harsh environments. New Star designs, builds, installs, and maintains high availability network solutions for pipelines, midstream companies, fracking companies, and service companies.

Mr. Berlocher has a BS in Industrial Distribution from the College of Engineering, Texas A&M University.