SES AMERICOM Earns Managed Satellite Solution Contract with West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo); SES AMERICOM's Creative Mesh Solution Will Allow Gas Pipeline Company to Remotely Monitor Seven Sites Across Four Countries.

PRINCETON, N.J. -- SES AMERICOM, an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges: SESG), has been awarded a multi-year contract by West African Gas Pipeline Company, Limited (WAPCo) based in Accra, Ghana. The contract calls for SES AMERICOM to provide a satellite-based communications solution for their gas pipeline. This managed solution will operate on AMERICOM's AMC-12 satellite via the Leuk, Switzerland teleport.

SES AMERICOM will be responsible for the purchase, installation and integration of the necessary equipment, as well as maintaining the network once it is fully installed and functioning. The network will enable WAPCo to monitor and control in real time, how the gas is traveling, to collect data on the gas flow, and to gauge the level of the gas in the pipeline.

SES AMERICOM is supplying a custom and unique mesh solution that will use equipment from the German company, ND SatCom (recently acquired by SES ASTRA), at seven remote site/delivery points along the pan-African pipeline. With a 2.4-meter VSAT (very small aperture technology) antenna stationed at each site, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) information will be collected at each site and directly linked to the other sites on the network using three TDMA (time division multiple access) satellite channels.

The WAPCo pipeline extends from east to west, starting in Escravos, Nigeria, and ending in Accra, Ghana. In addition to Escravos and Accra, the pipeline's monitoring sites include Lagos, Nigeria; Cotonou, Benin; Lome, Togo; and Tema, Ghana.

"To help the pipeline efficiently and reliably obtain SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), voice and data information, vital to efficiently and safely operating a mission-critical pipeline across multiple monitor and data collection centers, we designed a redundant mesh satellite topology network as the most cost effective solution," said Eric Diamond, SES AMERICOM Sales Engineer.

"SES AMERICOM, through its Enterprise Managed Solution division, engineered a mesh network design that will meet WAPCo's requirement for a complex, reliable, and redundant solution," said Brent Bruun, President of SES AMERICOM's Managed Solutions Division. "SES AMERICOM is strongly focusing on providing turnkey satellite solutions to the oil and gas vertical market - solutions similar to this that include selling equipment, configuring networks, on-site installation, and network management."

Located at 37.5 degrees W.L, AMC-12 is an advanced, high-powered C-band satellite that serves local, transcontinental and transoceanic customers throughout the Atlantic Ocean region. This includes North America, the Caribbean, South America, Europe and Africa. AMC-12 is high-powered, state-of-the-art, and offers unprecedented levels of C-band performance.

About SES AMERICOM

SES AMERICOM is a pioneer of global satellite communications and the largest supplier of satellite services in the Americas. It was established in 1973 with its first satellite circuit for the U.S. Department of Defense and currently operates a fleet of 18 spacecraft. As a member of SES GLOBAL, it can provide end-to-end telecommunications solutions to any region in the world via a fleet of more than 44 satellites. SES AMERICOM serves broadcasters, cable programmers, aeronautical and maritime communications integrators, Internet service providers, mobile communications networks, government agencies, educational institutions, carriers and secure global data networks. www.ses-americom.com

About West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo)

WAPCo is owned by the following companies/shareholders: ChevronTexaco West African Gas Pipeline Ltd; Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation; Shell Overseas Holdings Limited; and Takoradi Power Company Limited. The project dates back to 1995 when the governments of Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo entered into a Heads of Agreement, under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), for the joint development of the project. It is being driven by the shared vision of the four states and WAPCo to make available a clean, abundant, stable and cost-effective natural gas supply from Nigeria as fuel for power generation and industrial development in Ghana, Togo and Benin. The pipeline is expected to have a maximum capacity of 470 million standard cubic feet of gas per day. The pipeline project is expected to contribute toward the regional economic integration objectives of ECOWAS and establish a reliable energy infrastructure to attract further investments into the region.