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31 Jul The Future of Work in Oil and Gas

Posted at 07:00h in operations by Geoffrey Cann 0 Comments

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It's not just robots applying for your jobs, writes Dominika Warchol Hann, in this week's post.

A shrinking share of blue collar jobs and the increasing reliance on foreign outsourcing are driving political debate and making blue-collar-dependent companies take note. As you’ll soon find out, the prognosis is for these trends to not only increase, but to accelerate due to the rise new ways of working. These new ways of working include the increasing prevalence of automation, crowdsourcing, onshore outsourcing and offshore outsourcing.

24 Jul Next Gen SAP is Coming But is Oil and Gas Ready?

Posted at 07:00h in ERP by Geoffrey Cann 0 Comments

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One of the bigger digital shifts that will take place in the next decade will be the mass migration of oil and gas companies to the next generation SAP. What’s in store?

17 Jul How To Organise Your Digitalisation Team

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So you’re considering a digitalisation program in your oil and gas company. How should you organize the effort?

10 Jul What Oil and Gas Boards are Asking about Digital

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Boards of companies in the oil and gas sector are suddenly finding themselves in the digital debate and are informing themselves through questions about digital. Here’s the questions.

01 Jul Happy Birthday, Canada!

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Canada turned 150 on July 1, and in honour of the occasion, here's my top 10 most likeable features of this great country.

26 Jun If Toyota Was an Oil and Gas Company, It Would Create a Virtual Assembly Line

Posted at 07:00h in business models, innovation by Geoffrey Cann 2 Comments

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Upstream oil and gas companies routinely talk about becoming more like manufacturers, but what does that mean, and why is this so hard to achieve?

19 Jun Seeing is believing: Visual Analytics in the Oil Industry

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What if a camera could not only record what it sees, but could also interpret and then take action based on what it sees? Could this capability be exploited in oil and gas?

12 Jun Turning Virtual Reality into Real Cash

Posted at 07:00h in innovation by Geoffrey Cann 0 Comments

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Unless you’ve recently been hiding out in a sealed cardboard box (and not a Google Cardboard box at that), you’ll likely have heard of augmented reality and virtual reality; especially in their application as toys. But these virtual reality “toys” are being used to deliver real-world savings in the operations of oil and gas companies.

This special post was written by Dominika Warchol Hann.

05 Jun Have you met my twin? He’s digital

Posted at 07:00h in innovation by Geoffrey Cann 1 Comment

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One of the truly great breakthroughs afforded by digital innovation in oil and gas is the creation of the digital twin. What in the cloud is that?

29 May Eight Digital Economies and Why Oil and Gas Should Care

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Eight new “economies” enabled by digital technologies have been on the rise. These have yet to make much of an impact on oil and gas, but they are coming.

22 May If Watson spoke Engineer, what would she say?

Posted at 07:00h in data, innovation by Geoffrey Cann 0 Comments

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There’s some pioneering work underway at Woodside Energy in artificial intelligence that has far-reaching implications for digital oil and gas.

15 May How cloud computing will transform oil and gas

Posted at 00:00h in innovation by Geoffrey Cann 7 Comments

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I was asked recently about the likely impacts of cloud computing on the oil and gas industry. They’ll be rather transformative. Here’s why.

08 May What will fuel retailing look like in the future?

Posted at 07:00h in innovation, strategy by Geoffrey Cann 3 Comments

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The whole fuel retailing experience is about to get an overhaul. Thanks, Tesla!

01 May Are gasoline stations doomed?

Posted at 10:17h in business models by Geoffrey Cann 3 Comments

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Have you ever wondered about the impact of digital technologies on gas stations? What’s to become of the thousands and thousands of gas stations in the low carbon future?

24 Apr How to build a digital strategy for oil and gas

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The oil and gas industry knows that it needs to step up its digital game, but with a lot of choices to be made, how do you set your digital strategy?

This post was written by Aidan McColl and Magesh Pillay.

17 Apr Digital Energy: From Survive to Thrive

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European think tanks are forming scenarios on the race to deliver digital energy, or the digitalisation of energy. Here’s some of the evolving thinking, based on a workshop I attended recently with the IEA.

10 Apr Digitalisation of Energy: A European View

Posted at 07:00h in innovation, strategy by Geoffrey Cann 1 Comment

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How do European think tanks view the digitalisation of energy? I participated in a workshop organized by one such organisation last week on the likely impacts and timing of digital on the energy sector. Background The IEA (the International Energy Agency) is one of the world’s premier...

03 Apr Intentional and accidental adversaries: Why collaborative innovation initiatives often fail

Posted at 07:00h in innovation by Geoffrey Cann 1 Comment

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Have you ever wondered why most collaborative innovation efforts in the oil and gas industry fail? Organisational and behavioural issues are to blame. This post was contributed by Tony Wood, Managing Director of Catalyst61.

27 Mar Someone could die: Blockchain in the highest trust situations

Posted at 07:00h in blockchain by Geoffrey Cann 1 Comment

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Now for something completely different. Could blockchain save a life? This special post is from my friend and colleague Dominika Warchol Hann.

20 Mar Can digital save the oil sands?

Posted at 07:00h in operations by Geoffrey Cann 0 Comments

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Some large oil companies are sending signals that Canada’s oil sands may be heading towards an early exit. Can digital extend the life of oil sands a little longer?

Blog

31 Jul The Future of Work in Oil and Gas

17 Jul How To Organise Your Digitalisation Team

10 Jul What Oil and Gas Boards are Asking about Digital

01 Jul Happy Birthday, Canada!

26 Jun If Toyota Was an Oil and Gas Company, It Would Create a Virtual Assembly Line

19 Jun Seeing is believing: Visual Analytics in the Oil Industry

12 Jun Turning Virtual Reality into Real Cash

22 May If Watson spoke Engineer, what would she say?

08 May What will fuel retailing look like in the future?

01 May Are gasoline stations doomed?

24 Apr How to build a digital strategy for oil and gas

17 Apr Digital Energy: From Survive to Thrive

10 Apr Digitalisation of Energy: A European View

03 Apr Intentional and accidental adversaries: Why collaborative innovation initiatives often fail

27 Mar Someone could die: Blockchain in the highest trust situations

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