13 Mar Digital blockers, barriers and solutions
The IEA recently asked me about what I saw as the key blocker and barriers to the digitalization of the oil and gas industry. Here’s my response.
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06 Mar Oil and gas: From Kobe Beef to Ground Chuck
The last several meetings that I’ve had with oil and gas industry executives have ended with a variation of the same question: now that we have reduced our costs to match commodity prices, how do we keep them from rising again?
27 Feb Digital strategies for field service companies
What should the digital strategy be for today’s oil and gas services companies, exposed and buffeted by unbounded cost and productivity pressures? Not your dad's gameplan, that's for certain.
21 Feb Four key trade offs in landing your digital strategy
As your oil and gas organization sets out its digital roadmap, you will have to make some trade offs around your focus of time, resources and areas of investment. Here’s a few of the key trade offs that have been the subject of my recent conversations with industry leaders.
13 Feb Canada’s LNG projects: Another year, another delay
When might Canada’s LNG projects get sanctioned? Potentially sooner than conditions suggest, with a good overhaul. Here’s why.
06 Feb Extract value from your #oil and #gas data assets
Is your oil and gas company sitting on a mountain of little-used data? What are 5 clever ways to leverage your digitized data assets?
30 Jan Board Conversations in #oil and #gas get interesting
With all that’s changing in global energy, board conversations around the top table at oil and gas companies should be pretty interesting. What are they discussing?
23 Jan Overcoming data challenges in #oil and #gas
Digital solutions aimed at oil and gas will struggle against deep-seated data challenges that plague the industry. What can be done about them?
16 Jan Collaborating for systemic change in #oil and #gas
What new disruptive business models will emerge that will drive powerful and systemic change in the oil and gas industry? What can oil and gas learn from other industries where collaboration is thriving?
09 Jan ERP’s future in a digital oil and gas world
Oil and gas companies have invested hugely in their enterprise resource planning (or ERP) technologies, but what is the future for these big backbone core systems in an increasingly digital world? This is the first in a multi-part series that will get under the covers of ERP systems and how they will evolve.
03 Jan What does 2017 hold for digital oil and gas?
It’s customary at the dawn of a new year to make predictions you have no idea will come true. So what are my predictions at the dawn of 2017 for the world of digital oil and gas? This is tricky because it requires some predictions for oil and gas too. Here goes.
23 Dec Merry Christmas, Season’s Greetings, Joyeux Noel
Thank you for subscribing to Digital Oil and Gas this year. It's been a fun journey thus far, I hope you are finding the articles and insights of value. Are you curious about where we are heading in 2017?20 Dec Unlock billions from #oil and #gas capital projects, ops and maintenance using blockchain
How might blockchain technology solve one of the most frustrating and costly problems of the digital oil and gas industry? The sector builds new assets constantly, but engineering documents and systems that are supposed to accurately depict as built asset do not, leading to substantial costs and waste for the oil and gas asset owner. Blockchain could be a solution.
12 Dec Improve Business Performance in Oil and Gas Operations Through Standards Compliance
Digital technologies in Oil and Gas Operations play an important role in ensuring compliance to government regulations and laws, industry standards, and internal company policies. But how does compliance contribute to improving the effectiveness of Oil and Gas Operations?
05 Dec How Open Data Is Going To Impact Oil & Gas
To many, the open data movement is only about government transparency, but in fact, open data will impact the oil and gas industry as well, in ways that are not obvious but no less significant. Without action, the industry will be on the back foot.
28 Nov Digital strategy for upstream oil and gas
Digital technologies are overturning one industry after another, so what should be the digital strategy for a typical upstream oil and gas company? Here’s our view.
21 Nov How might team Trump impact Canadian oil and gas?
The media doesn't take Trump that seriously but does take him literally, whereas his followers take him very seriously but rarely that literally. This begs the question: which of the new Trump administration’s energy policies should Canada take seriously, which ones literally, and what should we all anticipate?
14 Nov Why drones have a bright future in oil and gas
Drones (or autonomous equipment) should encounter a very receptive market in the oil and gas sector. Of all the digital technologies drones will deliver superior triple bottom line benefits. Moreover, it is in many oil and gas basins’ best interests to accelerate autonomy solutions. Here’s why.
07 Nov How to Uberize Oil and Gas Field Services Using Digital Technology
Is there a way to apply digital tools to improve supply chain collaboration in oil and gas field services? Absolutely, and here’s how.
31 Oct What could digital blockchain do to oil and gas?
You’ve no doubt heard about bitcoin, a cyber currency based on a technology called blockchain? Well, there’s so much more to blockchain than currency, and it will eventually have a pretty dramatic impact on aspects of oil and gas. Curious? Read on.