Blog
22 Mar Digital and The Roadmap to Carbon Zero
Companies working in the energy sector are, or soon will be, on their own self-defined pathways to achieve carbon zero or carbon neutral business profiles. What does this even mean?
15 Mar In Conversation with Kenton Gray CTO Datagration
How can upstream oil and gas overcome its siloed processes and unconnected data to free up time for engineers, accelerate decision making, and improve decision quality, but without replacing everything? Through a platform approach to knowledge automation.
08 Mar Four Unexplained Things About Energy Transition
For all the talk about energy transition, many things remain unexplained. Here are four that puzzle me about how transition will work. At least they keep me amused.
01 Mar Ethically Driven Digital in Oil and Gas
For those interested in pursuing digital innovations in oil and gas, beware the ethical questions that lie just beneath the surface. Ethically driven digital is real.
22 Feb Creating the Digital Front Line Oil Worker
Digital innovations are slowly unleashing the digital front line oil worker, but are the workers ready to deal with the change?
08 Feb Digital ESG — How Digital Accelerates Your ESG Agenda (Part 2)
ESG and digital transformation pressures are hammering the fortunes of oil and gas, but digital can also help accelerate the ESG agenda. I call it Digital ESG. (part 2)
01 Feb Digital ESG – How Digital Accelerates Your ESG Agenda (Part 1)
ESG and digital transformation pressures are hammering the fortunes of oil and gas, but digital can also help accelerate the ESG agenda. I call it Digital ESG. (part 1)
18 Jan Getting Help For Your Digital Transformation
Your digital transformation likely requires people with specific skills that are unlikely to be in your company. So what skills do you need and where do you find them?
11 Jan You Lost Your Oil and Gas Job. Now What?
You have lost your oil and gas job. What should you do now?
04 Jan A Look Back At My Top 5 Digital Oil and Gas Trends To Watch In 2020
Last year I highlighted 5 digital oil and gas trends that I thought were worth watching. Let’s see how they panned out...
21 Dec Season’s Greetings!
If I could put some gifts in your stocking, here’s what you’d find waiting you on December 25.
14 Dec How Digital Can Help The ESG Agenda
ESG is an uber hot topic across industry and especially so in the energy world. Fortunately, digital innovations can help oil and gas companies meet their ESG commitments.
07 Dec Transforming Oil and Gas Sales Using Digital
One month into the first wave of the pandemic in North America, I argued that the way to sell to oil and gas customers was broken. Here’s how to fix it.
30 Nov Virtual Training Comes To Digital Oil and Gas
With group gatherings out of the question, but with urgent business needs still calling out for attention, how do you deliver high quality training virtually? Here’s my formula.
23 Nov Digital and Oil Geopolitics
Oil is used by some nations to project influence and power, and is a national security concern for most others. How does digital innovation alter the oil-infused geopolitical landscape?...
16 Nov In Conversation with Bertrand Groulx
How can digital technologies transform the work of the front line oil field worker, who is overworked, underserved and under equipped to cope with the increased workload? Hear from Bertrand Groulx, a tech entrepreneur, financier and educator, about upgrading the job of the front-line worker.
09 Nov Evaluating My Trump Predictions from 2016
Now that the Trump White House is fading quickly into history, it’s time to reprise my original post from 4 years ago about the Trump administration’s impacts on energy, and gauge the accuracy of my forecasting.
02 Nov How to Stay Career Competitive While Remote Working
Because of remote working, we are now all video producers and audio engineers. To be career competitive, we need to get much better at these new demands.