Blog
05 Oct Post Pandemic Oil and Gas — Four Scenarios
How might the world of oil and gas gas unfold in a post pandemic world, given rising nationalism challenging globalism, and fast growing renewables challenging fossil fuels?
28 Sep Blockchain’s Value Depends On How You Do The Math
Not only does blockchain play well with other oil and gas technologies, it helps others deliver more value. One plus one really does equal three, but it depends on who is doing the math, and how.
21 Sep When BP Calls The Bull Oil Party Over
In a startling announcement last week, BP called peak oil demand here (well, either here now or perhaps last year, or in just a few months). Brace yourselves for the fall out.
14 Sep In Conversation with Brendan Boyle, CEO of Vintri
Recently I interviewed Brendan Boyle, the CEO of Vintri Technologies, on the importance of data quality and data integrity in this digital era, a future where data helps with social license and saves money.
31 Aug In Conversation with Brandon Ambrose, CEO of EZ Ops
I recently interviewed Brandon Ambrose, CEO of EZ Ops, a technology company, about the state of innovation in oil and gas for the front-line worker. This is an edited transcript of the interview.
24 Aug Stop Buying Digital. Start Being Digital
There is a difference between buying digital (the default position in oil and gas) and being digital (the default position of young people). Oil and gas must be digital to have any hope of attracting top talent in the future.
06 Jul Are Gasoline Stations Doomed?
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?
29 Jun Happy Canada Day 2020
Happy Canada Day! Here’s my top 10 most admired features of this great country. Have a safe holiday, whatever you’re up to.
22 Jun Transforming Capital Projects Using Digital
The oil and gas industry spends hundreds of billions each year on new capital projects. An effort by a group of international producers should eventually improve the efficiency of that spend.
15 Jun Digital Track and Trace Comes to Pipelines
Sometimes it takes a shock to a system to accelerate a change already underway. Such a shock brought the concept of track and trace to the infrastructure sector. We should all be grateful.
08 Jun Clear Out Your Hedgehogs
The collapse of oil prices and the ravages and the possibilities of the pandemic are becoming clear. Management in oil and gas should be going after those cute but problematic hedgehogs guarding the status quo.
01 Jun How Refinery Mergers Create Value Through Digital
If in these challenging times you’re able to acquire a struggling competitor, digital innovations are a compelling means to capture value.
25 May Memorial Day 2020
Wishing you an extra safe Memorial Day for May 25, 2020.
11 May Only The Low Cost Survive
I’ve been through many oil market cycles, and there is but one truth. Only the low cost survive.
04 May What Digital Feels Like to an Oil and Gas Professional
Oil, gas and services companies intent on adopting digital (and that means all of you), should be helping their employees deal with some uncomfortable truths and deeply unsettling feelings.
27 Apr The Time of the Digital Ecosystem is Nigh
Successful industries have successful ecosystems. Now is the time for the digital ecosystem to help reshape and reform oil and gas, and capitalize on the opportunity.
20 Apr A Post Pandemic Oil and Gas Industry Comes Into View
The outlines of a future oil and gas industry, shaped by the global pandemic, are starting to emerge.
11 Apr Happy Easter and Passover!
Spring is a time for renewal, and this year is abundant with good reasons for change. COVID-19 is knocking at the door, a global recession is in full throat, and oil markets are in shocking turmoil....