18 Sep Global Blockchain Developments and Implications for Oil and Gas
Blockchain technology is moving incredibly quickly. Which latest use cases look like they might play well in oil and gas?
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11 Sep China Leads World in Drive to Green Transportation
Has China co-opted Elon Musk’s vision for an emissions-free transportation future? It certainly looks like it. And there are big implications for the global oil industry.
04 Sep How the Digital Oil and Gas Logo Came to Be
Are you curious about the meaning behind the logo for Digital Oil and Gas, and how we landed on this design? It’s not an accident.
28 Aug How blockchain could ease emissions tracking
Blockchain could be a nifty solution to tracking and taxing carbon emissions - a problem facing oil and gas, as well as the rest of Canadian industry. Here’s how.
21 Aug When will digital transportation impact oil markets?
When exactly will oil markets feel the pressure from Tesla? Not anytime soon, but Tesla is just a distraction from the main show.
14 Aug Canada runs LNG marathon while gas world sprints
Canada is ruining its chances to build a world-class liquefied natural gas export industry (LNG) as markets and other suppliers sprint ahead.
31 Jul The Future of Work in Oil and Gas
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?
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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?
The whole fuel retailing experience is about to get an overhaul. Thanks, Tesla!
01 May 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?