strategy
03 May Recasting Energy System Resilience for the Digital Age Part 2
We need resilient energy systems. Our energy systems need to be tough and elastic to recover quickly from events and mishaps. But we now need them to be a bit more adaptive and agile (Part 2).
26 Apr Recasting Energy System Resilience for the Digital Age Part 1
We need resilient energy systems. Our energy systems need to be tough and elastic to recover quickly from events and mishaps. But we now need them to be a bit more adaptive and agile.
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.
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)
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...
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
16 Mar How Boards Exercise Their Accountabilities for Digital in Oil and Gas
It is the Board’s responsibility to hold management’s feet to the fire in addressing digital impacts on the industry, but how exactly is that to be done? What should the board be monitoring?
10 Feb Rehashing The Big Issues From ConvergX Congress 2020 Calgary
ConvergX, a cross industry conference that helps enable technology transfer across industries, held its 5th Annual Congress in Calgary. Here’s the highlights from my personal perspective.
20 Jan Applying Digital to the EU Green Deal
The European Union has announced a sweeping Green Deal with far-reaching implications for oil and gas. Here’s my assessment of its impacts on the industry.