16 Aug The Rise of the Platform Solution
Platform solutions save time and money and improve business decision quality. And now there are even specific platforms for oil and gas....
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07 Jun Oil and Gas Runs on Data and Now We Need Data People
The oil and gas industry runs on data. Today, our industry is in desperate need of smart people who understand data and how to put data to work.
31 May The Battle For Data Is Hotting Up
The battle for access to data in oil and gas is seriously hotting up. It’s not too late to get in the fray.
17 May We Need Energy Assets To Be Built Better
The world is at the start of a golden age of energy infrastructure development. It is time bring all aspects of the energy asset build life cycle into the digital era by adopting the digital tools that have transformed so many other sectors.
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.
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.
17 Dec Data Wars – The New Digital Battleground in Oil and Gas
Data is emerging as the new unspoken battleground for oil and gas supremacy. Why is this happening and should it be a concern?
15 Oct Throw These Oil and Gas Orthodoxies Into The Bin
Digital innovations are upending some of the most deeply held and long standing orthodoxies of our modern life. Many of the orthodoxies in oil and gas are ready to tumble.
13 Aug A Unifying Framework for Digital in Business
Is there a unifying model to help decision makers sift their way through the digital echo chamber? Here’s my version.
28 May The Promises and the Problems of the Internet of Things
One of the oldest ideas in industrial automation is to hook up some device to a computer system to keep an eye on it remotely. What happens when we scale this idea up?
09 Apr How to Successfully Introduce AI Into Oil and Gas
As the oil and gas industry slowly explores artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, it will have to confront critical management issues that hinder faster and more impactful adoption.
18 Dec How Accurate Were My 2017 Digital Oil and Gas Predictions
Back at the dawn of 2017, I wrote up a set of predictions for the year. Let’s see how well I did in forecasting the digital oil world.
13 Nov Transforming oil and gas turnarounds using digital
Turnarounds will continue to be a critical part of the oil and gas industry for the foreseeable future. How could turnarounds be re-imagined in a more digital world?
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.
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?
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.
17 Apr Digital Energy: From Survive to Thrive
European think tanks are forming scenarios on the race to deliver digital energy, or the digitalisation of energy. Here’s some of the evolving thinking, based on a workshop I attended recently with the IEA.
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.
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.
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.
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