Digital Innovations in Oil and Gas with Geoffrey Cann

The impact of digital technologies on gas stations is creating an uncertain future for the many thousands of such facilities around the world. What's to become of them in the low carbon   future? Duration : 9m 03s

The level of innovation in the # oil and # gas industry in Canada is at a level too low to assure the long term success of the industry. The industry must change direction if it is to reinvigorate its capacity and capability to change to suit these challenging economic times. Duration : 23m 40s A podcast from Digital Oil and Gas

The oil and gas industry is not immune to the big digital trends sweeping through society. The industry runs on digital information .It already has been " industrially digitised " through what the industry calls Operational Technology (OT), or the myriad of sensors on assets that provide operations teams with process information about operations. But consumer digital is intruding into both IT and...

Digital technology is advancing at a great pace , but which technologies could have an outsized impact on the oil and gas sector, particularly the high cost oil sands projects ? Canada is a technologically advanced nation , and we're facing some pretty tough challenges at the moment - all the right conditions for technology adoption. Duration : 9m 51s

Drones (or autonomous equipment ) should encounter a very receptive market in the oil and gas sector. Of all the digital technologies, drones will deliver superior triple bottom line benefits . Moreover, it is in many oil and gas basins' best interests to accelerate autonomy solutions. Duration : 9m 52s

The media doesn't take Trump that seriously but does take him literally , whereas his followers take him very seriously but rarely that literally. This begs the question: which of the new Trump administration's energy policies should Canada take seriously , which ones literally , and what should we all anticipate? Duration : 10m 24s

You've no doubt heard about bitcoin , a cyber currency based on a technology called blockchain ? Well, there's so much more to blockchain than currency , and it will eventually have a pretty dramatic impact on aspects of oil and gas . Duration : 9m 15s

There is a way to apply digital tools to improve supply chain collaboration in oil and gas field services. I call it UBER-fy. Duration : 10m 13s

Digital technologies are overturning one industry after another, so what should be the digital strategy for a typical upstream oil and gas company? Digital technologies are here to stay, they're evolving much faster than anyone can easily predict and they will have unforeseen impacts . They are already making an appearance in the upstream, and their business applications are instructive for how pr...

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 . Duration : 9m 43s

What are my predictions for 2017 in the fast evolving world of digital and its impact on oil and gas ? This podcast is a recording of a popular blog post from earlier this year. Duration : 8m 53s

Oil and gas companies have invested hugely in their enterprise resource planning (or ERP) technologies, but what is the future for these big backbone core systems in an increasingly digital world? This is the first in a multi-part series that will get under the covers of ERP systems and how they will evolve. Duration : 9m 03s

I've been kicking around the oil and gas industry for a couple of decades , and in all that time, we've made only a little progress against the same data issues . Well, change is in the air, because the next wave of business benefits driven by digital solutions will need solutions to these challenges. Oil and gas companies are going to finally step up to address these issues. Duration : 10m 21s

With all that's changing in global energy , board conversations around the top table at oil and gas companies should be pretty interesting. What are they discussing? Duration : 9m 46s

Oil and gas companies are sitting on a mountain of little-used data . What are 5 clever ways to leverage digitized data assets to make money ? Duration : 8m 41s

When might Canada's LNG projects get sanctioned? It will be a while yet, given market conditions. Here's why. Duration : 11m 16s

As your oil and gas organization sets out its digital roadmap , you will have to make some trade offs around your focus of time , reso urces and areas of investment . Here's a few of the key trade offs that have been the subject of my recent conversations with industry leaders . Duration : 10m 20s

What should the digital strategy be for today's oil and gas services companies , in an uncertain and shifting economy? Not your dad's gameplan, that's for certain. The wave of digital transformation unleashed by the constant advancement of technology is unrelenting and services companies are actually going to be more impacted than their customers. Duration : 11m 09s

Now that the oil and gas industry has wrung costs out of its structure , what does it need to do to keep them out, permanently ? Duration : 11m 08s

Some large oil companies are sending signals that Canada's oil sands may be heading towards an early exit. Can digital extend the life of oil sands a little longer? Duration : 9m 51s

The IEA recently asked me about what I saw as the key blocker and barriers to the digitalization of the oil and gas industry. Here's my response. Duration: 9m 04s

Blockchain technology is helping banks save money , helping retailers track food products and helping emigrants transfer money home. But blockchain could also help save lives, in the world of organ transplants. Duration : 9m 54s

The oil and gas industry continues to labour under a sustained low price environment, resulting in constraints on capital spending and pressure to reduce operating costs.  Developing a digital strategy is a key step in adopting new digital technologies that promise to help transform capital and operating cost structures. Here's how to go about setting that strategy. Duration : 6m 10s