Digital Innovations in Oil and Gas with Geoffrey Cann
382 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsA weekly podcast on the impacts of digital on the oil and gas industry.
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Upskilling In the Caribbean
July 05, 2024 17:37 - 36 minutes - 67.4 MBUpskilling of oil and gas professionals in the digital era is a topic everywhere, including the Caribbean island economies. Upskilling means the acquisition of new knowledge and skills, and in digital, this means topics such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, app development, and sensor technology. It's tough enough to acquire new capabilities and stay current in big metropolitan centers. Imagine the challenges in smaller oil and gas producing economies, such as those found in ...
From The Industrial Age to the Digital Era
June 28, 2024 12:30 - 43 minutes - 79 MBIt’s rare to hear directly from a business leader who has a broad range of oil and gas experience, coupled with a personal front-line role in leading digital adoption, but today’s podcast offers just that. Lewis Gillhespy is a former senior leader with Suncor, including roles as Global Chief Geologist, major asset developer, head of a major acquisition, R&D, and lastly, digital transformation leader for the subsurface areas. He describes how oil and gas companies are the children of the ...
Blockchain for Energy Carbon
June 11, 2024 12:30 - 32 minutes - 59.8 MBEmissions management in energy is in drastic need of improvement. Carbon management is not carried out in an auditable and transparent way, is not standardized for the energy industry. As a result, carbon measures are subject to misinterpretation, claims reversal, misstatements, and greenwashing. Trust in the industry has eroded. A number of leading energy companies embarked on a journey to transform the practices of the industry by adopting new modern digital technologies. Forming a conso...
Fuelling Consumer Loyalty
May 22, 2024 16:43 - 32 minutes - 60.4 MBThe world of consumer loyalty for fuel brands is undergoing tremendous change because of data. With the huge penetration rate of mobile phones, the rise of app stores, and always-on websites, fuel retailers have a new opportunity to create a tighter link to their customers for fuel and other services. Even in the Middle East, where fuel prices are historically very low relative to other countries, consumers are becoming much more price sensitive. To attract them to a fuel pump means more ...
Turnaround Your Turnarounds
May 08, 2024 19:22 - 41 minutes - 75.9 MBDescription Turnarounds, shutdowns and outages in heavy industry are key processes for keeping industrial infrastructure running at peak performance. Some plants, such as oil refineries, will plan and execute annual turnarounds, during which time accumulated work orders are tackled, substantial repairs or upgrades are executed, and regular maintenance activities are executed. LNG facilities, which are processing a much simpler and cleaner commodity (natural gas), might only experience a tu...
Tailor-Made Tech
May 08, 2024 12:30 - 32 minutes - 60.1 MBIn this episode, I’m in conversation with Serge Guzenko, Founder and CEO of Wezom, about custom code. With over 24 years of experience in the industry, Serge has led WEZOM to become an international IT company known for its innovative solutions and client-centric approach in developing custom code. Wezom is a global custom code business. I'm really interested in this niche and critical role of custom software development, particularly within the oil and gas industry. I start by asking Se...
Where Energy meets Facts
April 24, 2024 15:59 - 39 minutes - 72.9 MBWhere Energy meets Facts: Empowering People to Reduce Energy Costs The average western consumer has no idea how much energy they use. It’s not really their fault — the energy system was never designed to give the consumer visibility into their energy consumption. We even measure energy in many different and confusing ways. Gasoline is in gallons. Power is in kilowatt hours. Propane is in pounds. Structurally, energy companies are not incentivized to provide their consumers with data abo...
Propelling Procurement
April 17, 2024 16:58 - 34 minutes - 63.8 MBMarketplace Launched! The upstream oil and gas supply chain is about to get a much needed boost in procurement efficiency with the launch of a new e-commerce marketplace. Such marketplaces are very common in the consumer industry (Amazon being an example), but rare to non-existent in oil and gas. Despite years of investment in big enterprise systems, buyers of goods for the upstream industry still have to wrestle with supplier-specific ordering portals and search, complex and out of date...
Gas, Growth, and Green: Australia's Energy Transition Dilemma
April 03, 2024 12:30 - 32 minutes - 60.2 MBAustralia is the lucky country when it comes to energy transition. The country is blessed with ample non-renewable energy resources, including gas, coal, uranium, lithium, and oil. In addition, the country is bathed in sunshine, surrounded by coastlines and tides, and is largely empty, suitable for wind farms. The LNG sector is now incredibly important to the national economy. Australia is 20-25% of global LNG production, one of the top 3 largest producers, and operates 10 gigantic plants ...
How Satellites Expose Hidden Dangers
March 19, 2024 23:24 - 34 minutes - 63 MBAbout the Episode The world of geospatial analytics is transforming how we manage industrial infrastructure. In this interview with Sean Donegan, the CEO of Satelytics, we discuss the use of satellite data to tackle major challenges like methane leaks, water contamination, and infrastructure damage with cutting-edge AI technology. The traditional methods of inspecting linear infrastructure (pipelines, roads, forestry operations, power lines) by driving around or flying are outdated, cos...
Winning Your Pipeline Tariff Negotiations with Regulatory Analytics
March 15, 2024 17:51 - 32 minutes - 59.7 MBIn this interview with David Khani, we discuss pipeline tariff negotiations and how regulatory analytics can help shippers win big. Policies such as the Inflation Reduction Act are reshaping energy infrastructure, along with global events, such as the Ukrainian conflict. Natural gas market dynamics are changing rapidly, and systemically. Dave and EQT leaned heavily on Arbo to help with complex negotiations and understanding the growing demand for natural gas. Dave also covers how the F...
Where Are Oil and Gas Prices Going in 2024, with Andrew Botterill
March 06, 2024 12:30 - 30 minutes - 56.5 MBWhere are oil and gas prices going, and why. That’s the focus of this wide-ranging interview I had with Andrew Botterill, head of Deloitte’s chemicals and oil and gas industry vertical. Deloitte produces a regular price forecast for oil and gas, and we provide the context, covering the turmoil and volatility in global markets, heavily influenced by geopolitical conflicts and policy shifts. We touch on the adoption of sustainable practices, including hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuels...
How AI Tools Capture Hidden Regulatory Value
February 28, 2024 22:06 - 13 minutes - 24.6 MBAI innovations are helping transform regulatory processes by providing access to data that has been beyond analytical reach. AI tools such as ChatGPT, Bard, and CoPilot are revolutionizing how energy firms and professionals tackle complex regulatory data, especially in sectors like energy infrastructure. These generative AI tools ingest the huge volume of documents and commentary associated with energy infrastructure submissions to regulators (briefs, complaints, dockets, applications), prov...
A New Vision for the Oil and Gas Supply Chain
February 21, 2024 23:18 - 33 minutes - 60.7 MBIn the US lower 48 states, between $200 billion and $400 billion are spent in the supply chain every year and are still run with practices designed decades ago. The energy sector's supply chain is broken and needs a new vision to take it to the next level. In this interview podcast with Joshua Trott from WorkRise, we’ll look at the outdated practices of supply chain management in oil and gas, explaining why many projects go over budget and schedule. Josh is the Chief Revenue Officer of Wor...
Four Supply and Demand Imbalances That Foreshadow Energy Risk
February 14, 2024 19:52 - 12 minutes - 22 MBBusiness risks and opportunities surface whenever supply and demand go wildly out of balance. Energy transition is creating supply and demand imbalances in many ways. For example, the supply of clean energy infrastructure is lagging demand because of slow permitting processes. Sellers gain because the price point for green energy will rise to meet the demand. Buyers risk being unable to purchase green energy after they have committed to do so, or paying a much higher price. In this ...
How To Keep Your Digital Oil and Gas Job
February 08, 2024 17:22 - 13 minutes - 24.3 MBIf you’re working on a digital innovation when your oil and gas company has been acquired, you’re at risk, and you need a plan. I once worked on a major merger to create Canada's largest oil company, and I know how these mergers go down, and you don't want to be a victim. In this solo narration podcast I describe why mergers are happening now and why they'll continue, how to tell if you're at risk, and what you should do if you are working on a digital innovation as part of your job. ...
How Digital Twin Technology Is Evolving to Full Interoperability
January 31, 2024 19:50 - 30 minutes - 56.7 MBDigital twin solutions are rapidly advancing to a point where the model will be running tightly coupled with the actual asset it models, using live data. It’s not a stretch to see how the digital twin can become the day-to-day supervisor of the actual asset. This kind of work even applies to brownfield assets that predate the internet, mobility, cloud computing, and other modern inventions. Connect with the Guest: 👉 David Reinhart : https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidreinhart/ 👉 Visionai...
Top 4 Digital Oil and Gas Projections for 2024
January 25, 2024 05:11 - 13 minutes - 25.1 MBEvery year at this time I put forth my outlook for the coming year, with a focus on the digital trends that I believe will have the greatest impact on the fortunes of the industry. These are not so much as predictions, as they are speculations on the trends that I see marching along, and how those trend lines will play out over the next 12 months or so. If you’re working in industry, you might keep these in mind as you consider your projects and investments in the coming year. If you a...
Ammar Sabbagh on Private 5G Networks
December 19, 2023 16:15 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MB"First thing you need to connect the assets first and get the data. So that's we call it like static digital twin, and then you can use it for simulation. Then you move to the second version, which having like a shadow, digital twin, which you have an image of what's happening, but you can monitor. But the truly digital twin is monitor and control." In this episode, I’m in conversation with Ammar Sabbagh who is the Vice President Industry and Partnership for Private Networks for Oil and Ga...
Pacesetters Run on Private 5G Networks. You Should Too
December 14, 2023 12:30 - 14 minutes - 19.7 MBTo break free of the limitations of yesterday’s technologies, the oil and gas industry is accelerating its adoption of private 5G networks. Some time ago, I helped an oil field logistics company respond to customer feedback that its services were “in the Stone Age”. Its systems were entirely manual, inaccurate, slow, and error prone. Virtually every invoice was disputed, causing cash flow problems. Worse, its multi-year contracts were coming up for renegotiation, and there was a real risk ...
Clark Lai on How Generative AI is Transforming Oil and Gas
December 06, 2023 12:30 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MB"We really kind of focus on the data and analytics side, really helping identify challenges where innovative data solutions, machine learning and AI technologies can be leveraged to drive more data driven insights." In this episode, I’m in conversation with Clark Lai, the CEO of Motiv Innovation Group. Clark’s team helps businesses apply data analytics, machine learning and AI tools to some of their more intractable problems. A great example is letting generative AI models feast on proprie...
Howard Crosby on Applying New Tricks to Old Dogs to Discover Oil
November 29, 2023 15:08 - 34 minutes - 46.9 MB"There's been a real reluctance on the part of operators to jump back in to some of these higher-cost opportunities. That's further constraining exploration and development of supply." In this episode, I’m in conversation with Howard Crosby, the Founder and CEO of LGX Energy Corporation. Howard and a partner acquired an oil company in Indiana and the acquisition included some 400 miles of 2D seismic data that had been shot some 15 years earlier, but never processed. By putting this old da...
Dispatch This Halloween’s Digital Demons
November 23, 2023 12:30 - 11 minutes - 16 MBHalloween. A gory and ghastly night of ghouls, ghosts, and goblins. And as with previous years marking All Souls, I reflect on the latest digital demons molesting the oil and gas industry, how best to exorcise them, and how to speedily return them to the land of the undead. When you open the front door to this season’s mob of treat-hunting ghouls, just remember that your work world is not only facing its own cyber spooks at the gate. There’s a better than even chance that you have more tha...
Making Legacy Engineering Data Sweat
November 16, 2023 12:30 - 12 minutes - 16.6 MBA pioneering application of artificial intelligence at Woodside Energy is finally ready for wider deployment in oil and gas. I learned about this use case back in 2016, at APPEA’s annual conference in Perth, where Woodside’s data science team presented their work. Surprisingly, few companies bothered to replicate this innovation, even though it was both proven and easy to execute. Many oil and gas facilities have been in production for decades, and want to be in production for decades...
John McDougall on Accelerating Carbon Cycles Using Synthetic Biology
November 15, 2023 12:30 - 35 minutes - 49 MB"Aviation fuel because it is a big amount of emissions, roughly 2% in actual measurement, but about three and a half percent in terms of impact. It's not likely to change because you need high density fuels, so batteries aren't going to work for long haul flights. And 90% of aviation is long haul flights." In this episode, I’m in conversation with John McDougall, who is the CEO and founder of SynBioBlox Innovations, a company seeking to solve the global emissions problem by applying synthe...
Meet The Digital Doubters Head On
November 09, 2023 12:30 - 11 minutes - 16.3 MBIf you want to be a successful digital leader, you need to be able to sell your ideas to a reluctant oil and gas buyer. Selling is so innately human we don’t even know when we’re selling or being sold. Have you ever been to a restaurant and found yourself ordering something you would usually not ever have at home, like some decadent dessert? The end of the main meal arrives and the server kindly brings you a fresh menu already open to the dessert page. They innocently ask “can I tempt you...
Wendy Hamelin on Code Control and The Risks of Digital Adoption
November 08, 2023 12:30 - 32 minutes - 45 MB"Turnover and mergers are one of the biggest disruptions in companies. So when you have that factored in, if you have someone who leaves the company, then everything that they've ever done, that human brain of knowledge as well and experience within that company is gone." In this episode, I’m in conversation with Wendy Hamelin, the CEO of Astraea Energy, an advisory firm in the area of high performance organizations. Wendy notes how there is a significant loss of organizational know how wh...
Corinna Frye on Talent Transitions for Energy Professionals
November 01, 2023 12:30 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MB"Those who are working in any energy sector right now are best place to be working in that sector in another 10 years, even if it's going to be on a different technology." In this episode, I’m in conversation with Corinna Frye, who is the National Head of Renewable Energy and Clean Technology, with LVI Associates. As a recruiter focused on the energy industry, Corinna has seen first hand the demand pull from the energy industry for talent, and the best positioned to satisfy that demand are...
Keep Calm and Carry On Refining
October 26, 2023 12:30 - 9 minutes - 13.7 MBCanada’s largest private oil company, and operator of the largest oil refinery, is carrying out a strategic review, which includes the possible sale of the company. Why would they do this? I grew up in Saint John, and had the privilege to work at this company for a few years. My extended family members who still live and work in the area, have reached out to me for a perspective. They are naturally concerned about what the sale of the largest business in town means for their future. Sett...
Insights From The World Petroleum Congress
October 19, 2023 12:30 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MBIn case you missed it, WPC24 took place recently in Calgary, Alberta, for the second time in its history. WPC itself was established way back in the 1930s as a forum for the global industry to discuss common themes on a triennial basis. As a global event, it attracts an audience from around the planet.. The voices discussing the global energy industry’s challenges included the Energy Minister from Saudi Arabia, and the CEOs of Saudi Aramco, ExxonMobil, Repsol, WestJet, Accenture, Pertamin...
The Rise of Responsibly Sourced Gas
October 12, 2023 12:30 - 23 minutes - 31.7 MBMarkets are starting to show interest in commodity products that are produced more responsibly, notably natural gas. The key is to be able to prove it, and that requires some changes. Customers and markets are starting to demand evidence that energy products such as natural gas are making a positive contribution to buyers’ emission reduction goals. Responsibly sourced gas will experience demand growth, rewarding gas producers for their efforts at reducing emissions in the industry. Digital...
Digital Transformation on the Route to Net Zero
October 05, 2023 12:30 - 13 minutes - 18.5 MBCompanies working in the energy sector are now prosecuting their own self-defined pathways to achieve carbon zero or carbon neutral business profiles. Digital innovations play a key role. As part of the World Petroleum Congress, September 17-21, 2023 in Calgary, I was on a panel discussion to discuss digital transformation on the route to Net Zero. By now, hopefully, all energy companies will have defined their own pathways to zero carbon (either absolute or net). Our goal on the panel dis...
Sculpting the Energy Worker of the Future
September 28, 2023 12:30 - 13 minutes - 18.7 MBThe energy worker of the future will require a different set of personal attributes than those normally selected for today. Energy companies may well find these attributes in short supply. One of my more interesting roles is the occasional advisory work for educational institutions on the skills requirements for the energy worker of the future. Since I research and write about energy topics, including energy futures, I do have an opinion on the likely skills, particularly those in the digi...
Oleksiy Golovchenko on the lessons learned from building a state of the art emissions inventory management system
September 27, 2023 12:30 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MB"Emissions combine all of the activities a company has. It's the tailpipe of the company, but it entails all of the activities that company undertakes." In this episode, I’m in conversation with Oleksiy Golovchenko who is a Senior specialist, EHS Data and Analytics with Ovintiv, a large North American oil and gas producer. Oleksiy has been part of a team delivering a real time emissions inventory management system at a highly granular level of detail across the full measure of the company....
Four Unexplained Things About Energy Transition
September 21, 2023 12:30 - 13 minutes - 18.8 MBFor all the talk about energy transition, many aspects about transition remain unexplained. I’m in the midst of a home renovation. The renovation should allow the house last another 20-30 years with minimal upkeep, and may well be our final home as we embrace the ideal to age-in-place. The renovations are extensive—walls are being opened up for the first time in 30 years, the flooring is being upgraded, and we’ve had to move out for the four months it will take to carry out. What’s remar...
Tom Sharp and Justin Carlson on the Permitting Challenges for New Infrastructure (Part 2)
September 20, 2023 12:30 - 34 minutes - 48 MB"I'm also a very strong advocate personally of a sort of an all in approach, meaning we aren't going to solve this with one magic silver bullet, right? If that doesn't exist, we need to develop these things over time." This is part two of a two part podcast recording with Tom Sharp, the Director of Permitting Intelligence with Arbo, and Justin Carlson, founder and Chief Commercial Officer of East Daley Analytics on the issues and challenges facing energy infrastructure projects, and some ...
Tom Sharp and Justin Carlson on the Permitting Challenges for New Infrastructure (Part 1)
September 15, 2023 12:30 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MB"There's a lot of different things that are plaguing infrastructure developers or have been for a long time, and they're all sort of coming to a head now." This is part one of a two part podcast recording with Tom Sharp, the Director of Permitting Intelligence with Arbo, and Justin Carlson, founder and Chief Commercial Officer of East Daley Analytics on the issues and challenges facing energy infrastructure projects, and some of the solutions. "We don't build a road that no one's goin...
Herman Artinian on downhole compressors for gas wells
September 14, 2023 12:30 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MB"We're creating a significant drawdown on the reservoir so we're able to get every last molecule of what's unrecoverable today that sits in the reservoir." In this episode, I’m in conversation with Herman Artinian who is the CEO of Upwing Energy, a company that has developed a compressor for downhole gas wells. One problem with gas wells is that they depressurize as they produce, which results in much of the gas (40% or more) being stranded in the well. "We are able to boost incremental...
Digital Is Finally Impacting The LNG Sector
September 07, 2023 12:30 - 13 minutes - 19.2 MBIf there is one industry that evolves very slowly, it would have to be the liquefied natural gas industry, and yet, digital is even making an impact here. As a digital nerd, I was alert to any digital developments at LNG 2023, but I was also curious what I had written back in 2016. At the time my weekly article series was called Fuel Up LNG, and chronicled Australia’s staggering rise from a gas exporting bit player to global LNG giant. I regret to inform you that not much has changed, re...
How Oil and Gas Goes Circular
August 31, 2023 12:30 - 13 minutes - 18.6 MBMy first exposure to the circular economy did not inspire confidence. My Mom, my brother and I were in the attic of my uncle’s home rummaging through an old trunk overloaded with castoff clothing that my cousins had outgrown. I didn’t appreciate it at the time, but we were clearly poor, and with 6 kids, there simply wasn’t enough money to buy new clothes. One of our most hideous family photos has us kids kitted out in fabrics I am certain were recycled from bedroom curtains. Necessity,...
Spatial Computing Should Find A Welcoming Home in Oil and Gas
August 24, 2023 12:30 - 15 minutes - 21.3 MBWith Apple’s new Vision Pro hitting the news, and changing the perception of computing to include a spatial dimension, it’s worth reflecting on where and how this clever new technology could be used in oil and gas. Apple’s latest product, spatial computing, is long on nifty and clever, but short on a must have new feature worth paying the price of a high end Mac Studio with a two hour battery life. Watch a movie in surround vision? Ok. Use your hands to manipulate apps instead of a mouse...
Rodrigo Liang on Using Enterprise Generative AI Tools in Oil and Gas
August 23, 2023 12:30 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MB"You better better know how to go with the flow." In this episode, I’m in conversation with Rodrigo Liang, the co-founder and CEO of SambaNova Systems. Generative AI solutions have taken the world by storm and will speed up industry by 10x. "What’s necessary for us to train these models, we need very, very large data sets. And well guess what? These cloud services and these large hyper scalars have been able to accumulate so much data, that now you have large enough datasets that are all...
Russian Claims of Pipeline Hacking Are Deadly Serious
August 17, 2023 12:30 - 13 minutes - 18.5 MBRussia’s recent claims about hacking a Canadian gas pipeline must be taken with deadly seriousness, and not just by pipeline companies, but Canadians at large. A document leak allegedly caused by a 21 year old cyber transport professional working inside the US security services contained a story that a shadowy Russian cyber team had successfully hacked into the operations of a Canadian gas pipeline system and with disruptive intent. The European nations with Arctic exposure have been in...
Accelerate Project Approvals Using Data and Analytics
August 10, 2023 16:10 - 16 minutes - 22 MBThe energy industry is very accustomed to seeking permission to do things. It is the norm in industrialized societies to set out the acceptable parameters for investment actions that can impact others, and to have project proponents follow a set of established regulatory processes. These processes take time, but they could be trusted to yield a predictable outcome for project investors and proponents. Until recently. Deploying energy infrastructure is an increasingly fraught endeavour i...
Why Russian Claims About Cyber Successes Are Suspicious
August 03, 2023 12:30 - 12 minutes - 17.2 MBRussian cyber hackers claimed to have penetrated the operations of a Canadian gas pipeline and caused some disruption. For those of us living some distance from the equator, mostly northerners, but also a few hardy souls in the south, interruptions in energy supply are rare, short lived, weather related, and almost always about electrical power. My friends in Houston, energy capital of the US, tell me that they frequently experience minor power interruptions, which we never hear about, bec...
What if … You Could Take An Apple iPhone On Site?
July 27, 2023 12:30 - 13 minutes - 18.6 MB“Wow!”, exclaimed Kelly, the site supervisor at the large petrochemical plant. “Are you telling me that I can take my iPhone onto the site? It’s safe now? What can I do with it?" Yes, Kelly, you can, IF you have the right phone AND the right case. As they are in our personal lives, smart phones are indispensable Swiss Army Knives of digital utility, and they will be highly welcome on oil and gas sites, petrochemical plants, and many other industrial sites besides. As Kelly well knows, t...
Shaun Syvertsen on Unlocking Potential through Better Adoption
July 19, 2023 12:30 - 39 minutes - 53.9 MB"The people that design software, are unfortunately often a long ways away from the people that are out in the field using it." In this episode, I’m in conversation with Shaun Syvertsen, the CEO of ConvergentIS. He has built a company around the opportunity to make a widely used technology (SAP) super easy to use–so easy in fact that users don’t need training, or very little. It all stems from the need to improve adoption rates, and it turns out that ease of use, reduction in fear of techn...
Apple iPhones Now Permitted on Oil and Gas Sites
July 13, 2023 12:30 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MBAs far back as 2004, I explored the possibility of deploying cellular phones within an oil refining complex. The idea of persistent and safe communications with supervisors and lead hands by phone or text message during the work day was intuitively attractive, and we imagineered many a positive use case. This was in the era of the BlackBerry mobile phone, long before Apple created the smart phone category. However, we ultimately abandoned the concept. A decade later in 2014, I was remind...
Legal Drugs In The Workplace — What Could Go Wrong
July 06, 2023 12:30 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBHeavy industry has long known that intoxication and some kinds of work simply don’t mix. Digital technologies are helping overcome the risk of hard-to-detect intoxicants on the job site. Worker safety is a VERY BIG DEAL in oil and gas. Moving equipment, pressurized vessels, high voltage, dangerous gases, hot surfaces, sharp objects, dark and wet conditions, drops from height, slippery surfaces, falling objects… the risks in the industrial workplace are manifestly greater. Employees need to...
Learning to Live with (de)Generative AI
June 29, 2023 12:30 - 15 minutes - 20.7 MBA quick trial of ChatGPT reveals its considerable strengths and its worrisome weaknesses in generating energy talking points. One of my many contacts asked me a rather simple question earlier this week: Why does Greenpeace not like LNG? My contact is from Germany, and presumably has lots of family members and friends there who have been living through Germany’s recent natural gas energy angst. As a thought experiment I wondered how a modern digital solution like ChatGPT might answer the ...