Digital Innovations in Oil and Gas with Geoffrey Cann

99 - A Panel Discussion on Digital Oil and Gas

May 29, 2019 13:00 - 10 minutes - 9.53 MB

I've recently chaired a panel discussion about the impacts that digital innovation are having on the oil and gas industry. I am invited to speak at many events, but I am particularly intrigued about this conference because it was virtual—it took place entirely online. What questions did the panel address? Duration: 10m 24s

98 - How Digital can Resolve the Carbon Conundrum

May 22, 2019 13:00 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MB

I accept the science of climate change and that human activity is having an effect on the climate. I also observe that the fossil fuel industry has been instrumental in bringing prosperity to much human existence. If your goal is to tackle climate change with all the tools at your disposal, what digital tools should hold a spot in your arsenal? Duration: 11m 27s

97 - 8 Ways that Analytics could Transform Oil and Gas

May 15, 2019 13:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB

Analytics are now de rigeur in many industries. Alberta’s oil and gas sector has all the characteristics to make it an ideal place to apply analytics to its key problems. In my view, there are eight big categories of performance optimisation available by applying analytics. Duration: 11m 21s

96 - How to Give Railcars Robotic Smarts

May 08, 2019 13:00 - 10 minutes - 9.48 MB

With the Canadian pipeline industry struggling to gain speedy approval for new infrastructure, the oil industry is turning to rail transportation. The rail network is very extensive, with lines reaching out into every nook and cranny of the country. Could digital innovation make a difference to rail’s performance? Duration: 10m 20s

95 - How we can Start Trusting Machines

May 01, 2019 13:00 - 10 minutes - 10 MB

We don’t trust machines…and we will need to change that. Kevin Frankowski, a specialist in helping companies with innovation, and I are exploring the evolving world of work. We see the early signs of how work is changing as we increase the level of automation in the work place. We question the readiness of industry to address these changes and the attitudes of workers towards rising levels of automation. Duration: 10m 58s

94 - How Will Alberta's Business Model be Disrupted Through Digital?

April 17, 2019 13:00 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

How susceptible is the Alberta business model to disruption from digital innovation? Much of my professional career has been spent toiling in Alberta’s oil sector, and the sector is facing a compounding set of headwinds that show few signs of eventual abatement. A few digital technologies will be key to helping the Alberta business model react to primary disruptions by targeting cost and productivity prospects. Duration: 11m 39s

93 - Data Will be the New Battleground for Oil and Gas

April 10, 2019 13:00 - 10 minutes - 9.96 MB

Data is emerging as the new unspoken battleground for oil and gas supremacy. The oil and gas industry is exceptionally data rich, and generates terabytes by the minute. Why is this happening and should it be a concern? I clearly see the emerging outline of a war for data. Duration: 10m 52s

92 - Survey your Team for Digital Readiness

April 03, 2019 13:00 - 9 minutes - 8.66 MB

How do you know if your organization is ready to embark on changes enabled by digital innovation? Why not collect some data?As you work on a digital strategy, you need to get a handle on how ready your organization is to cope with the outcomes of the digital strategy, and for this you need data. Duration: 9m 26s

91 - How to Give AI Wings in Oil and Gas

March 27, 2019 13:00 - 10 minutes - 9.31 MB

Algorithms, a kind of artificial intelligence, are going to struggle to get off the ground in oil and gas. New technologies introduce fresh uncertainties into this stable world. Here’s why, and what management can do to give AI wings. Duration: 10m 10s

90 - Digital and the Geopolitics of Oil and Gas

March 20, 2019 13:00 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Oil is used by some nations to project influence and power, and is a national security concern for most others. I can see digital playing increasingly into the geopolitical world of oil and with unpredictable effects. If you don’t pay that much attention to the shadowy world of oil politics, here’s a short primer of the kinds of things that international oil analysts consider, with the changes digital can bring to the table. Duration: 11m 46s

89 - Visual Analytics is About to Come of Age

March 13, 2019 13:00 - 10 minutes - 9.68 MB

What if a sensor could not only record purely visual activity in the real world, but could also interpret and then take action based on what it sees? Could this capability be exploited in oil and gas? Where would such visual analytics find a home in oil and gas? I see the key benefits in improving safety and compliance at lower cost, improving operational effectiveness at lower cost, and increase the productivity of the workforce. Duration: 10m 34s

88 - Digital Oil and Gas is Still in its First Innings

March 06, 2019 13:00 - 9 minutes - 8.77 MB

The oil and gas industry is clearly into digital innovation, but if this was like a baseball game, what inning are we in? I was invited to address ARC Financial’s CEO Summit on the impacts of digital innovation in oil and gas. They asked me how I would compare the adoption of digital innovation to a baseball game; well, I know a thing or two about baseball, so game on!

87 - Keynote at the IOT Conference

February 27, 2019 13:00 - 30 minutes - 30.5 MB

What is the future of oil and gas in an increasingly digital world? This technology paints an exciting and teasing future, but we need to embrace several difficult changes laid out in front of us. In today's podcast, I will present a keynote address that I gave to the Alberta Internet of Things Conference in Calgary this past week. In it, I talk about where IoT fits in to the Oil and Gas landscape, and what needs to change for it to really transform the industry. Read the transcript on m...

86 - How to Do Digital Innovation on a Shoestring Budget

February 20, 2019 13:00 - 10 minutes - 12.3 MB

What can small and medium-sized upstream oil and gas companies do to take advantage of a more digital world, if anything? Digital innovation is often portrayed as the purview of only very large oil and gas concerns, who have the big budgets, large teams and ample resources to devote to digital. It’s time to challenge that image. Duration: 10m 46s

85 - It's Time to Throw These Oil and Gas Orthodoxies Away

February 13, 2019 13:00 - 10 minutes - 9.77 MB

Digital innovations are upending some of the most deeply held and long standing orthodoxies of our modern life. Uber is just one example but there are many more. Many of the orthodoxies in oil and gas are ready to tumble too. Duration: 10m 39s

84 - Why are Humans Still Being Trained to Operate Dirt Machines?

February 06, 2019 13:00 - 10 minutes - 13.9 MB

When I was growing up, I always wanted to get behind the controls of some piece of earth moving equipment. I also recently watched training videos featuring augmented and virtual reality, and concluded that the training simulator in the video above has it backwards now. It teaches humans how to manipulate the arms of the machine, rather than having humans teach the machine how to dig for itself. AI and automation are the future. Duration: 10m 8s

83 - How to Revamp Your Oil and Gas Career for Digital Change

January 30, 2019 13:00 - 10 minutes - 12.4 MB

Once a week (it seems), someone asks me how they can transition their oil and gas career into digital. The upturn in prices has not translated into more jobs or industrial expansion the way it used to. By marrying your current deep know-how and skill set in oil and gas with the scarce skills of digital, you can create a unique combination. Duration: 10m 51s

82 - Interview with Brad Raabis, VP Pipeline Enterprise, Metegrity Inc.

January 23, 2019 14:00 - 39 minutes - 31.4 MB

This week I sit down with Brad Raabis, VP of Pipeline Enterprise at Metegrity Inc. Metegrity specializes in quality and asset integrity management solutions from the wellhead to the shipping terminal. In this episode we discuss the kinds of challenges facing the pipeline industry and some of the solutions that the industry needs. Duration: 39m 13s

81 - Bits, Bytes, and Barrels

January 16, 2019 13:59 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MB

Along with my co-author, Rachael Goydan, I’ve written a new book about the impact of digital on oil and gas. Called “Bits, Bytes, and Barrels: The Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas”, it is available on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca . It’s already been recognized as the #1 Best Seller on Amazon.ca in the Energy and Mines segment. This podcast is a summary of the book, what issues it addresses and who should find it of interest. Duration: 11m 27s

80 - Digital Innovation in the Pipeline Sector

January 10, 2019 19:37 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB

Pipeline companies lag other network asset operators in adopting the digital innovations that lead to greater autonomous operations. That could change. Duration: 11m 25s

79 - A Unifying Framework for Digital Innovations

December 19, 2018 13:07 - 10 minutes - 9.98 MB

I’ve been working at the intersection of Digital and Oil and Gas for over 2 years, and certain patterns keep repeating themselves—sensors generating so much data that they outstrip human-level tools to analyse, robots working optimally with high quality operational and commercial data, and cloud computing environments appearing virtually everywhere in tandem with digital innovation. Duration: 10m 54s

78 - Interview with Todd Luker, Zeel GIS Solutions

December 12, 2018 14:12 - 27 minutes - 25 MB

This week I sit down with Todd Luker, founder of Zeel GIS Solutions, in a conversation about pipeline integrity, pipeline monitoring and the challenges of managing large scale geographically distributed assets. Duration: 27m 21s

77 - How To Review A Digital Strategy

December 05, 2018 13:01 - 10 minutes - 9.51 MB

So you’ve been asked to carry out a review of a digital strategy, but you have no idea where to start. What makes a strategy “good”? That happened to me recently when a company asked me to do exactly that. Here’s how I approached it. Duration: 10m 23s

76 - Interview with Nav Dhunay, Serial Entrepreneur and Technology Innovator

November 21, 2018 13:00 - 18 minutes - 16 MB

This week I sit down with Nav Dhunay, one of Calgary’s leading technology entrepreneurs, innovators, mentors and company founders, on the power of ecosystems and why they are so important for start up success. Duration: 18m 13s

75 - Will Your Next Co-Worker Be A Bot?

November 14, 2018 13:12 - 9 minutes - 9.09 MB

Are you wondering what a bot is and whether the bots are gunning for your job? A category of digital technology called robotic process automation (or RPA) is finally making its debut in oil and gas. It’s not like this is a new invention—these kinds of tools evolved in the late 1990’s. But now they’re here. Duration: 9m 56s

73 - The Three Biggest Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Impact Oil and Gas

October 31, 2018 20:32 - 11 minutes - 6.56 MB

Artificial intelligence is already having three pretty dramatic impacts on oil and gas. First, AI is being applied to subsurface data and petroleum engineers are confidently expanding the amount of oil and gas that is recoverable. Second, AI is helping reduce demand for fossil fuels by transforming transportation markets. Third, AI is reducing costs and improving productivity throughout production, midstream and downstream. Duration: 11m 27s

72 - Agile Is How Digital Gets Done

October 24, 2018 18:47 - 9 minutes - 8.46 MB

One word that does not describe the oil and gas world is “agile”. Why is being agile suddenly something that the industry aspires to? Duration: 9m 15s

71 - Keynote for the UP Conference, Calgary — Digital in Oil and Gas

October 17, 2018 05:24 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB

On October 8, 2018, I was a keynote speaker at the UP Conference in Calgary, on the impacts of digital innovation on the oil and gas industry. This podcast is a slightly redacted version of my remarks. Duration: 48m 27s

70 - The Promises and Problems of the Internet of Things

October 11, 2018 01:13 - 10 minutes - 10 MB

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? Duration: 10m 56s

69 - Blockchain Could Be the Power Industry’s Killer App

October 03, 2018 13:39 - 10 minutes - 9.51 MB

Block chain could be a new killer app for the power utility sector. It will either kill the industry, or will be used by the industry as a killer app. Duration: 10m 23s

68 - When Life Imitates Digital

September 26, 2018 15:46 - 9 minutes - 9 MB

Sometimes the parallels between your day-to-day life and your workaday career are eerily curious. Take my recent day in Banff and the way blockchain technology is evolving. Duration: 9m 50s

67 - Setting Business Goals for Digital Oil and Gas

September 19, 2018 20:47 - 9 minutes - 7.99 MB

Boards in oil and gas must now take into account the wave of digital change that is impacting the sector, and help shape appropriate goals for management. Duration: 9m 58s

66 - How To Review a Digital Strategy

September 12, 2018 11:59 - 10 minutes - 23.8 MB

Recently, I reviewed the year-old digital strategy for an oil and gas midstream company, a tricky task that required some fresh thinking about assessing digital innovation. Here's how I did it. Duration: 10m 23s

65 - Managing The Risks of a Digital Transformation

September 05, 2018 16:48 - 10 minutes - 14.7 MB

Embarking on a digital transformation journey in oil and gas is not an easy matter. There are many risks to be managed. In this podcast, I discuss a few of the biggest risks and tactics to help manage them. Duration: 10m 41s

64 - Cyber Security Starts At The Edge

August 29, 2018 12:29 - 10 minutes - 23.7 MB

Cyber attacks are clearly a concern for consumer-oriented businesses, but what is the risk to oil and gas? Should we be concerned? Absolutely, but the risks are different. Duration: 10m 23s

63 - Your Next Car May Be On Blockchain

August 22, 2018 13:25 - 10 minutes - 23 MB

A German automaker has wrapped up some trials integrating blockchain technology into its sports car line-up. This has important implications for fuel retailing and robots. Duration: 10m 03s

63 - Your Next Car May Be On a Blockchain

August 15, 2018 15:03 - 10 minutes - 23 MB

A German automaker has wrapped up some trials integrating blockchain technology with its sports car line. What lessons does this offer the oil and gas industry? Duration: 10m 03s

62 - How to Introduce Artificial Intelligence into Oil and Gas

August 08, 2018 12:10 - 8 minutes - 20.2 MB

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. Duration: 8m 49s

61 - Oil and Gas Royalties on Blockchain

August 01, 2018 04:48 - 9 minutes - 5.01 MB

A consortium of Calgary-based companies has created an oil and gas royalty smart contract on distributed ledger technology (DLT), and executed a payment based on the smart contract. There were a few modest press announcements of this event, but frankly, the implications are far-reaching, and worth a deeper dive. Duration: 9m 10s

60 - How Exploration Can Get Its Digital Mojo Back

July 25, 2018 03:29 - 10 minutes - 7.43 MB

By far the most data intense function in the oil and gas value chain is exploration, but exploration is far from being digital. How might it get its mojo back? Duration: 10m 31s

59 - Build Oil and Gas Infrastructure Using Digital

June 27, 2018 12:32 - 10 minutes - 5.66 MB

Digital innovation applied to construction could make the biggest impact on the economics of new oil and gas infrastructure. Here’s how. Duration: 10m 28s

58 - How 3D Printing Disrupts the Oil and Gas Industry

June 20, 2018 12:15 - 10 minutes - 5.66 MB

Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing as it’s commonly called, is showing up everywhere, including oil and gas, but how will it disrupt the industry? Duration: 10m 20s

57 - How Oil and Gas Deals with Blockchain Risks

June 13, 2018 12:39 - 10 minutes - 5.87 MB

Blockchain looks like it will have lots of potential in oil and gas but what risks and barriers need to be surmounted to move from hype to reality? Duration: 10m 33s

56 - Cyber Security with Chris Ballem

June 06, 2018 13:28 - 19 minutes - 15.7 MB

Cyber issues are high on the Board’s agenda, with the rise of hacking incidents, identity theft, the proliferation of malware and ransomware, and the threat of fines increasingly frustrated regulators. In this episode, I speak with cyber expert Chris Ballem about the tactics that companies can take to improve their resilience in a digital world. Duration: 13m 13s

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