Digital Innovations in Oil and Gas with Geoffrey Cann

52 - Venezuelan Digital Crypto-currency Coming to Oil and Gas

April 11, 2018 14:55 - 10 minutes - 7.23 MB

The Venezuelan government has announced their intent to launch a crypto currency, called Petro, backed by their oil reserves. How might this play out? Duration: 10m 16s

51 - Move Bits not Molecules - Transforming Oil and Gas Freight With Digital

March 21, 2018 21:31 - 9 minutes - 6.75 MB

The oil and gas sector moves a lot of freight as it builds and maintains its assets. Could digital make freight more cost effective and less carbon intense? Duration: 9m 32s

50 - How to save $3/barrel through digital innovation

March 07, 2018 15:36 - 10 minutes - 7.71 MB

How might an oil company improve netbacks by $3 using digital innovation? It sounds like a challenge, but is it? Duration: 10m 54s

49 - Converting Surplus Inventory to Cash (Taylor Assaly, President, IronHub)

February 28, 2018 04:26 - 19 minutes - 14.2 MB

Oil and gas companies have millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars of surplus inventory on their books, generating no returns. IronHub converts this lazy capital into cash for reinvestment. An interview with President and Founder, Taylor Assaly. Duration: 19m 13s

48 - Four Plausible Scenarios for a Digital Oil and Gas Future

February 14, 2018 04:25 - 12 minutes - 8.5 MB

Many in the oil and gas industry are wrestling with how their sector will shape up over the long term. How can scenario planning provide some insight for Boards and management? Duration: 12m 11s

47 - Rethinking Oil and Gas Turnarounds Using Digital

January 31, 2018 08:26 - 10 minutes - 9.81 MB

Oil and gas turnarounds could be dramatically transformed using available digital technologies. Here’s how. Duration: 10m 36s

46 - The Gamification of Oil and Gas

January 26, 2018 01:25 - 9 minutes - 8.97 MB

Applying on-line game techniques to oil and gas could improve health and safety outcomes, among other things. Here's how. Duration: 9m 40s

45 - How Real Is Blockchain for Oil and Gas

January 17, 2018 15:37 - 9 minutes - 9.06 MB

The slow pace that oil and gas is exploring the intriguing potential of Blockchain makes one wonder just how real the promise is. It’s very real, as evidenced by a recent field trial in Europe. Duration: 9m 47s

44 - Cloud Computing Has Sunny Future In Oil and Gas

January 10, 2018 03:48 - 9 minutes - 9.3 MB

Cloud computing is poised to make a big impact on oil and gas. Here’s my weather forecast for cloud - conditions are exceptional. Duration: 9m 59s

43 - Artificial Intelligence Makes Headway in Big Oil

December 13, 2017 15:18 - 9 minutes - 8.98 MB

Artificial Intelligence (or AI) is beginning to make some headway in the minds of oil and gas executives. What is AI and why does it matter? Duration: 9m 36s

How Big Oil Towns Might Attract Big Digital

December 05, 2017 16:03 - 8 minutes - 7.78 MB

A big digital outfit (and you know who) is looking for a host city for their second HQ. A couple of oil towns claim to be in the running. How might a Big Oil town persuade Big Digital to give them a look? Duration: 8m 34s

41 - What Big Oil Could Learn From Big Digital

November 29, 2017 11:24 - 8 minutes - 7.93 MB

A gigantic digital outfit is on the hunt for a second home and Calgary fancies itself in the running. What could Big Oil gain by having Big Digital on oil’s home turf? Duration: 8m 22s

40 - Oil and Gas Should Pay Attention to These Global Blockchain Developments

November 15, 2017 13:25 - 10 minutes - 9.53 MB

Blockchain technology is moving incredibly quickly. Which latest use cases look like they might play well in oil and gas? Duration: 10m 30s

39 - China's Drive to Lead in Green Transportation

November 08, 2017 04:18 - 9 minutes - 8.84 MB

Has China co-opted Elon Musk’s vision for an emissions-free transportation future? It certainly looks like it. And there are big implications for the global oil industry. Duration: 9m 30s

38 - How Blockchain Could Help Track GHG Emissions

November 01, 2017 02:15 - 9 minutes - 8.79 MB

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. Duration: 9m 19s

37 - When Will Oil Prices Feel The Heat From Digital Transportation

October 25, 2017 11:35 - 9 minutes - 9.27 MB

When exactly will oil markets feel the pressure from Tesla? Not anytime soon, but Tesla is just a distraction from the main show. Other digital technologies will change the car market long before electric vehicles make an impact. Duration: 9m 51s

36 - Will Oil and Gas Be Ready to Upgrade SAP?

October 18, 2017 02:18 - 11 minutes - 11.2 MB

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. The guts of SAP are getting a thorough overhaul, and the benefits on offer are real and substantial. But all industries will be upgrading so there’s no time to waste. Duration: 11m 56s

35 - How to Organise Your Drive to Digitalise

October 04, 2017 12:27 - 10 minutes - 9.57 MB

So, you’re considering a digitalisation effort in your company. How should you organise your effort? Do you embed a team inside one of your existing technology organisations (yes, you probably have more than one). Do you launch a new organisation? Do you create a hybrid team of business, IT and operations? Duration: 10m 05s

34 - What Oil and Gas Boards are Asking About Digital

September 28, 2017 12:03 - 11 minutes - 11.1 MB

Boards of companies in the oil and gas sector are suddenly finding themselves in the digital debate and are informing themselves through questions about digital. Here’s the questions. Duration: 11m 49s

33 - Could Toyota’s Assemply Line Work in Oil and Gas?

September 20, 2017 11:55 - 9 minutes - 9.04 MB

Upstream oil and gas companies routinely talk about becoming more like manufacturers. How about copying Toyota’s assembly line for field services? Duration: 9m 23s

32 - Applying Visual Analytics to Oil and Gas

September 06, 2017 12:56 - 10 minutes - 9.71 MB

What if a camera could not only record what it sees, but could also interpret and then take action based on what it sees? Could this capability be exploited in oil and gas? Duration: 10m 0s

31 - Applying Augmented Reality in Oil and Gas

August 30, 2017 12:43 - 9 minutes - 9.25 MB

Unless you’ve recently been hiding out in a sealed cardboard box (and not a Google Cardboard box at that), you’ll likely have heard of augmented reality and virtual reality; especially in their application as toys. But these virtual reality “toys” are being used to deliver real-world savings in the operations of oil and gas companies. Duration: 9m 36s

30 - Creating a Digital Twin of Your Oil and Gas Assets

August 23, 2017 12:38 - 9 minutes - 9.62 MB

One of the most exciting developments in digital innovation in oil and gas is the creation of the digital twin of an operating asset. Duration: 9m 54s

29 - Eight New and Exciting Digital Economies for Oil and Gas

August 10, 2017 18:14 - 10 minutes - 10.2 MB

Give some thought to these eight new and exciting digitally enabled economies and the impact they will have on the oil and gas industry. Duration: 10m 26s

28 - Applying Watson to Oil and Gas Challenges

August 02, 2017 12:26 - 10 minutes - 9.87 MB

There’s some pioneering work underway at Woodside Energy in artificial intelligence that has far-reaching implications for digital oil and gas. Duration: 10m 7s

27 - Impacts of Cloud Computing on Oil and Gas

July 26, 2017 12:33 - 10 minutes - 13.2 MB

Cloud computing is one of those exponential technologies that will have an outsized impact on oil and gas. Not only are most, if not all, new digital solutions based on cloud computing, some nifty solutions simply wouldn't exist without it. Duration: 10m 30s

26 - Survive and Thrive in Next Energy Economy Via Digital

July 19, 2017 12:36 - 10 minutes - 13.6 MB

European think tanks are forming scenarios on the race to the digitalisation of energy. Here’s some of the evolving thinking, based on a workshop I attended recently with the IEA. Duration: 10m 58s

25 - What European Think Tanks Think About Digital Oil and Gas

July 11, 2017 19:08 - 10 minutes - 10.2 MB

How do European think tanks view the digitalisation of oil and gas? In a nutshell, it will be big and it's coming sooner than you think. Duration: 10m 36s

24 - The Future of Fuel Retailing

June 28, 2017 13:00 - 10 minutes - 13 MB

When was the last time that your friendly neighbourhod corner gasoline station had a make-over? Thanks to Tesla, it's about to get another! Duration: 10m 16s

23 - Gasoline stations confront an uncertain digital future

June 28, 2017 02:57 - 9 minutes - 11.4 MB

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

1 - Hitting a Critical Juncture - Innovation in #Oil and #Gas Canada

June 27, 2017 19:49 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MB

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

2 - A brave new world - Digital Oil and Gas

June 27, 2017 19:47 - 10 minutes - 10.2 MB

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 OT and pushing all three into a new and positive embrace. Call it digital oil and gas. Duration: 1...