Digital Innovations in Oil and Gas with Geoffrey Cann

Today's podcast is a chat with Jordan Kyriakidis, the CEO and Co-founder of QRA Corp. QRA Corp handles specification and engineering data for projects such that it is consistent, well-written, and error free. Today we discuss their role in improving standards in the oil and gas industry and the challenge of maintaining clear specifications. 

Duration: 34m 05s

Today's episode is a talk with Glenn Kelley, the president of Muddy Boots Online. Muddy Boots provides a cloud-based platform for field operational data, allowing for faster and more efficient operations and compliance. Today we discuss how digital is impacting field work and why cloud is so transformative. 

Duration: 33m 55s

In the rush to exploit digital innovations, the oil and gas industry may not be paying close attention to the ethical questions associated with digital adoption. It might not be that obvious but there are indeed vexing ethical questions lurking behind the use of digital tools in oil and gas. I suppose these questions might be trivial in the eyes of the industry, but there is still merit in at least considering them as the industry evolves with the times.

Duration: 10m 53s

Digital innovations are slowly unleashing the digital front line oil worker, but are the workers ready to deal with the change? For the past 20 years, hiring practices for front-line oil and gas have been careful to recruit individuals with the requisite hard skills, and not the soft skills that best exploit digital. This will need to change in the near future. 

Duration: 10m 21s

Today's episode is a chat with Andrea Petrone, who runs AP Executive Coaching. After a long career in oil and gas, Andrea now coaches executives on change management and getting the most of of their business. Today we discuss the issue of change - be it digital or regulatory - in oil and gas. 

Duration: 32m 15s

Your digital transformation likely requires people with specific skills that are unlikely to be in your company. There are many ways to get the help you need for your digital transformation journey, and it starts with having a guide who can take you to the summit. But luck is not a good business strategy. To move your digital agenda forward, you need pick carefully. 

Duration: 11m 10s

This episode is produced with the help of Datagration.

As we can see from Amazon, Apple, Uber, and AirBnB, platform solutions are the future. They allow companies to implement change much faster. Platform solutions save time and money and improve business decision quality. And now there are even specific platforms for oil and gas.

Duration: 12m 38s

ESG (Environment and Social Governance) and digital transformation pressures are hammering the fortunes of oil and gas. ESG thinking has come about because traditionally, the production and consumption decisions that countries, enterprises and individuals make typically place a priority on short term and narrow criteria. But digital can also help accelerate the ESG agenda. 

Duration: 11m 28s

Because of remote working, we are now all video producers and audio engineers. To be career competitive, we need to get much better at these new demands. If you want to have the same impact in your new virtual and on-line world as you had in person, think of yourself as a video producer and audio engineer. 

Duration: 9m 32s

There is no better candidate industry for edge computing than oil and gas, and it's a wonder that the edge isn't closer than it should be. Legacy SCADA systems have become long-in-the-teeth, and new sensors and edge devices will provide new horsepower to remote assets. But what is Edge computing, and how will it come to replace SCADA?

Duration: 10m 30s