Digital Innovations in Oil and Gas with Geoffrey Cann

Today's podcast is an interview with Cam Barrett, CEO of Field Safe Solutions. Field Safe helps companies monitor their workers, including travel and logistics, for safety purposes. Their software seeks to give companies the peace of mind that their employees are accounted for in real-time.

Digital solutions offer new and innovative safety practices, and Cam Barrett and I discuss some of those in this podcast. We also look at the history of Field Safe and how the company came about. 

Duration: 19m 19s

Are you wondering if you should invest any of your valuable time and money for some training on the basics of digital?

Introducing the world's first one-day masterclass seminar aimed at equipping you, the oil and gas industry professional, with the basics of digital. 

Duration: 6m 47s

You don't need to take in Disney's latest Star Wars installments to see robots battling robots. Just pay a visit to the cyber desk of an energy company. 

The US Department of Homeland Security believes that over 50% of all cyber attacks from 2015 to 2019 have been aimed at energy infrastructure. If your company is not already bringing digital tools to the combat, you're showing up with a butter knife to a fire fight.

Duration: 11m 51s

In today's episode of Digital Oil and Gas, I'm happy to introduce Cory Bergh, the VP of Financial and Information services at NAL Resources. Also with us is Michele Taylor of Digitalgirl and IQM Management, who is helping me run my Bits, Bytes, and Barrels 101 training course.

This podcast is on the topic of digital training, it's importance in the new Oil and Gas industry, and the impacts digital will have on the working world. We'll also get a brief look into NAL, one of the Oil and Gas sector's digital leaders. 

Duration: 33m 05s

With the latest ramp in media stories about Facebook exploring the use of blockchain for its platform, I thought it timely to revisit how oil and gas could take advantage of this technology.

Blockchain is a digital solution to one of modern society's basic problems – that we can't always trust everyone, or that we shouldn't. Here's a handful of ways blockchain could be pressed into service in oil and gas.

Duration: 10m 38s

Many digital companies seem trapped in a never-ending cycle of pilot projects and trials with oil and gas companies that never progress beyond the pilot stage to full deployment. Pilots and field trials are really valuable for digital technology start ups, but without some changes, we will continue to see a steady stream of never-ending pilots.

Duration: 11m 34s

At the Global Petroleum Show in Calgary I fielded lots of questions about digital in oil and gas, but this was the number one question, and it's not what you think.

First off, I'm very grateful for the team at EnergyNow who invited me to attend the Global Petroleum Show as their guest, hold a place of honour at their large booth and sign copies of my book.

Two book buyers posed the hardest question of all, which takes considerable time to answer. 

Duration: 10m 09s

The first problem that oil and gas companies must address to advance with digital innovations is to close the gap in understanding the opportunity and the threat from digital. Unsurprisingly, I found that there are no boot camp training courses on digital innovation that is specific to the oil and gas industry. 

For this reason, I have created 'Bits, Bytes, and Barrels 101', a one day training course on the impacts of digital innovation on oil and gas. 

Duration: 10m 11s

In Today's special edition of Digital Oil and Gas, I sit down with Paul Boucher, the voice of the Audible edition of my book Bits, Bytes, and Barrels: The Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas. We discuss the voice-over profession, Paul's career in the field, and the challenges of audiobook recording. We also provide a short sample of the audiobook for you to enjoy!

Paul Boucher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulboucher/

Duration: 28m 08s

The first challenge people working in oil and gas face in addressing digital changes in the industry. But digital is a confusing jumble of terminology, products, and solutions that are forever changing.

Introducing the world's first and only one-day seminar aimed at equipping you with a solid and comprehensive understanding of digital. 

Who knows? You might get in on the ground floor of the next big digital innovation that transforms the industry. Better still, you might even come up with the next big idea.

Today's Podcast is an interview by Michele Taylor of IQM, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/micheletaylor3755732/) and joining us is SAIT educator Lisa Bzdurreck (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-bzdurreck-310b2651/)