Digital Innovations in Oil and Gas with Geoffrey Cann

Pipeline companies lag other network asset operators in adopting the digital innovations that lead to greater autonomous operations. That could change.

Duration: 11m 25s

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

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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