Digital Innovations in Oil and Gas with Geoffrey Cann

Digital technology is advancing at a great pace, but which technologies could have an outsized impact on the oil and gas sector, particularly the high cost oil sands projects? Canada is a technologically advanced nation, and we're facing some pretty tough challenges at the moment - all the right conditions for technology adoption. Duration: 9m 51s

Drones (or autonomous equipment) should encounter a very receptive market in the oil and gas sector. Of all the digital technologies, drones will deliver superior triple bottom line benefits. Moreover, it is in many oil and gas basins' best interests to accelerate autonomy solutions. Duration: 9m 52s

The media doesn't take Trump that seriously but does take him literally, whereas his followers take him very seriously but rarely that literally. This begs the question: which of the new Trump administration's energy policies should Canada take seriously, which ones literally, and what should we all anticipate? Duration: 10m 24s

You've no doubt heard about bitcoin, a cyber currency based on a technology called blockchain? Well, there's so much more to blockchain than currency, and it will eventually have a pretty dramatic impact on aspects of oil and gas. Duration: 9m 15s

There is a way to apply digital tools to improve supply chain collaboration in oil and gas field services. I call it UBER-fy. Duration: 10m 13s

Digital technologies are overturning one industry after another, so what should be the digital strategy for a typical upstream oil and gas company? Digital technologies are here to stay, they're evolving much faster than anyone can easily predict and they will have unforeseen impacts. They are already making an appearance in the upstream, and their business applications are instructive for how progressive companies view the role of digital in their business models. Duration: 11m 33s

How might blockchain technology solve one of the most frustrating and costly problems of the digital oil and gas industry? The sector builds new assets constantly, but engineering documents and systems that are supposed to accurately depict as built asset do not, leading to substantial costs and waste for the oil and gas asset owner. Blockchain could be a solution. Duration: 9m 43s

What are my predictions for 2017 in the fast evolving world of digital and its impact on oil and gas? This podcast is a recording of a popular blog post from earlier this year. Duration: 8m 53s

Oil and gas companies have invested hugely in their enterprise resource planning (or ERP) technologies, but what is the future for these big backbone core systems in an increasingly digital world? This is the first in a multi-part series that will get under the covers of ERP systems and how they will evolve. Duration: 9m 03s

I've been kicking around the oil and gas industry for a couple of decades, and in all that time, we've made only a little progress against the same data issues. Well, change is in the air, because the next wave of business benefits driven by digital solutions will need solutions to these challenges. Oil and gas companies are going to finally step up to address these issues.

Duration: 10m 21s