My guest, Jay McBain, is the Principal Analyst - Channels, Partnerships & Ecosystems, for Forrester Research.  In this episode, Jay expounds on ideas:  

• The biggest impact on the oil & gas services world will be software. 
• Why every company will become a technology-driven company.
• Why software companies are valued so much higher than other companies.
• Why channel partners are the key to delivering value in the next 10 years.

In this episode of Digital Roughnecks, we sit down with Mark Smith and David Conley of Clean Connect ai to discuss a new Colorado Regulation: Visual ECD monitoring.

The new regulation will require Weekly ECD Visual Inspections.

In this episode of Digital Roughnecks, we sit down with Steve Rutkovitz, President of Choice Cybersecurity to discuss:

• The Columbia pipeline ransomware attack.
• The ways to prevent ransomware attacks.
• How to your harden your IT infrastructure so hackers avoid your company.
• How to "backstop" your company in the event of an attack.

In part 4 of our regulation & ESG series, I interviewed Darwin Graff from West Country Energy Services, who outlines the latest updates to Canadian EPA and Alberta Provincial regulations.   Inside this episode, we discuss:  

• New Canadian EPA regulations.
• New Greenhouse Reduction Goals for Canada.
• Overview of Alberta's EMCRA (Emission Management & Climate Resilience Act)
• How to qualify for carbon credits to offset costs of new greenhouse reduction equipment.

In this episode, Mark Smith interviews John Kalfayan, VP of Energy at Hivecell, to discuss using intelligent edge devices in the oil & gas field operations. We discuss:  

• What problems do intelligent edge devices solve for oil & gas operations
• How to deploy and scale your edge devices, even if you're not an IT or networking expert
• How intelligent edge devices enable autonomous operations for oil & gas operators

In this episode, Mark Smith outlines 3 new proposed US legislation that will impact EPA regulations for all US operators.  I give you the summary of each bill and what I think will be the impact on operators in the coming months/years:   These include:

1. The  Clean  Energy  Innovation  and  Deployment  Act  of  2021 establishes that electrical generators implement Zero-Emission Electricity Credit (ZEEC) trading system in 2023.
2. H.R. 2801 –The METHANE Act of 2021 designed to reduce methane emissions by 90% by 2030.
3. H.R.1492 - Methane Waste Prevention Act of 2021 – introduced by Dianne DeGette (CO) – also designed to reduce methane emissions by 90% by 2030.

In part 2 of our "new regulations that impact every oil & gas company" series, we focus on OGMP 2.0 (Oil & Gas Methane Partnership).  OGMP 2.0 is a global, voluntary, association of 66 oil & gas companies that currently produce 30% of the world's oil & gas. 

 

In this episode, we cover:

 

• What is OGMP 2.0 and why should you care.
• What are the 5-levels of reporting and why our clients want to be first to hit level 5.
• How OGMP 2.0 will influence ALL other regulations.
• And, what you should be doing now to prepare for OGMP's global impact.

Episode 27  Inside this episode:

David Conley and Mark Smith of CleanConnect.ai sit down to discuss ESG & Regulatory impact in upstream oil & gas operations.

• We cover how state, federal, global and ESG regulations are impacting all energy producers.
• We cover how Colorado's new regulations are causing producers to operate in brand new ways.
• And what you need to do now to prepare yourself for coming changes.

In this episode:

• Andrew Richard discusses a brand new break-through technology called the Jointed Pipe Injector (JPI), that promises to revolutionize the well completion process
• The JPI enables 1-button tripping, replacing the 17 manual steps required by today's process
• The JPI is about to be released as a product after over a year of testing testing by the majority of the super-majors
• The JPI also reduces a driller's carbon footprint by requiring a substantially smaller motor to power the completion operation.

In this episode, Sarah Tamilrasan, the co-founder of SotaOG, shares how they use Energy AI to optimize existing real-time data to:  

• Achieve a 10x ROI by increasing the accuracy of meters
• Increase waste water pump efficiency to add $7M/year in new revenue
• Help achieve autonomous operations 
• Implement "smart blending" so that midstream operators are selling the highest value product
• Detects midstream pipeline leaks, so that you won't lose any product.