CIOs who work in the oil industry are used to seeing ups and downs sweep  through their IT departments. 

However, nothing could have prepared them  for the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic. This virus caused everything  to shut down and send all of their workers home. 

Now, after cutting  thousands of jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, oil industry CIOs are  accelerating their embrace of remote drilling and fracking, changes  that will reshape its workforce permanently.