Aug 19, 2026
Digital innovations are creating huge value for oil and gas, but digital landscape is setting the industry up for problems down the track.
Think of them as digital time bombs. Quantum computing will expose encrypted data that companies believe is safely protected. Legacy on-premise software is fast becoming difficult...
Aug 12, 2026
Energy superpower is a fine marketing slogan. In fact, lots of countries have stated their ambition to become the next energy superpower, but oddly, no one spells out what that actually means.
Fortunately, there is a rigorous academic definition for energy superpowerhood, which ranks the EU, the U.S., and China as...
Jul 29, 2026
Industrial AI is into a new phase. Agentic AI is software that can plan, reason, learn, and act with far greater independence than traditional automation. While the technology is advancing quickly, the oil and gas industry faces unique technical, regulatory, and operational challenges that make full autonomy far less...
Jul 22, 2026
It’s sad to say but wars create opportunities to apply new technologies in novel ways as the combatants seek to gain advantage over each other. The US-Israeli War on Iran is a case in point. If you’ve been monitoring the public airwaves about the war, you’ll have picked up hints about the role that digital...
May 20, 2026
Oil and gas companies are sitting on vast amounts of surplus inventory, often without realizing its true scale or value. Equipment purchased for major projects frequently ends up idle, and stored across warehouses and laydown yards, while tying up capital and incurring ongoing costs. While some of this surplus results...