Data & Analytics
2026 TWA Energy Influencer Muhammad Karimi shares how he transformed academic research into a globally deployed energy technology, offering insights on innovation, entrepreneurship, oilfield digitalization, and the energy transition.
Discover how AI leader Fatai Anifowose transformed skepticism into innovation, sharing insights on artificial intelligence in energy, leadership, continuous learning, and the skills shaping the future of the industry.
Utkarsh Sinha, 2026 TWA Energy Influencer, is driving innovation at the intersection of reservoir physics and AI, combining research, patents, and industry leadership to develop practical machine learning solutions that improve reservoir and production engineering decision-making.
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Venture groups spend their time evaluating hundreds of companies each year to only make a handful of investments. These two cover interesting ends of the upstream spectrum: aerial drones and downhole artificial lift. -
Acquiring data from an abandoned subsea well has been done before, but never quite like this.
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Wearable computers are turning heads in the oil and gas industry and appear to be on a trajectory for widespread adoption.
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Data story consumers are focused on summarized results and highlights instead of details of the analysis. It’s a data scientist’s responsibility to identify the significance of the data and to present it in a simple but scientific manner.
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R&D may be the key to the survival of companies as the new economics of the industry take hold.
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Tiny soil samples may contain as many as 300,000 species of microbial life, but a Netherlands-based startup has figured out that between 50 and 200 of them can tell an operator if a drilling location will hold oil and gas reserves.
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No longer considered a buzz phrase, cloud computing has made converts of the largest oil companies, and now the smaller ones are next.
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While sidetracking your career path is not an easy journey, the skills and knowledge gained in petroleum engineering education can be applied in other industries during the downturn.
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Many cybersecurity experts think the global malware attack on 27 June may have been an initial test run of a hybrid creation. If the term “wiper” is unfamiliar, you need to read this.
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AUVs aren’t limited to inspections and pipeline surveys. Deployment of a flotilla of AUVs to work on a project, and the communication among them, may someday lead to a subsea Internet of Things.
