Digital Transformation
In an industry that rarely slows down, memory can be a powerful engineering tool. Not in terms of nostalgia, but in perspective. Many of the activities that constituted daily operations have been so deeply transformed that new generations of engineers may never have experienced them before.
This article explores how AI is transforming oil and gas operations, including its real impact on methane reduction, predictive maintenance, energy efficiency, and whether it truly delivers measurable sustainability gains or just adds complexity.
AI is evolving into a practical tool that helps geoscientists and engineers work faster, evaluate more opportunities, and manage subsurface uncertainty.
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BP has invested more than $100 million into nine different startup companies in the past 2 years—but only one of them wants to turn your brain into a piece of its software. -
The same tools that make it fun and easy for you to see a friend's updates online are also pretty good at tying together unconnected databases holding valuable well information.
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What do 60,000 sensors on 1,200 pieces of equipment add up to? Hopefully, hundreds of millions of dollars in savings.
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Video games have been seen as a big waste of time for years by parents around the globe. But now, the oil and gas industry sees the underlying technology as a big time saver.
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Well-interference issues can be hard to diagnose, but this startup may be figuring that out. The data-driven process it developed can also help operators come up with more effective ways to use diverters.
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Hundreds of rod-lift wells in North Dakota are about to get a big upgrade.
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A recent research effort has shown that the digital journey is full of stumbling blocks. Just like humans, advanced computing technology will get some things right and some things wrong.
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The company behind the world’s most popular search engine is trying to click with the upstream business at the most distinguished technical event of the year.
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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.
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This interview explores the opportunities, challenges, and what young professionals need to know to have a rewarding career in drilling data analytics.
