The Art of Intelligent Energy 2 – A long way to go before the benefits of the Digital Oilfield outweigh the effort involved Tony Edwards, CEO of StepChange Global, the International Digital Oilfield Consultancy, will be speaking at SPE’s Intelligent Energy Conference in Dubai, in October. Building on his [...]
Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global, is on the committee for the Intelligent Energy Middle East Event, to be held in Dubai, 28-30th October 2013.
With today’s focus on unmanning or minimal manning and decreasing operational costs for remote offshore platforms, the use of “collaborative environments” ensures that operational issues can be solved with real-time information. Collaboration centres make the best use of scarce resources by creating an operations hub where experts from a variety [...]
Stepchange Global are delighted to have been working with Santos on their new operations centre. Control rooms are adding a few new tasks to their job descriptions. While they’ll always be responsible for process control and process safety, they’re now evolving into integrated operations centres, which are also responsible [...]
Using big data analytics in your business can save tens of millions of dollars — or open up new opportunities. But it’s early days, so here are suggestions that will help you avoid the “trough of disillusionment.”As 2013 kicked off Gartner analyst Svetlana Sicular noted in her blog that big data is [...]
Big Data can have enormous appeal. Who wants to be thought of as a small thinker when there is an opportunity to go BIG? The positivistic bias in favor of Big Data (a term often used to describe the quantitative data that is produced through analysis of enormous datasets) as an [...]
Clearly Integrated Operations (IO) is not just about technology. The most significant change that has taken place is in the way companies are organized in order to maximise the value from having this real-time data and information. Many businesses see this as a technology-enabled transformation programme, whereby the way people [...]
Ten years ago, young adults and those in their late teens were among the fastest and earliest adopters of new social networks — Friendster, Myspace, and ultimately Facebook — and many other products that define us today. So we should be looking to today’s generation, who people often refer to [...]
The times they are definitely a-changing. Walk into any major operator in Houston, Aberdeen, or Stavanger and you cannot fail to notice that people are working differently and using state-of-the-art technology to produce oil and gas more efficiently. Offices are just not like they used to be. So what can [...]
Tony Edwards, CEO of StepChange Global Consulting, will be giving a paper at the IO conference in Trondheim, 24th-25th September. He will be delivering a session on IO teamwork and capabilities entitled: "Integrated operations enabling new operational and project concepts". More information on the conference can be found here:https://www.ioconf.no/2013/tony_edwards. [...]
