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. [...]
ENERGY company Santos is investing $10-$15 million to build a communications network linking its Adelaide headquarters with upstream gas facilities in the Cooper Basin. It will be the third collaboration centre at the Flinders St office to improve liaison with Santos assets in the basin. The gas collaboration centre [...]
Stepchange Global are delighted to be working with mining giant BHP Billiton on their new Integrated Remote Operations Centre (IROC). Officially opened in July, the centre in Perth provides a real-time view of the company's entire Pilbara iron ore operations, many located thousands of kilometres away. The company hope it [...]
LUKOIL Overseas Group is a growing oil and gas company comprising an integral part of the vertically integrated oil company OAO LUKOIL. It is engaged in the exploration, acquisition, integration and subsequent efficient development of oil and gas fields outside the Russian Federation to promote the transformation of OAO LUKOIL [...]
I don’t think I’m alone in observing a strange phenomenon that is going on these days with IT. I call it Stackholm Syndrome. Sufferers are IT professionals who feel trapped by their software stack vendors – but have grown so accustomed to their bondage that they feel lost without them. Read [...]
Autonomy in the Oil and Gas Industry - What will it take to get us there? 6 – 7 March, 2013, Sola Strand hotel, Stavanger The conference aims to be the primary forum in Norway for discussing future needs for autonomous systems in the oil & gas industry, and be [...]
