Timeline

Tony Edwards took part in an online round table discussion on Unmanned Technologies in the Petrochemical Industry as a way to increase labour productivity.  Hosted by SIBUR, the International Competence Centre for Mining-Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO, Tony was joined by eminent speakers from across the globe, and…Read More

Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global, will be speaking at the upcoming Future Oil and Gas conference, which will be taking place on 1-2nd December 2020.  His presentation is entitled “How New Digitally Enabled Remote and Minimum Staffed Operating Models Are Transforming Oil & Gas Operations”. The Future Oil &…Read More

Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global, will be speaking at the Digital Energy Leaders’ Summit – Delivering Digitalisation to the Upstream Oil & Gas Industry, a virtual forum to be held online on 19th November 2020.  Tony is also part of the Advisory Board that has convened the meeting. DELS…Read More

Tony Edwards, CEO will be presenting on “Digitally Enabled, Remote and Minimum Staffed Operating Models, what’s possible and What can we learn from other regions?” on Wednesday 28th October at 13:50.  This webinar is hosted by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. For more information, please Click Here

Stepchange Global will be exhibiting and presenting at the MINEX Russia 2020 Mining and Exploration Forum, on 6-8th October 2020.  The Forum will be focusing on the unprecedented challenges and solutions in the Russian Mining Industry. Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global, will be presenting remotely on “Lessons learned from…Read More

Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global, will be speaking at the upcoming Blockchain in Mining event, online on 22nd September 2020. Where Blockchain meets Mining Blockchain is a truly revolutionary technology that is already transforming the oil and gas industry, construction, logistics, trading and the real estate business. It is…Read More

Tony Edwards will be on the panel for the upcoming Future Energy Partners webinar, entitled “Britain Leading the way to Net Zero?” to be held on Wednesday, September 9th 2020. Future Energy Partners will discuss how they can make a difference for your companies. Here’s the facts to set the…Read More

General Meeting & Houston Chapter of the API: Practical Application of a Remote Operations Center to Maximize Operational Efficiency This presentation will share firsthand experience, concepts, strategies and case studies which demonstrate the capability of a remote operations center to improve the operational efficiency and economics of an asset by…Read More

Tony Edwards, CEO, will be running a training programme on digitalisation and integrated operations in the Oil and Gas Industry, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  The course includes: Gain a broad appreciation of the digitalisation and Integrated Operations (IO) benefits, value, collaboration concepts and critical success factors Develop a better understanding…Read More

Realities, Risks and Rewards Dinner,  Fairmont Hotel, Calgary, on Sunday, 29th September 2019. SPE-ATCE. This year’s event, “Smart Remote Operations:  Realities, Risks and Rewards” will be moderated by Tony Edwards, CEO at Stepchange Global Ltd.  An exceptional group of panelists will offer their viewpoints on the current state of the…Read More

Introducing the joint society data conference, exclusively designed for participants in the digital transformation of the energy sector. This forward-looking conference will include the latest in digital transformation trends as they relate to the energy sector (with topics such as machine learning and data management storage), oil & gas development…Read More

Digitalisation Of Refining Operations In View Of Industry 4.0 Standards Digitalisation seems to be the key to oil companies to grow margins & according to Accenture, the digital commercial optimization needs to happen at scale and speed to create competitive advantage. However, reskilling and redeploying the refining workforce is crucial for future…Read More

Fred Clarke, Principal Consultant for Stepchange Global, chaired a panel on “Establishing a Clear Business Case for IoT” at the recent 4th IoT in Oil and Gas Conference, run by the Energy Conference Network. For the 2018 post conference report please go to: https://info.iotinoilandgas.com/2018-conference-post-show-report

Tony Edwards, CEO will be chairing a panel at the Data Driven Drilling and Production Conference to be held in Houston on 30-31st May 2018. With an estimated global value of $31 billion by 2020, the digital oilfield is the oil & gas industry’s hotbed of innovation. From drilling optimization…Read More

Landmark Well Construction Forum, Houston, London, 15-16th May 2018 Tony Edwards, CEO, will be giving the keynote speech at this prestigious event, to be held at the London Museum of Water and Steam, Brentford.  His speech is entitled: “Digital Transformation is the Path to Innovation”, and will focus on understanding…Read More

SPE On Demand Webinar: Change Management and how to practically implement DOF/IO, Recorded 9th November 2017. Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global Ltd, is delivering a series of online webinars entitled “Digital Oilfield Series: From Infancy to Current Day”. This is second in a series of three: Session 1: What…Read More

Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global, has been invited to present at the Fifth Digital Oilfield Summit Forum and International Academic Conference, to be held in Qingdao, China, from 19th – 20th October, 2017. A unique research organization for the digital oilfield, DOICU(Digital oilfield institute of Chang’an University), Has been…Read More

What Have we learned in the first 15 Years of Digital Oilfield? Online, from 16th August 2017. Digital Oilfield (DOF) and Integrated Operations has been a major performance improvement initiative within many oil and gas companies for much of the last 15 years. It is therefore surprising to find that,…Read More

Big Data, IoT & Machine Learning in Oil and Gas Europe London, UK, 23-24th May 2017. Tony Edwards will be joining James Martin from Shell and Steve Aitken from Intelligent Plant to discuss “Changing the Mindset of the Digital Oilfield”, with pointers such as: • Adapting or be left in the wind • Real cost of stagnation • Just because it’s not broken doesn’t mean it’s not worth fixing The conference will…Read More

Live Webcast, hosted by Oil and Gas Engineering, featuring Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global Ltd Register Here Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016 at 11 a.m. PT/1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET One (1) Certified Professional Development Hour (PDH) available for all attendees. #OGEDigitalOilfield The promise of increased efficiency through automation is…Read More

Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global, stood in as the keynote speaker and gave a presentation on the Application of Digital Oilfield and Minimum manning approaches to reduce OPEX and CAPEX in Greenfield Projects, at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birdcage Walk, London.    

Tony Edwards recently presented at the Data Driven Production Conference, in Houston, June 7th 2016.  A link to the presentation can be found below. The purpose of the conference was to bring together engineering and IT functions to drive efficiencies in production operations using digital technology Through exclusive case study insight,…Read More

2015 Emerson Exchange Conference Recap The 2015 Emerson Global Users Exchange was held October 12 – 16 in Denver, Colorado at the Colorado Convention Center. Highlights of the 2015 conference agenda included: 300+ Workshops and Short Courses covered a wide spectrum of industry and technology specific topics. 6 Technology Roundtables which focused on the…Read More

Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global will be presenting at the Data Driven Production Optimisation Conference on 16-17 June in Houston. Tony will be sharing his strategies on using data effectively in order to improve production- an important topic in the current climate. He will be joined by speakers from…Read More

Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global will be taking part in a panel discussion entitled “The Renaissance Track: Digital Innovation Opportunities in the Oil & Gas Industry” at Cleantech Forum Europe on Tuesday, 28th April. This session will provide the Forum with insights into the digital innovation opportunities for Oil…Read More

Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global, leaders in Digital Oilfield advisory, will be part of a panel to challenge leading actors within the IO field on their perspective of the future of IO, at the IO Science and Practice conference, in Trondheim, September 29th-October 1st 2014. Participants will explore questions…Read More

Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global, will be presenting at the upcoming Global Forum on Digital Oilfields, to be held in Amsterdam, 11-12th September 2014. The forum is an exclusive event gathering together global oil and gas companies, leading associations and O&G research organizations, creating a flexible and dynamic platform…Read More

Integrated Operations and Digital Oilfield enabling new operational and project concepts Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global, the International Digital Oilfield Consultancy, will be speaking at SPE’s Abu Dhabi Section Meeting on Wednesday 30th October, at the Hilton Hotel, Abu Dhabi Corniche, from 18.30. He says: “Integrated Operations (IO) and…Read More

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.

Tony Edwards, CEO at StepChange Global, was a panellist at several key conferences at the Finding Petroleum event in Kuala Lumpur held at the end of October. On the Wednesday Tony chaired the conference focusing on how companies could do more with drilling data.  The panel discussed ideas aimed at…Read More

With thanks to Saeed Mubarak for these notes The conference took place in Crown Plaza Muscat, Oman during the period from 23-25 September 2012 with >100 participants from various technology providers and a few operators mostly from PDO. Discussions covered upstream technologies and processes, collaboration work environment, change management, workflows,…Read More

Tony Edwards, CEO at StepChange Global, was a speaker at the ‘Local Digital Oilfield Heroes’ session of the Developments with the Digital Oilfield conference in London in December. Organised by the Digital Energy Journal/Finding Petroleum, the event was for oil company IT, IS and data managers who want to keep…Read More

StepChange Global gave a paper at the Digital Oilfield Virtual Summit, in October 2011. This was a fully virtual online conference and exhibition dedicated to information and communications technologies supporting the Digital Oilfield.  Supporters include Energistics, Microsoft and other industry leaders – see the event prospectus at https://oilandgasvirtual.intuitwebsites.com/Digital_Oilfield_Virtual_Summit_prospectus.pdf.

25-28 March 2011, London / Oil and Gas Technology Forum (OGTF). Tony Edwards, CEO at StepChange Global, was a speaker at the 2011 OGTF. The presentation explored trends and developments in digital oilfield technologies and investigated where future key areas of smart investment are. Click here to access the OGTF…Read More

27 September – 1 October 2010, San Antonio – Texas, Emerson Global Users Exchange Tony Edwards, CEO at StepChange Global, discusses the question of the vision for Intelligent Fields at the Emerson Global Users Exchange Forum.  

17-19 May 2010, Dubai / HP 10th Executive Energy Conference 2010 Tony Edwards, CEO at StepChange Global,  participated as speaker at the HP conference that took  place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in May 2010. HP Executive Energy Conference 2010 – Event presentations and videos Download Tony’s presentation here

SPE Intelligent Energy 2010 – 23-25 March 2010, Utrecht Tony Edwards, CEO at StepChange Global was a member of the Organising Committee. StepChange Global held a stand and published ‘The Art Of Intelligent Energy’, a technical paper that reviews the lessons learned of the first ten years of Digital Oilfield…Read More

Emerson Global Users Exchange – September/October 2009 Tony Edwards, CEO at StepChange Global gave a presentation at the annual Emerson Global Users Exchange that happened in Orlando, Florida from September 28 to October 2, 2009. Tony participated to one of the industry forums on “Reservoir to Pipelines” and discussed how the…Read More

Digital Energy – April 2009 Tony Edwards, CEO at StepChange Global was a member of the Advisory Committee and submitted a joint paper with BAE Systems. This event was held in Houston, Texas. The Conference theme focused on the deployment issues examining key aspects related to this challenge. Another key…Read More

Workshop on Midstream R&D Challenges – February 2009 Tony Edwards, CEO at StepChange Global, was on the Organising Committee for this workshop on Midstream R&D Challenges. This workshop was held on 1-4 February 2009 in Abu Dhabi. Website: Workshop on Midstream RandD Challenges

SPE Intelligent Energy – 2008 Tony Edwards, CEO at StepChange Global was Chairman of the Organising Committee for the SPE Intelligent Energy Conference. The second conference in 2008, ‘The Future is Here – the Value of Innovation & Integration’ focused more on people and managing change associated with deployment of…Read More

SPE Intelligent Energy – April 2006 The 2006 Intelligent Energy conference and exhibition happened in April 06 in Amsterdam. Oyvind Mydland made a presentation in collaboration with StatoilHydro and Tony Edwards, CEO at StepChange Global, gave a talk at the event.