Digital Innovations in Oil and Gas with Geoffrey Cann

AI can help us quickly when we need to make decisions. But when executives are making high-stakes decisions about pipelines, energy infrastructure, capital investments or geopolitical risk, a quick answer isn't necessarily a good answer. Insight into the decision is fragmented across organizations, external information is difficult to assess, and misinformation, competing int...

Digital innovations are creating huge value for oil and gas, but digital landscape is setting the industry up for problems down the track.

Think of them as digital time bombs. Quantum computing will expose encrypted data that companies believe is safely protected. Legacy on-premise software is fast becoming difficult and costy to support as investment capital moves el...

Energy superpower is a fine marketing slogan. In fact, lots of countries have stated their ambition to become the next energy superpower, but oddly, no one spells out what that actually means.

Fortunately, there is a rigorous academic definition for energy superpowerhood, which ranks the EU, the U.S., and China as the world's true energy superpowers. All others are pr...

When a buyer comes a-calling with an unsolicited offer for your digital venture, you'll be facing a set of questions for which you are probably unprepared. Respond thoughtfully, though, and you may be able to add a zero to the price. Respond brashly, and you might cut a zero. Either way, don't be a zero and check out how to improve your odds of success when you decide to sell...

Industrial AI is into a new phase. Agentic AI is software that can plan, reason, learn, and act with far greater independence than traditional automation. While the technology is advancing quickly, the oil and gas industry faces unique technical, regulatory, and operational challenges that make full autonomy far less straightforward.

In this episode, I share what agen...