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Digital Oil and Gas

Geoffrey Cann

This is a weekly podcast of ideas and insights into how #digital innovation will impact the global #oil and #gas sector.

Episodes

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Stick-on Digital Eyes, Ears, and Brain: No Fuss Physical AI for the Field

Oil and gas companies have invested billions in SCADA, sensors and other technologies to understand what's happening with their equipment. Y...

00:36:06Sep 9, 2026

Can AI Actually Help Us Think? Using Structured AI For High-Stakes Decisions

AI can help us quickly when we need to make decisions . But when executives are making high-stakes decisions about pipelines , energy infras...

34:33Aug 26, 2026

Defuse These Digital Oil and Gas Time Bombs: There's Still Time

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

09:43Aug 19, 2026

Can Canada Become An Energy Superpower? Yes, But It Will Take More Than Slogans

Energy superpower is a fine marketing slogan. In fact, lots of countries have stated their ambition to become the next energy superpower, bu...

14:03Aug 12, 2026

Agentic AI Is All The Rage: Reducing The Cognitive Burden On The Workforce

Industrial AI is into a new phase. Agentic AI is software that can plan, reason, learn, and act with far greater independence than tradition...

12:03Jul 29, 2026

Digital Lessons From The US War on Iran: Drones, Remote Sensing, Speed and More

It's sad to say but wars create opportunities to apply new technologies in novel ways as the combatants seek to gain advantage over each oth...

12:24Jul 22, 2026

The $50B Junk Drawer: Turning Oilpatch Surplus Into Serious Cash

Oil and gas companies are sitting on vast amounts of surplus inventory, often without realizing its true scale or value. Equipment purchased...

30:53May 20, 2026

EHS Compliance and AI: How Better Data Turns Safety Into Advantage

EHS and AI are starting to transform safety and reliability in oil and gas. But most organizations are still managing safety as a compliance...

35:23May 13, 2026

Digital Twin Technology Meets AI: Real-Time Optimization in Oil & Gas

Digital twin technology is evolving rapidly, and when combined with artificial intelligence , it is starting to reshape how oil and gas oper...

30:58May 6, 2026

Fuel Supply Chain Crisis: Why Companies Can't Act Fast Enough

Global energy markets are under acute pressure as geopolitical disruption tightens supply and drives volatility. Events like the conflict in...

34:35Apr 29, 2026

Reinventing Turnarounds with AI: Link Planning Directly to Execution

Turnarounds are one of the most critical and expensive activities in oil and gas, yet many are still managed using spreadsheets, manual coor...

39:50Apr 25, 2026

Tokenizing the Barrel: Rewiring Oil Markets from Molecule to Money

The global oil market still runs on a horribly fragmented system where physical barrels, paper contracts, and financial settlement operate i...

39:48Apr 15, 2026

How to Reduce Waste in Capital Projects: Using Execution Intelligence To Fix Broken Coordination

Large-scale capital projects sit at the heart of the oil and gas industry , and across all infrastructure sectors (power, petrochemicals, ra...

29:47Mar 25, 2026

The Carbon Credibility Crisis: We Need Trustworthy Carbon Data

One thing I've learned from producing lots of videos is that you can't really trust with your own eyes what you see presented to you anymore...

08:29Mar 18, 2026

How to Spot Cyber Attacks on Physical Assets

Industrial operations have spent decades optimizing for safety , reliability, and uptime . Control systems, sensors, and field equipment wer...

32:28Mar 4, 2026

Data Quality Is Your Bottleneck: Fix The Foundation Before Scaling AI

Oil and gas companies generate enormous volumes of operational, geological, and production data . Despite this abundance, much of that data...

35:07Feb 25, 2026

Stranded Gas Has A Job Now: Why Pad Electrification With Gas Wins

Diesel generators have long been the default answer for powering upstream and midstream oil and gas sites . They are familiar , mobile, and...

31:14Feb 18, 2026

Why Data Centers Need One View Across Power, Facilities, and IT

Data centers have shifted from supporting enterprise IT to running large parts of the digital economy . They now host AI model training , AI...

33:13Feb 11, 2026

Money Under the Mattress

Oil and gas operators have always known that surplus equipment is part of doing business. Projects get cancelled. Long-lead items are over-o...

25:56Jan 21, 2026

AI Agents Are Starting To Reshape Upstream Operations

Upstream oil and gas companies continue to be very reliant on spreadsheets , legacy systems , and manual workflows to manage thousands of we...

33:28Jan 14, 2026