Insight Series Articles

This is a limited series of executive insight pieces in which industry thought leaders will share experiences and views on the future of E&P.

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Spotlight on INNOVATION FACTORI Houston

Dec 05, 2024

Speaking to Per Irgens, INNOVATION FACTORI Houston manager, we explored the unique challenges faced in the US energy industry, the importance of supporting educational initiatives, and his ideas on future trends for digital.

Per Irgens

Per Irgens

Houston INNOVATION FACTORI Manager

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Spotlight on INNOVATION FACTORI Beijing

Nov 12, 2024

Yunlong Liu, Beijing INNOVATION FACTORI manager, speaks on the role the center plays in the region’s digital transformation.

Yunlong Liu

Yunlong Liu

Beijing INNOVATION FACTORI Manager

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The nuts and bolts of automating emissions data disclosure

Sep 23, 2024

Lessons learnt from data collection through calculation and reporting

Gian-Marcio Gey

Gian-Marcio Gey

Head of Products, Digital Sustainability

Bridging Silos

Bridging Silos

Sep 18, 2024

How the Lumi™ data and AI platform integrates planning and operations

Tom Dombrowsky

Tom Dombrowsky

Digital and Integration Product Manager

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Onboarding to OSDU

Sep 18, 2024

How SLB connectors help to accelerate the OSDU adoption journey

Tom Dombrowsky

Tom Dombrowsky

Digital and Integration Product Manager

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EU Methane Regulation Comes into Force

Sep 09, 2024

Council of the EU approval of the EU Methane Regulation—with methane reporting for EU producers and importers as soon as April 2025

Shy Murall

Shy Murali

Head of Climate Action Services

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Making sense of ESG reporting—an introduction to the landscape

Jun 25, 2024

As global consciousness of the need for climate action increases, the drive to be more sustainable, by cutting emissions and switching to cleaner energy sources is high on the agenda for most industries and powerful economies. To bring about any change, measurement is essential and as Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, said: “what gets measured gets managed”.

Rajarshi Ray and Shy Murali

Rajarshi Ray

Climate Subject Matter Expert, Climate Actions Services (DSP), Digital & Integration


Shy Murali

Head of Climate Action Services

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Generative AI for Field Development Planning

Jun 04, 2024

A system that simplifies the modification and generation of new reservoir simulation model scenarios and also provides insights to optimize field development plans.

Samat Ramatullayev

Samat Ramatullayev

Domain Data Scientist - Subsurface

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Using Generative AI to improve well integrity management

May 16, 2024

Providing a structured framework to proactively manage well integrity

 Patricia Cejas Manceron

Soumil Shah

Global Innovation Manager for Drilling

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Vectorizing domain data to help large language models talk the language of energy

May 16, 2024

In the realm of applying large language models (LLMs) to domain-specific questions, the challenge of knowledge cutoff looms prominently.

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Lee Ming Xiang

Domain Data Scientist - Subsurface

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Accelerating business value with Generative AI in INNOVATION FACTORI

Apr 24, 2024

The latest breakthroughs in Generative AI present us with previously unimaginable ways to tackle the complex challenges of today's world.

 Patricia Cejas Manceron

Patricia Cejas Manceron

Global AI and INNOVATION FACTORI Manager

How digital helps deliver CCUS projects at speed and scale for climate action

Feb 20, 2024

An exploration of how digital technologies can make the difference, turning CCUS into a powerful component of climate action strategy. 

Saad Kisra

Saad Kisra

CCUS Head of Products

Can digital solutions get beyond the pilot phase to deliver at scale?

Jul 25, 2023

In 2017, SLB said liberated data would become the pulsing lifeblood driving quantum leaps in cost reduction, and productivity increases. Here, Trygave Randen, senior VP digital products & solutions, asks the question can digital solutions get beyond the pilot phase to deliver at scale?

Trygve Randen

Trygve Randen

Senior VP Digital Products & Solutions

ProdOps—Delivering Extraordinary Company-wide Value in Production Operations

ProdOps—Delivering Extraordinary Company-wide Value in Production Operations

May 09, 2022

Schlumberger’s ProdOps tuned production operations solution recently won a Spotlight Award for New Technology at OTC Asia 2022. In this interview, we speak with Mack Shippen, DELFI ProdOps Program Manager at Schlumberger to find out exactly how the ProdOps solution can digitally enhance field activities in the oil and gas space. 

Mack Shippen

Mack Shippen

ProdOps Apps Manager

Transforming Oil and Gas: Our Digital Future

Transforming Oil and Gas: Our Digital Future

Apr 26, 2022

The oil and gas industry has been at the forefront of technology since the first modern oil wells were constructed in the industrial era. More than 150 years later, innovation is transforming the sector for the digital age, as energy embraces a leaner, greener future.

Rajeev Sonthalia

Rajeev Sonthalia

President, Digital & Integration

INNOVATION FACTORI

Accelerating AI Adoption for Customers

Mar 18, 2021

Our new initiative, INNOVATION FACTORI, expands the reach of our innovation-through-collaboration approach, to accelerate AI adoption in the energy industry and drive rapid innovation. 

Rajeev Sonthalia

Rajeev Sonthalia

President Digital & Integration, Schlumberger

 

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A Living Digital special edition—Digital Leadership: Expanding the Boundaries

Feb 15, 2021

We brought together executives from Chevron, Conoco Philips, Microsoft, IBM and Schlumberger for a discussion on partnering to accelerate digital transformation in the energy industry—originally recorded for our online conference in October 2020.

Expanding the Boundaries

Executives from Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Microsoft, IBM, and Schlumberger

OMV Upstream-Maximizing well planning efficiency

OMV Upstream-Maximizing well planning efficiency

Dec 18, 2020

Sharing the company’s experience with the DrillPlan solution, Vice President of Well Delivery for OMV Upstream John Watters discusses how the solution digitally transformed the company’s well planning process to overcome challenges across multidisciplinary teams.

John Watters

John Watters

VP Well Delivery, OMV Upstream

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Opening our minds will deliver lasting change

Nov 19, 2020

In this article published in the October 2020 issue of World Oil, Rajeev Sonthalia, president Digital & Integration outlines the big picture of digital transformation in the energy industry from Schlumberger. From delivering business continuity during the Covid-19 global lockdown to solving the Dual Challenge—from edge, to cloud to enterprise, the broad spectrum of technology, solutions and cross-industry collaborations that will take the industry into its digitalized future are explained.

Rajeev Sonthalia

Rajeev Sonthalia

President Digital & Integration, Schlumberger

OSDU World Oil Webcast

World Oil webcast:
The OSDU™ data platform: Why we built it

Jun 26, 2020

Listen to the webcast discussing the historic industry collaboration to build a common shared data platform, presented by OSDU Management Committee Members, Johan Krebbers, from Shell and Stephen Whitley, from Schlumberger.

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The OSDU™ data platform: Why we built it

Johan Krebbers & Stephen Whitley

Unconventional Thinking

Dec 16, 2019

Marathon Oil chairman and CEO, Lee Tillman talks about the opportunities in unconventional oil production that are being opened up by digital transformation.

Lee Tillman

Chairman, President and CEO, Marathon Oil

Anelise Lara, Petrobras

Things are only impossible until they are not

Dec 16, 2019

A frank and open presentation by Anelise Lara, chief downstream officer, Petrobras, on how the company has tackled external issues to differentiate and progress.

Anelise Lara

Chief Downstream Officer, Petrobras

First Glimpse of an Amazing Future

Dec 02, 2019

Executive Vice President Technology, Projects and Drilling, Anders Opedal, shares a futuristic vision of digital, robotic and automated technology in energy production.

Anders Opedal

Executive Vice President Technology, Projects and Drilling, Equinor ASA

Trygve Randen

Rethinking Collaboration in the Oil and Gas Industry

Jun 25, 2019

Trygve Randen with Schlumberger discusses the oil and gas industry’s pivot to a more open future.

Trygve Randen

Trygve Randen

President, Software Integrated Solutions, Schlumberger

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Innovate Faster: When AI Meets Cloud

Apr 09, 2018

Urs Hölzle, SVP Engineering at Google, on why innovation within the enterprise space needs to reach the same speed as in the consumer world.

Urs Holzle

Urs Hölzle

SVP Engineering, Google

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PUT DIGITAL IN THE DRIVING SEAT

Mar 20, 2018

Right now, the driller in the chair is still doing the driving. But to break through today’s safety and performance limits, they’ll need to share the ride with digital.

Gokturk Tunc

Gokturk Tunc

Well Construction Platform Manager, Schlumberger

Planning for the Future

Bending Time, Extending Science: Planning in the Digital Age

Mar 12, 2018

Continuing our Insights series, Patrick Schorn, Executive Vice President - New Ventures at Schlumberger, highlights the importance—and challenges—of field development planning within the E&P industry.

Patrick Schorn

Patrick Schorn

Executive Vice President New Ventures, Schlumberger Limited

Drilling: Can we change the equation?

Drilling: Can We Change the Equation?

Feb 22, 2018

Jean-Pierre Poyet examines the barriers in well construction and how they can be overcome.

Jean-Pierre Poyet

Jean-Pierre Poyet

VP Drilling Ops Software Technology, Schlumberger

SIS Global Forum 2017

FOR A BRAVE HEART, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE

Sep 14, 2017

BP Upstream’s Chief Executive Bernard Looney took the stage at the SIS Global Forum 2017 to make a compelling case for digital transformation.

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Bernard Looney

Chief Executive, Upstream BP

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What’s Next... Starts Now

Sep 14, 2017

Gavin Rennick, president, Software Integrated Solutions, Schlumberger, presented the ambition of the DELFI cognitive E&P environment with the audience at the SIS Global Forum. See how you can dramatically boost efficiency by connecting and working in an entirely different way—in a secure, cloud-based ecosystem that unites planning and operations.

Gavin Rennick

Gavin Rennnick

President, SIS

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Kibsgaard Speaks at the SIS Global Forum 2017

Sep 13, 2017

Read the SIS Global Forum opening speech by Paal Kibsgaard, chairman and chief executive officer, Schlumberger.

Paal Kibsgaard

Paal Kibsgaard

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Schlumberger Limited

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Reinventing our Technology Landscape

Sep 13, 2017

At the SIS Global Forum in Paris, Ashok Belani, executive vice president, Technology, explained how we through reinvention of the technology landscape, we reinvent the way we do business and develop technology for the future.

Ashok Belani

Ashok Belani

Executive Vice President Technology, Schlumberger Limited

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Subsurface Characterization as a Service

Aug 31, 2017

How we acquire, process, store, access, share and update subsurface data and knowledge is key to all other advances we will make as an industry. From enabling a faster assessment of an opportunity’s potential and planning a smarter placement of wells, all the way through to executing more intelligent and efficient operations.

Hinda Gharbi

Hinda Gharbi

President—Reservoir Characterization Group, Schlumberger Limited

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Never change a running system? Let's.

Jun 04, 2017

Ashok Belani, vice president Technology, Schlumberger looks at how E&P can achieve the fundamental change it needs fast. Read on for his personal take on how the industry can stay safe and transform wisely—to exploit digital opportunities at speed.

Ashok Belani

Ashok Belani

Executive Vice President Technology, Schlumberger Limited