Tech and energy are teaming up, creating a market that could grow 500% in the next 5 years

As the energy industry faces a time of reckoning — pressured by consistently low oil prices, high operating costs and a growing sustainable investing movement — oil and gas companies are increasingly turning to Silicon Valley for help streamlining operations and boosting efficiencies. By some estimates, the addressable market for digital oil and gas solutions […]

Creating the Perfect Ergonomic Workspace- The ULTIMATE Guide

Is your workspace helping you work and be successful, or crippling you in the process? Consider this: The average cost of a chronic low back disorder is $100k.  Studies have shown that ergonomic design in your work space, whether at the office or at home, can not only reduce injury and pain, but boost your productivity […]

The future of IT: An oil and gas perspective

Across industries, CEOs are realizing the importance of agility in sustaining and growing their business. More than half acknowledge agility as the new currency of business and that growth relies on the ability to challenge and disrupt business norms. Despite this realization, just under half of global CIOs feel their organizations are better than competitors […]

The Role Of Information Technology In The Upstream Oil & Gas Industry

Calgary, AB – Research conducted by Ipsos-Reid on behalf of PeopleSoft indicates that Information Technology is an important issue for the Oil and Gas industry today. Among other findings, study outcomes indicate that there is not currently a strong move among Canadian oil and gas companies to become compliant with the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. […]

A new mandate for the oil and gas chief information officer

In an increasingly data-dependent sector, oil and gas companies need to scale up their use of technology across the enterprise rapidly. Success will involve reframing the CIO’s role in driving not only digital transformation but also business outcomes. Most oil and gas companies have embarked on a digital transformation in the past few years. Many technology-enabled […]

Technology and Oil

PURPOSE To demonstrate how much our society depends on petroleum products and to show how advances in technology have allowed us to find, obtain, and transport oil more efficiently. CONTEXT This lesson is part of the Energy in a High-Tech World Project, which examines the science behind energy. Energy in a High-Tech World is developed […]