The Strategic & Plenary Programme addresses a broad range of organizational and leadership issues related to digital innovation in energy. View the list of Roundtable Talks and Panel Discussions below for more details. Interested in speaking opportunities? Send us an email to discuss.
The future demand for oil and gas is highly uncertain, with forecasts differing drastically depending on whether global society transitions to a net-zero trajectory or remains on the current path. This uncertainty creates a short-term investment horizon and increased pressure for decision makers. Are we realising the full potential of digital technologies and are they enabling wiser investments and more accurate predictions?
Over the past decade, the oil and gas industry has invested heavily in digital transformation. However, has it truly transformed our business and increased efficiency, revenues and success? What are key metrics to show the impact and what are actual gains of this journey?
Digitalization in the oil and gas sector involves various technology elements, typically organized into three layers: the data layer, which includes databases and data-gathering equipment like sensors; the digital platform layer, which involves integration and contextualization; and the application layer. This discussion focuses on how resources are allocated to develop and deploy each layer and its components, as well as exploring current achievements, challenges, and the dynamics between operators and suppliers.
AI has the potential to revolutionize the oil and gas industry by enhancing operational efficiency, reducing costs, and improving safety. Adoption continues to grow across the industry as AI applications move from piloting stages to large scale operations. Where are we seeing the most significant results from AI deployment today? What are the emerging themes where value will be created in the future?
As we navigate the GenAI hype cycle, we are learning critical lessons about its potential and limitations. The initial wave of excitement and inflated expectations has given way to a growing understanding of the practical challenges and a shift towards use cases that drive ROI. This panel aims to provide a status update on GenAI adoption in the oil and gas industry. What new business models are emerging as adoption increases? Are they deliberate or accidental evolutions? What lessons learnt from the broader digital transformation journey could be implemented in the new AI wave?
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere in the Oil & Gas business, but AI depends on good data to be successful. In exploration, where data is notoriously sparse and of variable quality, can AI be a useful tool? What areas of exploration can most gain from AI and what areas should be avoided? This panel will discuss recent AI-driven successes in exploration, the pitfalls encountered, and the lessons learned.
Managing a long-term technology vision through business cycles requires flexibility, strategic foresight, and the ability to align technology with both current needs and future growth. This is further complicated by the uncertainties of energy transition and an accelerated technology innovation cycle. What factors are necessary for the long term survivability of new technology initiatives? And how do technology managers navigate organisational turnover, change readiness and stakeholder management to ensure that investments are resilient to fluctuations in the market?
Digital programs are revolutionizing the energy sector with advanced technologies like OT, AI, big data, and high-performance computing, improving efficiency, sustainability, and innovation. These tools optimize renewable assets and grid reliability, while digital business models enhance energy efficiency and demand-side flexibility. This session will feature speakers discussing how their digital experiences can enhance solutions in the new energy sector.
OSDU has the potential to revolutionize the oil and gas industry by standardizing data formats, enhancing collaboration, improving data accessibility, and enabling real-time analytics. While there is momentum, particularly within larger operators, full industry-wide adoption remains challenging. What is needed to overcome resistance and foster greater collaboration among stakeholders? How can we leverage early successes to drive further adoption while ensuring continuous development to align with dynamic industry needs?
Open source tools and low-code platforms are fostering innovation by enabling domain experts with limited programming ability to create custom applications for their unique business needs. However, these user led developments require corporate steer to ensure alignment with business goals, security, and scalability. This panel will explore the challenges for supporting citizenship development as part of an innovation strategy while balancing against compliance risks and the conservative nature of the oil and gas industry.
This session will address the userâs perspective. With the digital shift, G&G domain experts face new ways of data management, new ways of working with new solutions in a new ecosystem. How can the industry ensure that the upsides of digitalization are properly understood, managed and communicated? How to minimize the cost of such changes, being the learning curve itself, the feeling of being overwhelmed with too much data that sometimes is not properly quality-checked, the large amounts of outputs generated? Usersâ acceptance is a key-element for a successful adoption that will bring the right value to the industry.
Balancing cloud and on-premise solutions needs a strategic approach that considers an organisation’s specifics, combining technology, operations, and finance. As cloud adoption matures in the energy sector, this session will cover its progress, growth opportunities, and when on-premise solutions are more robust and cost-effective.
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Prof. Dr Dominique Guérillot, former member of the Executive Committee of IFP and Program Director for the Upstream R&D of Saudi Aramco, he is focusing in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production including Unconventional, CO2 EOR and Carbon storage. After a PhD in Applied Mathematics, he joined IFP in 1982 in the Reservoir Engineering Dpt.
He started his career in the Exploration and Production sector developing Expert system for selecting EOR methods and Advanced Compositional Reservoir Simulators for EOR (CO2 and thermal methods).
In 1985, he began cooperating with geologists and he invented with the Paris School of Mines the first software package integrating reservoir characterization and flow simulations in porous media proposing innovative methods for upscaling absolute permeabilities.
After being the Director of the Geology and Geochemistry (95-01, in 2001, he became member of the Executive Committee of IFP and Managing Director of Exploration and Reservoir Engineering Centre with a total budget of 30 Millions of Euros. Consequently, IFP nominated him as board member of several Exploration and Production subsidiaries of IFP: Beicip-Franlab and RSI in France, IFP MEC in Bahrain, etc. He developed new strategic orientations for the business unit he was in charge modifying its business model to generate revenues based on royalties through the development of several strategic marketed software for IFP.
In 2009, he created a Young Innovative Company (YIC), Terra 3E, in Energy and Environment: http://www.Terra3E.com developing innovative plug-ins in Petrel software among which the first tool for accurate calculations of fluids in place for gas and oil shales and upscaling transmissivities. From 2010 to 2013, he was senior expert for Petrobras, Brazil.
In 2012, he served the European Commission for selecting R&D projects on CO2 Storage. In 2013, Qatar Petroleum called Dominique Guérillot for developing their R&D Centre at the Qatar Sciences and Technology park in Doha, Qatar. He is currently full professor at Texas A&M University in their campus of Qatar.
He published more than 50 full and refereed papers, holds 5 patents, is member of the IJOGCT editorial team, the SPE and EAGE associations, is referee of the Oil & Gas Science and Technology (OGST), and member of the editorial board of the Petroleum Geoscience journal of the Geological Society.