“Culture is the foundation of our company, which will lead to superior performance in oil and gas,” says Patrick Eiland, Vice President Health, Safety, Environmental & Regulatory, Quarter North Energy.“Culture is the foundation of our company, which will lead to superior performance in oil and gas,” says Patrick Eiland, Vice President Health, Safety, Environmental & Regulatory, Quarter North Energy. In this video, Patrick discusses the importance of culture in operational excellence and how his company views training, developing competency, and establishing clear performance criteria the path to future business success.
The journey towards risk management and human performance is never-ending because you can always be doing more to improve safety and operational excellence, says Hugo Ashkar, Risk Authority – Wells, Projects and Subsurface Organizations, bp. In this video, Hugo discusses why talent and performance management is such an important issue for the oil and gas industry to tackle together.
What does it take to build an effective operational excellence team and organization? The Chair of our Operational Excellence in Oil and Gas Summit, Donna Birbiglia, Technical Vice President at Shell Shales, will be sharing practical lessons on what works and what doesn’t. In this video, Donna discusses her presentation and talks about how she’s looking forward to coming together as an industry to learn and share.
How can you ensure OpEx and Connected Worker projects sustain the gains and connect to real business value for the organization? That’s the topic of a presentation by Julie Thyne, Global Improvement Director at Dow, at the Operational Excellence in Oil and Gas Conference. In this video, Julie shares what she’ll be presenting on at the conference and talks about what she’s looking forward to at the event.
Oil and gas companies are awash with data, but how can industry leaders extract meaningful insight out of that information? In this video, Sudhakar Virupakshi, Chief Information Officer, Buckeye Partners says he’ll be addressing that issue at the upcoming Operational Excellence in Oil and Gas Summit and says that events like these are so important for sharing and learning with your peers.
If you’re an Operations leader, then you have the added responsibility of operating within API’s regulations while keeping up with consumer demand and minimizing labor costs. On top of that, the industry is dealing with an imminent talent crisis. 40% of oil and gas professionals claimed in a Global Energy Talent Index (GETI) survey that they see a “skills crisis” already unfolding in their geographical area.
In the lead up to the Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit, we sat down with Sheryl Corrigan, Director, Environment, Health & Safety to discuss how Koch Industries is using AI, RPA & Machine Learning to Drive Operational Excellence.
In the lead up to the 2019 Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit
in Houston, we caught up with Julie Thyne, North America Continuous
Improvement Lead at The Dow Chemical Company. Julie provides insight
into how the company is driving reliability improvements by speaking
directly to frontline experts.
In the lead up to the Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit, we sat down with Hugo Ashkar, Global Risk Manager at BP, to discuss his work in human performance and the role of human factors in overall risk management.
Recently Software AG and IQPC teamed up to survey more than 200 operations leaders to understand how they are responding to this new environment and optimizing asset performance. Are companies cutting preventative maintenance programs – or investing in them? How is the current market volatility affecting how they approach maintenance? How concerned are they about external risk factors such as access to capital, unplanned shutdowns, cyber security and more? How confident are they that using predictive analytics to enable asset optimization will result in safer, more profitable operations? How are they using their asset data?
In the lead up to this year’s Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit, we sat down with Kal Johnson, Director of HSSE at Cameron LNG. Kal is accountable for developing and implementing an overarching corporate and operations HSSE management system, while maintaining strategic security infrastructure to meet MARSAC and USCG requirements. Kal has been working on a robust hazard identification program.
Jim Claunch, Vice President of Business Efficiency at Equinor shares his unique insights on the digital transformation of oil and gas companies and the barriers facing companies on this transformation journey. Jim has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry and shares his expertise with us in this exclusive interview. Download the full interview to read about how Equinor is: defining business efficiency through a mission to integrate competencies, developing a culture that embraces digital transformation, leveraging big data, predictive maintenance and analytics.
In the lead-up to the 10th annual Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit, we caught up with Sheryl Corrigan, SVP of EH&S and Compliance at Koch Industries. An avid environmentalist and one of this year’s keynote speakers, Sheryl tells us about operational excellence at Koch Industries and how the company is leveraging new technologies to improve safety and environmental stewardship.
In this exclusive interview, Cynthia Hansen, Executive Vice President of Utilities and Power Operations at Enbridge, shares her insight on how high-risk businesses can enable safe and reliable operations during times of transformation.
Cynthia Hansen is the Executive Vice President, Utilities and Power Operations at Enbridge Inc. She is responsible for the overall leadership and operations of Enbridge Gas Distribution and Union Gas. Cynthia has over 19 years experience in operational, financial and safety leadership roles. She is a member of Calgary-based Enbridge Inc.’s Executive Leadership Team and serves on the board of the Ontario Energy Association, Energy Council of Canada, and the University of Alberta School of Business Advisory Council. Cynthia has been named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 by the Women’s Executive Network.