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On Friday April 10th, the OPEC members and the non-OPEC oil producing countries, the so-called OPEC+, signed an agreement to cut the crude oil production by 9.7 million barrels per day (b/d).

All crises are creating threats and opportunities, but the accumulation of a double crisis in energy prices and pandemic Covid-19 generates a unique situation.

In this unusual context, we try to evaluate the consequences of this double crisis on the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical market, especially the areas under threats and in opposite way where we should see opportunities.

Whereas automation had clear applications in both manufacturing and processing industries, robotization was left behind when talking about the process industry.
Today, robotization is making a come back on the edge of the scene in the Oil and Gas world thanks to digital technologies.

In August 2016, Eni and ExxonMobil signed an agreement by which Eni will sell 25% stake into the onshore LNG project and transfer the operator role to the US major ExxonMobil. Eni kept the operator role for the development of its offshore fields.

Augmented Reality and Virtual reality, often shortened as AR and VR, are two technologies which have been developped along the last decade with technological similarities but serving different purposes, especially for the industry

The LNG eldorado of Yamal Gydan Peninsula Novatek has huge reserves on the Gydan peninsula, namely the Geofizicheskoye and Utrenneye fields, which combined hold some 7 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) of C1+C2 reserves, which is comparable to those of South Tambeyskoye field, the base for Yamal-LNG. The Geofizicheskoye and Utrenneye fields may generate […]

Oil & Gas is booming while other Industries slow down 2B1st Consulting expects that you could already benefit from the business upturn in the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical market in 2019, to wish you an even better NEW YEAR 2020 as this positive trend should continue while other industries are slowing down amid the international […]

As reminder, a Digital Twin is a virtual model of an existing object, process or service.
To run this model efficently, the Digital Twin needs to be fed with data.
In the Large Industry, these data can be divided in two categories: Passive or Active.

The paradox of Hydrogen clean label As the electric energy, the hydrogen energy is often perceived as a renewable and clean energy able to replace fuel-based activities in the near future. It’s true that unlike current fuels, while burnt, hydrogen does not release carbon emissions, only pure water. Less known, is the process most largely […]

Where digitization will always be the first required step to enter the digital world, the digitalization is an already advanced stage of the digital transformation