Oil & Gas

Medias have largely covered the last weeks Ups and Downs of the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical industry. Well, mostly the Downs in fact.

To figure out the reality, we crunched the numbers from our database www.projectsmartexplorer.com
In fact, the outlook of the Petroleum industry is rather different than what has been massively reported.

Once the context awareness done, the question is no more “if” but “how” should the Oil & Gas industry turn digital.

For this purpose we designed a simple list to breackdown and categorize all the Use Cases from digitalization applicable to Oil and Gas operations.

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.

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 […]

The comparison between 2019 with the previous period 2015 to 2018, shows how in only the first 6-month of this year the volume of business opportunities to be sanctioned to manufacturers for Electrical Cables is already exceeding the previous years on a 12-month period.

In 2018, twice more, in volume of capital expenditure, EPC contracts were awarded than in 2017. This step change is not related to some barrel price speculations bu to the new business models developed by the game changers, mostly the Independent companies taking now the lead of the market.

Back in April, Japan published a report announcing the discovery of huge reserves of rare earth close to the Minamitori Island, 1800km away from Tokyo. Scientists discovered 16 million tons of rare earth elements encapsulated in mud 6000 meters underwater, enough to supply the national electronic industry and the world consumption for at least 400 years.