The digital oilfield includes methane gas emission detection sensors
The digital oilfield holds promise of introducing disruptive new cost-cutting efficiencies, greater levels of production and new business models with the potential to transform the energy industry in the same way digitalization has transformed many other sectors of the economy.
The oilpatch has been slow to embrace the digital oilfield. Digital technologies hold the promise to solve many of the challenges, if they can penetrate into an industry perceived to be resistant to change.