According to the former CIO and Digital Strategy Lead for one of the world’s largest multinational energy companies, digital transformation represents both the top opportunity and business risk for the oil and gas industry in 2020. Why the double-edged sword? Trond Ellefsen, CEO of Invatare and formerly of Statoil (now Equinor), explains that the risk…

OilComm is making a big comeback in 2019. Attendance is up. Enthusiasm is way up. And, for the first time in a long time, oil and gas industry attendees from both the software/IT and operational sides of the business are eager to invest — to keep themselves at the forefront of the Industry 4.0 movement.…

U.S. Senator and former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz (R-TX) will join U.S. Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Pen Test Partners Live-Hacker Ken Munro, Invatare CEO and former Statoil North America CIO Trond Ellefsen, and Sports Illustrated senior writer and best-selling author Ben Reiter as a keynote speaker confirmed to appear at the OilComm Conference and Exposition…

Speakers from more than a dozen major oil and gas production companies converged at Houston’s OilComm / FleetComm conference last week to explain why IIoT, cyber security, data analytics, AI, 5G, and other telecom innovations are driving a new kind of convergence within their organizations. Speaking on the event’s opening general session, Noble Energy Chief…