Special reports

The Canadian oil and gas industry is facing some of the biggest challenges in its history. A global pandemic has shaken a sector already undermined by a persistent glut of oil, anemic commodity prices, market access issues and mounting climate pressures. It is a potentially existential crisis through which only the best-equipped companies will thrive. Those companies will increasingly be digital. 

Through an extensive survey of oil and gas professionals, the 2020 report captures the current state of adoption of the long anticipated Digital Oilfield in Canada.  

How can artificial intelligence and machine learning enable Alberta to thrive in a competitive, low-carbon world? With the support of the RBC Foundation, the Energy Futures Lab (EFL) has been exploring the intersection between artificial intelligence, machine learning, energy and climate since fall 2018.

Energy Excellence Awards nominees work together to answer Canada’s oil and gas challenges.

Read this post report providing insights into leading edge and future-oriented research on low carbon transport, along with their implications for Alberta—including the challenges of developing biofuels, lithium, and hydrogen industries within Alberta.

The oil and gas industry is responsible for 42 per cent of methane released into the atmosphere, says Environment Canada, so reducing emissions from industry facilities has great potential to further position Alberta as a clean energy supplier in the future.How can we accelerate progress and thrive in a more competitive, low carbon future?

The global energy ecosystem is transitioning to lower a carbon future in an effort to battle climate change, presenting opportunities and challenges for Alberta's energy producers and suppliers. Learn more about the Energy.AI workshop and the key recommendations by downloading the post report today!

Digitalization of the energy industry will have a profound effect on aspects of operational efficiency, capital, operating and general and administrative cost reduction, and environmental performance, presenting both risk and opportunity to Canada's oil and gas sector. PTAC’s Digital Disruption workshop highlighted the potential and challenges digitalization offers. Learn more by downloading the post report today.

Recently, JWN Energy hosted Achieving Better Technology Validation & Adoption Success. This event brought together stakeholders to identify the barriers and advance the solutions to improve technology validation and adoption. JWN has compiled a summary report outlining the key findings from the discussion.

The energy industry operates in a complex environment across multiple geographies in highly intricate business models across subsidiaries, joint venture and supplier/subcontractor relationships. These factors make the energy industry ripe to benefit from blockchain advantages such as digitalizing and simplifying transactions, enhancing security and fraud prevention, and cost reduction and accelerated efficiency.