economy
Marco Annunziata: Through the Looking Glass
How to cut through the global economic madness to assess real prospects for growth.
Looking at the global economy can feel like we have gone among the mad people:
- Some interest rates are negative — you have to pay in order to lend.
- Financial papers call for “helicopter money” in a Eurozone that is growing above potential.
- Innovation is moving at its fastest pace but productivity at its slowest.
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Electrification Software Energy
Marco Annunziata: Oil Prices Got You Down?
The sharp decline in oil prices has placed them squarely at the center of the global economic debate. Many see low oil prices as evidence that the world economy has lost steam. Stock markets jump anxiously at every piece of news coming from the oil market.
The market story is important. But more important is that the oil and gas market is undergoing a deeper and more complex transformation, one that will have powerful repercussions over the coming decades.
Electrification Software Energy
The Digital Energy Mix: Securing & Sustaining the Future
Electrification Software Energy
The Electron’s Digital Journey: Do You Know Where Your Power Comes From?
collaboration
Elisabeth B. Kvalheim: Energy Collaboration Key to Competing in a Low-Carbon World
For the oil & gas industry, collaboration means competitiveness in tomorrow’s low-carbon reality.
The future of energy is heavily dependent on the collective ability — and determination — of the oil and gas industry itself to evolve and stay competitive in tomorrow’s low-carbon reality.
And to stay competitive — over the longer term — we need to drive simplification, standardization and productivity, but also radical innovation. The challenge is too large for any one company to tackle alone.
water-energy
Kevin Moss and Debora Frodl: Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity
The water-energy nexus presents a growing challenge for many parts of the world. We need collaboration among the public and private sector to come up with creative solutions to resource scarcity.
Energy
Lorenzo Simonelli: Let’s Have the Courage to Change the Things We Can
Instead of living in fear of uncertainty in oil markets, we must think creatively and collaboratively to change the future of the industry.
I won’t be the first oil executive to tell you that we live in a time of great uncertainty. The most visible indicator of that uncertainty is today’s low oil price and the impact that is having on our industry: on investment, on jobs, on our employees, their families and communities.
oil prices
Marcelle Arak and Sheila Tschinkel: Why Do Oil Prices Keep Going Down?
Despite declining prices, oil producers and consumers haven't shown much inclination to change their behavior. Here's why.
Global stock markets have been in a tailspin. And the sinking price of oil received at least some of the blame.
VR
Dan Jackson: 7 Oil & Gas Jobs That Will Exist in the Future
Over the coming decades, all industries will be transformed by converging technological trends that dramatically alter how companies do business. This will undoubtedly lead to many current jobs becoming obsolete. However, technological change will also create countless new roles that companies will need to fill.
We’re future-gazing and fast-forwarding to 2040, where we’re looking at the most in-demand jobs in the offshore oil and gas industry.
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