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Operations Leaders

The oil and gas industry has consistently focused on improving its operations, particularly as production costs rise, refinement margins come under pressure, and labor shortages persist, along with an increasing pressure to reduce risks and enhance sustainability. These challenges collectively amplify the need and value for Operational Excellence (OpEx), enabling...

In October 2022, Schlumberger announced its new name – SLB – and its transition from the world’s largest oilfield services company to a global technology company focused on driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. As they became SLB, the need to evolve the company culture arose to support the...

Operational Excellence in Oil and Gas 2023 welcomed over 300 of the industry’s leading operational professionals to Houston, for three days of interactive discussions, debate and creative thinking to discuss how to drive operational excellence and tackle the larger economic challenges facing industry.In the 2023 Post Show Report we take...

Whether it’s quiet quitting, the great resignation, changing workforce demographics or the perceived “dirtiness” of the industry, the oil and gas sector has been struggling to recruit and retain the talent it needs. The industry has been particularly hard hit by a convergence of long-standing trends: retiring baby boomers, a...

How do biggest players in the oil and gas industry support Operational Excellence through Digital Transformation? Get Insights from Chevron Phillips Chemical, Phillips66, Delek US, Dow, EDF Renewables, bp, Buckeye Partners and QuarterNorth Energy today!Improvements in digital technology have enabled oil and gas companies to dramatically increase efficiency and improve...

Recorded live at Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit 2022! Delfina Govia of Oil & Gas Global Network (OGGN), the world's leading Oil & Gas podcast network, sits down with Grigor Bambekov, Senior Executive Leader, Excellence, Innovation, Digital and Business Transformation, to discuss his experience in the Oil &...

EXECUTIVE BOARDROOMFORGING COLLABORATION: DATA AND AI DRIVEN OIL & GASTuesday November 5, 2024To deliver on the promise of data-driven operations, digital oil and gas leaders at the forefront are infusing AI into every facet of their operations to optimize production, sustainability and operational efficiencies.The challenges of Chief Data Officers, Chief...

This past November, the 15th Annual Operational Excellence in Oil and Gas Summit welcomed over 250+ senior oil and gas professionals to share how they are reducing risk, cost, and complexity in their operations. 2024 marked a special anniversary for the event, celebrating 15 years running, and over a decade...

Explore the 2024 Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Exhibition Hall Floor Plan!With booths already confirmed by the likes of Celonis, Hexagon, BluePrism, Baker Hughes, and so many more, spaces to join us are now limited to just 5 booths!Find the right booth for you and build on your event...

Now in its 16th year, the Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit brought together over 300 senior level executives to share use cases and discover trailblazing technologies that will transform their operations.Network with your top senior level prospects this November in Texas. Download your copy of the Sponsorship Prospectus...

Wondering who you'll meet at the Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit? Download your copy of the sample attendee list for a glimpse at who joins us each year.

One from the archives - In the lead up to the 2019 Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit in Houston, we caught up with Sheryl Corrigan, Director, Environment, Health & Safety, Koch Industries. Here, Sheryl provides insight into how the company is working to create next-generation leak detection technology...

From the archives - In the lead up to the 2019 Operational Excellence in Oil and Gas Summit in Houston, we caught up with Chris Humes, Senior Vice President of Operations at Crestwood Midstream. Chris provides insight into how the company has saved $14 million in operating costs while simultaneously...

From the archives - In the Oil & Gas Industry, Continuous Improvement plays an essential role in reducing costs, improving margins and driving organizational growth. In this exclusive interview with Michiel Van Noort, Global Head of Continuous Improvement, Downstream, at Royal Dutch Shell, we discuss the company’s holistic approach to...

From the archives - In the lead up to this year’s Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit, we sat down with Kal Johnson, Director of HSSE at Cameron LNG. Kal is accountable for developing and implementing an overarching corporate and operations HSSE management system, while maintaining strategic security infrastructure...

From the archives - In the lead up to the 2019 Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit in Houston, we caught up with Robert Hutcherson, founder and CEO of Optimize Consulting as well as author of Organizational Optimization. As one of this year’s speakers, Robert provides insight into his...

From the archives - Jim Claunch, Vice President of Business Efficiency at Equinor shares his unique insights on the digital transformation of oil and gas companies and the barriers facing companies on this transformation journey.  Jim has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry and shares...

Operational Excellence cannot be just a series of initiatives or spot improvements. For oil and gas companies that wish to truly drive operational excellence, it must be embedded into daily business operations and supported from the top. That means it must be instilled in the mindset and behaviors of all...

From the archives - In the lead up to the Operational Excellence in Oil and Gas Summit, we had the pleasure of catching up with Sheryl Corrigan, Director of Environmental, Health & Safety at Koch Industries. With over  thirty years experience in the environmental, health and safety arena and 12...

Operational excellence requires a degree of stability to understand processes and identify ways to improve them.But how do you improve processes and maintain the gains when the macro economic climate is constantly changing how you operate? You’ve got to find the Goldilocks zone, according to Sean Barnes, VP, Corporate Operations,...

From the archives - In the lead up to the Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit, we sat down with Hugo Ashkar, Global Risk Manager at BP, to discuss his work in human performance and the role of human factors in overall risk management.

From the archives - In the lead up to the 2019 Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit in Houston, we caught up with Grigor Bambekov, Director, Performance & Business Excellence at Andeavor Logistics. As one of this year’s speakers, Grigor provides insight into how the company is maintaining its vision...

From the archives - In the lead up to the 2019 Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas Summit in Houston, we caught up with Julie Thyne, North America Continuous Improvement Lead at The Dow Chemical Company. Julie provides insight into how the company is driving reliability improvements by speaking directly...

From the archives - In this new and exclusive interview, Cynthia Hansen, Executive Vice President of Utilities and Power Operations at Enbridge, shares her insight on how high-risk businesses can enable safe and reliable operations during times of transformation.

From the archives - Mark Hutcherson, Director of Operations Excellence at ConocoPhillips, discusses how the American energy giant is taking the next step toward digital transformation and driving real time production optimization.In this exclusive interview, Mark shares powerful insights on how ConocoPhillips is fostering a culture of technology adoption, as...

Graciela Perez, Global Manager at Chevron, shares how the global oil and gas giant is leveraging human factors and data analytics as part of their Lean Transformation.Download the interview to learn how human factors, linked together with Lean Six Sigma, has helped Chevron facilitate change management, improve cross functional learning,...

Exclusive interview with Jim Wetherbee, the only American astronaut to have commanded five missions in space, a former Vice President of Operational Leadership at BP and author of the recently published “Controlling Risk"! In this exclusive interview, Jim discusses the ten common adverse conditions that existed in companies that experienced...