Digital transformation is now a global buzzword, regardless of the industry in which it is applied. In the oil and gas industry, the term is sometimes used interchangeably with ‘integrated operations’ or ‘integrated oilfield.’ Whichever terminology is chosen to describe the movement, the key concept revolves around the effort to increase profitability by creating paths of communication between people, processes, multiple data sources, databases and software applications, which have never ‘talked’ to each other before. Technical Toolboxes is a global provider of desktop and cloud-based pipeline engineering software, and has observed in many case studies how improved communication helps operators gain added insights into the status of equipment and operations, which may have previously been overlooked if close attention was not being paid to the data.
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