Innovation can offer many solutions to the challenges that the well planning community faces, from early planning through to delivery. How people think about, behave, and respond to new technology has been found to act as a significant facilitating or blocking factor for change and technology uptake in the oil and gas industry. In this session we will hear from a range of speakers who will provide insight and advice on how to address these people barriers to improve the well planning process.
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Innovation can offer many solutions to the challenges that the well planning community faces, from early planning through to delivery. How people think about, behave, and respond to new technology has been found to act as a significant facilitating or blocking factor for change and technology uptake in the oil and gas industry. In this session we will hear from a range of speakers who will provide insight and advice on how to address these people barriers to improve the well planning process.
Panelists
Dr. Ruby Roberts
Dr Ruby Roberts is an industrial psychologist at the Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University. She will discuss recent research examining the psychological factors that influence technology adoption decisions in upstream oil and gas. Providing insight into these people factors, she will also outline recommendations for facilitating technology adoption and developing an organisational culture that values innovation.
Hugo Matias & Colin Higgins
Hugo Matias, a lecturer at the University of Lisbon, and Collin Higgins, a Wells Manager at Siccar Point Energy, will share their wealth of knowledge and experience of people factors in the well planning process. Hugo will discuss the ups and downs of working with high performance, multi-cultural teams, with advice on how to turn a nightmare into a dream team. Finally, Colin will provide insight into working with multidisciplinary teams and how they can enable effective well planning and delivery.
More to come at the AAPG GTW Well Planning and Delivery in Unprecedented Times which will take place on the 8-9th Feb 2022 in Geneva.