Finding New Pathways in the Post-Pandemic Oil and Gas Industry

摘要

In the best of times, AAPG's Director of Innovation and Emerging Science/ Technology Susan Nash has to weigh the costs and benefits of "the next big thing" out there for the industry, separating the helpful from the hyperbolic, to see which new advancements will have the greatest impact on how the industry moves forward. But undertaking all that in the middle of a pandemic is a whole new ballgame, for it makes an industry - especially one like the oil and gas industry - take stock of exactly what the possibilities and ramifications will be when the future landscape has been so transfigured by recent events that it is almost unrecognizable from anything that preceded it. This very dynamic was something Nash started to think about before the full extent of COVID-19 could be felt in the spring of 2020. She wondered about how to put together a forum for industry leaders to discuss, at the time, the industry's current predicament and the murky horizon.