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Digital Doers: Who Knew a Switch Could Be So Smart? What happens when you take one of industry’s oldest technologies — the humble electrical switch — and give it a digital brain? In this episode of Digital Doers, I sit down with Scott Sorensen from Sprecher + Schuh to explore the surprisingly important role of…

Everyone talks about digital transformation, AI and changing the entire enterprise. Terence did something much simpler. He found one problem in a midstream project, tracking project management and maintenance that was being managed in Excel — and decided to fix it leveraging his core technical skills and developed www.oilandgasworks.com Maybe that’s how digital transformation should…

This episode of Digital Doers features Casey Thames sitting down with Sameer Shah, Lead Telecommunication Engineer at Bechtel, for a conversation about the critical infrastructure that powers modern energy facilities but often goes unnoticed: telecommunications.Drawing on nearly two decades of experience supporting LNG, petrochemical, refining, and industrial projects around the world, Sameer shares how communications…

Reality Capture and Digital Twins What if you could walk through an oil & gas facility without being there? In this episode, Jason Duff speaks with Noah Eckhous of NavVis about using LiDAR, cameras and SLAM to capture industrial facilities and create detailed digital environments. The conversation explores how reality capture can support: But capturing…

From paper tickets to AI agents — what does it really take to get digital into the field? In this episode of Digital Doers, Jason Duff sits down with Michael Maltsev, founder and CEO of RigER, to talk about the realities of digital transformation in oilfield services. RigER has spent more than a decade tackling…

Sponsored by Ericsson – Driving oil and gas forward with seamless connectivity. This episode of Digital Doers features Casey Thames sitting down with David Smith, Vice President of Innovation and Technology at Black Pearl Technology, for a conversation about a side of industrial innovation that most people never see. While many companies receive credit for…

Sponsored by Ericsson – Driving oil and gas forward with seamless connectivity. This episode of Digital Doers features Casey Thames sitting down with Aaron Ladwig, Founder and Principal Engineer at Velox, for a conversation about one of the less-discussed challenges facing the energy industry: not every company has the engineering resources needed to turn good…

Sponsored by Ericsson – Driving oil and gas forward with seamless connectivity. This conversation features Casey Thames sitting down with Swapnil Bhadauria and Ben Williams of EY to discuss why digital transformation remains one of the most talked-about initiatives in oil and gas, yet many organizations still struggle to move beyond pilots, dashboards, and disconnected…

Sponsored by Ericsson – Driving oil and gas forward with seamless connectivity. This episode of Digital Doers features Casey Thames sitting down with Curt Finch, founder and CEO of Journyx, to discuss how workforce and project time data can evolve from a simple payroll function into a strategic operational tool. The conversation explores how Journyx…

Sponsored by Ericsson – Driving oil and gas forward with seamless connectivity. This conversation features Casey Thames sitting down with Dr. Péter Fankhauser, CEO of ANYbotics, and Dr. Darius Ngo, Senior Vice President at Yokogawa, to discuss how robotics, industrial AI, and operational technology are beginning to reshape inspection and monitoring across industrial operations. The…