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solutions to societies’ greatest gas investments between now and Large companies are adjusting their challenges will come from?,” 46% 2035, with China driving 40% of business models, complimenting of attendees chose private sector; the increase. He noted that cyber in-house services (storage, test 38% chose entrepreneurs & others; security is a large concern and evnironments) with web-based 13% academia; and only 3% refered to the company’s white services. But smaller companies are government. paper (updated last month) that able to make decisions faster and addresses alignment of interests, leap straight to the cloud, said Adam

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Energy Forum situation awareness, and the need Hems, industry technology strategist

Microsoft Corp hosted its 10th to de? ne “risk-based strategies in Microsoft’s worldwide oil & gas,

Global Energy Forum in late whereas larger companies are using

January, where oil & gas industry aspects of the cloud to run their

The shift to clients presented case studies of operations more ef? ciently. Renting sophisticated, enterprise-wide compute power capacity is cheaper cloud-based services technology solutions. More than and more ef? cient than growing is underway, and 700 people attended GEF2013, internal data centers, for instance.

from 134 companies – oil and gas Chevron’s William Gilmore the economics are majors, independents, drilling discussed development of the overwhelming.

services, petrochemical, EPIC, and company’s new PetroTechnical technology service providers. Portal, being rolled out to its and policies that range from the The company is getting deeper business units. The focus was protection of the entire supply into the energy industry, said to improve engineering team chain to a sustained investment in Microsoft’s Ali Ferling, managing productivity by integrating data, innovation.” director, worldwide oil & gas and automating information collection, The shift to cloud-based services mining, citing remote access and and archiving. Engineering staff mobility as key factors in developing is underway, particularly at smaller typically spend one-third to two- companies, and the economics “connected experiences.” Ferling thirds of their time working on are overwhelming, Ferling said. projects US$40 trillion in oil and data, Gilmore said. Streamlining

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