Augmented Reality (AR) in Oil and Gas \u2013 Thematic Research<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, states that the next few years will be crucial for the oil and gas industry. As pressure from investors for energy transition mounts, oil and gas companies will need to recruit a new generation of workers to undertake this mammoth task.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFrancesca Gregory, Associate Analyst at GlobalData, comments: \u201cOil and gas companies have received a battering in recent years, with COVID-19 having lasting effects on demand for particular oil products. In addition, the Russia-Ukraine conflict has caused price hikes, shrouding the sector in uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The industry is suffering from an aging workforce, which has left it brittle in the face of change. Pandemic-related disruption has caused the long-term skills shortage to take a backseat and, as the Russia-Ukraine crisis looms large, there is a risk that the industry\u2019s internal weak points will go unaddressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gregory continues: \u201cOil and gas companies must expedite the training of younger workers and pursue more flexible ways of working to maximize knowledge capture from retiring workers. Emerging technologies such as AR will be a vital piece of the puzzle for knowledge capture and transfer. AR headsets allow for remote collaboration between field workers and experts. This enables semi-retired workers to work from home while still providing support to field technicians, overlaying annotations and instructions onto their field of view.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enterprise spending on AR is forecast to reach $100 billion in 2030 and the oil and gas industry will be one of its key markets, with major oil and gas companies such as Shell, Exxon Mobil, and TotalEnergies integrating the technology into their businesses. This early adoption has been catalyzed by the development of rugged AR headsets such as the XR10 version of the HoloLens 2, as well as software products that are cybersecure and can operate under low bandwidth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gregory concludes: \u201cAs industrial designs become more ergonomic, we can expect adoption to accelerate. Oil and gas companies will be key players with AR holding the potential to substantially increase the efficiency of workflows in the upstream sector. Companies that fail to capitalise on emerging technologies such as AR will continue to have a slow training process, creating a skills gap in their workforce further down the line.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitics, and energy transition expectations have caused the oil and gas industry\u2019s skills gap to slip down company\u2019s agendas, says GlobalData. According to the leading data and analytics company, the industry needs to capitalise on emerging technologies such as augmented reality (AR) to accelerate the training of a new generation of workers …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,106],"tags":[3043,3042,162,246,161],"class_list":["post-21598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-news-views-and-opinion","category-oil-gas","tag-ar","tag-augmented-reality","tag-gas","tag-globaldata","tag-oil"],"yoast_head":"\n
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