Integrated Operations in the Oil and Gas Industry: Sustainability and Capability Development

The predicted “ICT revolution” has gained increasing attention in the oil industry the last few years. It is enabled by the use of ubiquitous real time data, collaborative techniques, and multiple expertises across disciplines, organizations and geographical locations. Integrated Operations in the Oil and Gas Industry: Sustainability and Capability Development covers the capability approach to integrated operations that documents research and development in the oil industry. By ‘capability’, we refer to the combined capacity and ability to plan and execute in accordance with business objectives through a designed combination of human skills, work processes, organizational change, and technology. This book will serve as a knowledge base for those who are interested in learning about, and those involved in, Integrated Operations in the Oil and Gas Industry.

Tom Rosendahl is associate professor in market communication at BI Norwegian Business School, Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour. He holds a PhD degree from the Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Gothenburg University, Sweden. His professional interests include marketing communication, cross-cultural communication, project communication, change management, and understanding the development in Integrated Operations. He has published widely and is the author/editor of 14 books, His latest books are entitled "Marketing in a Cross Disciplinary Perspective" (2008) and "Project Communication" (2010).

Vidar Hepsø holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from NTNU and is currently Principal Researcher/Project Manager at Statoil R&D in Trondheim Norway. He is also Adjunct Professor at the NTNU Center for Integrated operations in the Petroleums Industry. His main interests are related to new types of collaboration enabled by new information and communication technology (ICT) in general and in particular ICT-infrastucture development, capability platforms and collaboration technologies. The main work area the last 8-10 years has been within 'Integrated Operations' (IO) .Within this field of activities he is involved in both planning, execution and evaluation of IO activities in Statoil in addition to being project manager and a resource for branch specific research and development of IO in both Norway and internationally.