The oil and gas industry is currently confronted with various difficulties, which include difficult climatic conditions that determine the difficulty of recovering hydrocarbon resources, reducing oil recovery, flooding of wells, etc. With ever-increasing demand for oil and gas raw materials, there are difficulties in technological security and safety. In this regard, oil and gas companies are in dire need of digitalization of production, able to provide high performance, safety and monitoring of production processes. The world’s largest oil companies widely use the methods of managing their oil and gas assets based on intellectual technologies, which are tools to improve economic efficiency.
The article discusses the experience of digitalization in the world’s largest oil companies, contributing to improving the quality of asset management and increasing their competitiveness, describes the advantages of using digital technologies in the oil and gas industry. The experience of introducing “intelligent” technologies has shown their high efficiency in oil production processes and in reducing economic costs.
Key words: digital industry, digital field, intellectual technologies, digitalization, Big Data, intellectual field, oil production, efficiency, global oil companies, remote control.
