據油氣新聞網站7月2日消息 全球石油和天然氣行業要想從部署人工智能、大數據和分析、機器人和量子計算等先進數字技術中獲益，就需要接受新的商業思維和新的數字技能。

BP負責數字科學與工程的高級副總裁莫拉格?沃森在參加最新的阿布扎比石油展能源對話時表示，石油和天然氣行業在利用數字技術的可能性方面一直慢于其他行業，我們需在能源轉型中展開競爭并取得成功。

沃森表示：“對我來說，這不僅僅是技術問題，許多技術已經在相當快的軌道上運行了一段時間。這個行業必須開放思考，我們如何才能以不同的方式做事？”

“這并不是說這里有10個機器人會為你工作，且這樣并不行得通。你必須有正確的商業心態，才能讓技術從根本上改變你做事的方式。”

沃森強調，石油和天然氣行業仍處于數字技術如何幫助其應對能源轉型帶來的挑戰的開端，他表示，企業應在行業外尋找如何利用數字技術幫助自己保持成功的創新想法。

沃森舉例稱，BP投資500萬美元在Satelytics公司（一家基于云的地理空間分析軟件公司），該公司利用先進的光譜圖像和機器學習技術監測環境變化，包括甲烷排放量。沃森以此為例，說明BP如何在創新、改變游戲規則的技術和業務方面進行戰略投資可以幫助它重新構想全球能源系統。

王磊 摘譯自 油氣新聞

原文如下：

BP invests $5m in a cloud-based software firm

The global oil and gas industry needs to embrace a new business mindset and new digital skills if it is to reap the benefits from deploying advanced digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence, big data and analytics, robotics and quantum computing.

Participating in the latest Adipec Energy Dialogue, Morag Watson, BP senior vice president of digital science and engineering, said the oil and gas industry has been slower than other industries to open up to the possibilities of leveraging digital technologies in order to compete and succeed in the energy transition.

"For me it is not just about the technology," Watson said. "Many of the technologies have been on a reasonably fast trajectory for a while. The industry has to be open to thinking, how can we do things differently?

"It doesn't just happen by saying here are 10 robots that are going to do your work for you. It just doesn't work that way. You have to have the right business mindset to make it possible for the technology to radically change how you do things."

Highlighting the oil and gas industry is still at the beginning of how digital technologies can help it meet the challenges being created by the energy transition, Watson said companies should look outside the industry for innovative ideas on how to use digital technologies to help them stay successful.

Watson cited BP's $5 million investment in a Satelytics - a cloud-based geospatial analytics software company that uses advanced spectral imagery and machine learning to monitor environmental changes, including methane emissions - as an example of how BP is making strategic investments in innovative, game-changing technologies and businesses that can help it reimagine the global energy system.