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27 Feb 2018
Insight
London
The oil and gas sector faces a new wave of challenges and opportunities as a result of technological innovation and disruption. Over the coming decades, ever-hastening advances in technology – from machine learning to robotic automation – will have a profound impact on the way that oil and gas reserves are located, extracted, distributed and consumed.
To survive and thrive, oil and gas companies will need to adopt radically new strategies to integrate these new technologies across the value chain whilst continuing to navigate complex regulatory environments, geopolitical risk, disputes and market disruption.
This article considers key legal issues which both incumbent participants and new market entrants will need to navigate effectively in order to succeed in a digitised oil and gas market, be they investors, operators or off-takers.
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