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Digital Innovations in Oil and Gas with Geoffrey Cann

Digital Innovations in Oil and Gas with Geoffrey Cann

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This is a weekly podcast of how #digital innovations will impact the global #oil and #gas sector, hosted by Geoffrey Cann, international author, professional speaker, and corporate trainer. Economía
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  • Tokenizing the Barrel: Rewiring Oil Markets from Molecule to Money

    Tokenizing the Barrel: Rewiring Oil Markets from Molecule to Money
    Apr 15 2026

    The global oil market still runs on a horribly fragmented system where physical barrels, paper contracts, and financial settlement operate in parallel but disconnected layers. Transactions are dependent on manual processes, emails, PDFs, and handshake relationships built over decades. For a trillion dollar industry, the core trading infrastructure remains slow, opaque, and largely inaccessible for all but the largest players.

    This creates real operational and financial constraints. Settlement delays can stretch to 90 days, tying up working capital and exposing companies to liquidity risk. Market access is hobbled by lengthy know-your-customer processes and high barriers to entry.

    Here in the spring of 2026, with the Strait of Hormuz blocked, these inefficiencies add up to systemic challenges that will make eventual recovery much harder than it needs to be.

    It's time for a new approach, one that digitizes the physical barrel itself. By tokenizing crude oil into smaller, tradable units, markets can accelerate settlement, improve transparency, and broaden participation. Imagine a token that represents a real, physical quantity of oil, enabling traceability across the supply chain and creating a new layer of market visibility. This also opens the door to fractional ownership and new forms of capital access that were previously unavailable.

    In this episode, I am speaking with Baron Lamarre, co-founder of INDEX, the International Digital Exchange, about how tokenization could fundamentally reshape oil trading. We explore the inefficiencies of today's system, the mechanics of turning barrels into digital assets, and why this shift could materially improve cash flow, transparency, and market access across the energy sector.

    👤 About The Guest

    Baron Lamarre is a petroleum economist and energy trading professional with more than 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He began his career at Petronas, where he worked across operations, logistics, and trading, managing products such as fuel oil, LPG, gasoline, crude oil, and naphtha.

    Over a 15-year tenure, he handled large-scale international trading portfolios, selling millions of barrels per month to major global buyers.

    Baron is now co-founder of INDEX, the International Digital Exchange, where he is focused on applying tokenization and blockchain technologies to modernize oil trading infrastructure.

    🌐 website: https://indexlitro.com

    ☎️ Contact: emily@energentmedia.net

    ⚒️ Additional Tools & Resources

    🎬 Go backstage and check out my studio:

    https://geoffreycann.com/mystudio/

    🎓 Take my one day digital strategy training course for oil and gas:

    https://www.udemy.com/course/digital-oil-and-gas/?referralCode=0161D4D49AB75735A185

    🔗 Connect with Me

    🖥️ Blog series: https://digitaloilgas.substack.com/

    🎧 Podcast: https://geoffreycann.com/broadcast/

    💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/advocate-digital-innovation-for-energy/

    🤬 X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/geoffreycann

    🎤 Contact for Lectures and Keynotes

    I speak regularly on these and other topics. Contact me to book a brief call about your upcoming event needs:

    https://geoffreycann.com/contact/

    ⚠️ Disclaimer

    The views expressed in this podcast are my own and do not constitute professional advice.
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    40 m
  • How to Reduce Waste in Capital Projects: Using Execution Intelligence To Fix Broken Coordination

    How to Reduce Waste in Capital Projects: Using Execution Intelligence To Fix Broken Coordination
    Mar 25 2026
    Large-scale capital projects sit at the heart of the oil and gas industry, and across all infrastructure sectors (power, petrochemicals, rail, water, telecoms). These projects require tight coordination of people, equipment, and timelines, often under pressure to deliver quickly and safely. Despite heavy investment in planning tools and scheduling systems, the day-to-day reality remains fragmented, with teams working across disconnected systems and making decisions in isolation. The issue is not a shortage of data, but a lack of connected context. Teams make decisions that work locally, but cannot see the ripple effects across the broader project. When disruptions occur, such as missing materials or shifting priorities, organizations fall back on manual replanning, pulling experts together to work through scenarios. The result is familiar: delays, rework, misalignment, and a persistent focus on reacting to problems rather than anticipating them. A new approach is emerging that focuses on execution intelligence, not just planning. These systems sit across existing tools, capture real-time context, and use AI to recommend next steps while keeping humans in control. Instead of replacing systems like P6, they enhance them, helping teams understand what matters most today and how decisions impact the wider system. This allows experienced staff to apply judgment more effectively, while also enabling less experienced team members to make better decisions faster. In this episode, I am speaking with Cali Collins, Chief Product Officer at Optimality, about how fragmented decision-making slows down capital projects and why execution—not planning—is where projects succeed or fail. We explore how AI can surface hidden dependencies, improve decision quality, and help teams navigate complex trade-offs in real time. 👤 About The Guest Cali Collins is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Optimality, an AI-native decision infrastructure platform redefining how organizations structure, optimize, and scale decision-making in an era of overwhelming data and competing priorities. She is an experienced product leader with a background spanning AI infrastructure, knowledge systems, estimating, enterprise transformation, and large-scale capital project execution. Cali specializes in translating complex operational challenges into scalable product strategies, bridging business, technical architecture, and real-world execution across both startups and Fortune 50 environments. ⚒️ Additional Tools & Resources 🌐 Website: https://optimalitypro.com 💼 LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/optimalitypro/ 📧 Email Cali: cali@optimalitypro.com 🎬 Go Backstage https://geoffreycann.com/mystudio/ 🎓 Take My one day course https://www.udemy.com/course/digital-oil-and-gas/?referralCode=0161D4D49AB75735A185 🔗 Connect with Me 🖥️ Blog series: https://digitaloilgas.substack.com/ 🎧 Podcast: https://geoffreycann.com/broadcast/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/advocate-digital-innovation-for-energy/ 🤬 X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/geoffreycann 🎤 Contact Me I speak regularly on these and other topics. Contact me to book a brief call about your upcoming event needs: https://geoffreycann.com/contact/ ⚠️ Disclaimer The views expressed in this podcast are my own and do not constitute professional advice.
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  • The Carbon Credibility Crisis: We Need Trustworthy Carbon Data

    The Carbon Credibility Crisis: We Need Trustworthy Carbon Data
    Mar 18 2026

    One thing I've learned from producing lots of videos is that you can't really trust with your own eyes what you see presented to you anymore. Green screens, video editing, and AI are so good now, and so inexpensive, that anyone can create compellingvideo content of scenes that didn't happen in real life.

    As a result, I'm now very skeptical of claims that companies make that they don't offer to back up. Consider the 'organic' chicken at the butcher shop. How do you really know that the chicken has led an exemplary life free from chemicals, pesticides, and growth hormones?

    Carbon emissions fall into this category. Carbon dioxide, the invisible by-product of engine output and cement making, has become the poster child for energy transition. Today, producers and (some) consumers are expected to not only reduce carbon emissions but account for them with surgical precision. Yet we need to face an uncomfortable fact: carbon data lacks credibility.

    It's assembled from fragmented systems, manually reported and manipulated, or derived from engineering models. It's no wonder that financial markets are skeptically treating carbon credits with such low valuations. Carbon accounting is a hot mess.

    ⚒️ Additional Tools & Resources

    🎬 Go backstage and check out my studio:

    https://geoffreycann.com/mystudio/

    🎓Take my one-day digital strategy training course for oil and gas:

    https://www.udemy.com/course/digital-oil-and-gas/?referralCode=0161D4D49AB75735A185

    🔗 Connect with Me

    📘Blog series: https://digitaloilgas.substack.com/

    🎧 Podcast: https://geoffreycann.com/broadcast/

    💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/advocate-digital-innovation-for-energy/

    🐦 X: https://x.com/geoffreycann

    🎤 Contact for Lectures and Keynotes

    I speak regularly on these and related topics. Contact me to book a brief call about your upcoming event needs.

    👉 https://geoffreycann.com/contact/

    ⚠️ Disclaimer

    The views expressed in this podcast are my own and do not constitute professional advice.
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    8 m
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