Data as an asset: What the oil and gas sector can learn from other industries about "Big Data"

Energy Policy

Volumn 81, Issue , 2015, Pages 117-121

  Perrons, Robert K ^a,b   Jensen, Jesse W ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Data; Information technologies; Oil and gas

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED ANALYTICS; BIG DATA; DATA ANALYTICS; GASES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

DATA; DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MASSIVE DATA SETS; OIL AND GAS; OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY; OIL AND GAS SECTOR; UPSTREAM OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY;

GAS INDUSTRY;

DATA MANAGEMENT; DATA PROCESSING; GAS INDUSTRY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OIL INDUSTRY;

EID: 84926374987     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.02.020     Document Type: Article

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