I am often asked which disruptive technologies will thrive in the oil and gas sector and what impact they will have on the industry. If I had been asked this question three or four years ago I would have said that it was unlikely that any would make a significant impression given the high oil price and the value being generated all through the supply chain. But how things changed, and quickly. The oil price crashed and the operators were scrambling around in almost unseemly haste to unlock the potential of disruption. The key word became digitisation and the benefits it could bring to a sector that was paying the price for decades of poor cost management, lack of standardization and a risk adverse nature that bordered on technophobia.