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600 BCE
Oil is discovered by the Chinese
Oil is discovered by the Chinese in 600 B.C. and transported in pipelines made from bamboo -
20th Century Oil becomes an enegry soucre
By the 20th centry, oil is now becoming a main enegry soucre. -
Gas Wins over Kerosene
1919 Gas sales exceeded the sales of Kerosene -
Enron Scandal takes place
The Enron scandal, although was more of a financal scandal, it changed how oil and gas companies operated. -
Technology Enters the Picture
In the mid to late 90s technology began to creep into the oil and gas industry. These major breakthroughs have come in the fields of horizontal drilling, subsea engineering (especially deep water production), and hydraulic fracturing. -
IoT will become the future in oil and gas
Moving into the new phase of technology shows that IoT will become the new wave of technology that will allow companies to automate and streamline certain functions of drilling and more -
References
Digital Transformation Oil &Gas
http://reports.weforum.org/digital-transformation/wp-content/blogs.dir/94/mp/files/pages/files/dti-oil-and-gas-industry-white-paper.pdf) History 101 Oil & Gas
https://www.infoq.com/articles/digital-transformation-oil-gas