Digitalisation is changing how engineering specialists will find and perform oil and gas jobs, with remote and flexible working now becoming normal for the majority of oil and gas projects. This flexibility and the benefit of no longer having to commute means that companies who embrace this technological change will end up with a happier and more loyal workforce. In addition, this will appeal to millennials who are increasingly shunning oil and gas jobs for industries that aren’t blamed for killing the planet.

Flexibility is also likely to be a key tool in helping the O&G industry approach the skills gap, with flexible working allowing companies to support employees with families meaning less oil and gas industry professionals leaving for a childcare enforced career break.

But digitalisation isn’t all good news for the engineering specialist workforce. Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and automation will potentially remove the need for certain roles, however saying when this will happen is not yet clear. Subsurface analysis has been highlighted as the immediate area for an artificial intelligence workforce, as the high salaries employees earn combined with an already analytical and software based skillset means that machine learning should one day be able to spot a reservoir anticline as quickly as a 40 year geologist veteran.

There is however no need to worry yet, oil and gas companies aren’t exactly quick at adopting new technologies, and if we are to believe the news oil and gas jobs will be killed off by green technologies long before AI takes hold.

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