[kramerger]

I can actually see this happening.

Obviously a fortune 500 CEO does not know jack about IT. But someone has raised the alarm on the price hike and presented a few possible solutions, that have reached all the way to the board.

Given the high risk, tight schedule, and the amount of work something like this must be driven by the CEO (or at least directly sponsored by him) or it will not happen.

[olavgg]

This is not from a fortune 500 company, but I know the CEO in a BIG oil & gas company and that CEO do in fact know a lot about IT & computer science. He is in fact a big fan of Neo4j, and gets really frustrated when he talk to software architects/developers that have never heard about neo4j or graph databases.

He also knows about Linux and license free virtualization. But making a move requires people, and people with Linux knowledge are very rare.

[retcore]

Data science and tools are especially critical to oil and gas management. Including downstream: refineries are built for the qualities of available discovery and take as long to plan. Anticipating the availability, extraction costs and chemistry of a new deposit is a major advantage to anyone in the industry. I was given, cold, a six figure number of barrels of Kazakh crude to market, three years before the standard blend was assessed. That was fun...

[shiftpgdn]

I looked at your profile and was surprised to see we don't work for the same company!