Technology makes the oil and gas visible.
This means that we can likely get a perceptive view of the look and feel of the oil and gas industry of the future by looking at where these far-field industries are today . Consider, for example, the origins of one of the oil industry's major technological breakthroughs of the 1990's, horizontal drilling. The added information from the precessing of hydrogen atoms within pore fluids has dramatically improved our formation evaluation capabilities, particularly in low-resistivity pay intervals. These MRI logging tools have greatly improved our ability to distinguish movable hydrocarbons from water and brine. The Network Force hunting submarines.