Oil and gas industry players embracing AI and other tech

Haul trucks, shovels, pumps and pipes are common sights at Imperial Oil’s vast oil sands operations in northeastern Alberta, but so too are robots and drones, with generative artificial intelligence a newer addition to the technological mix. “We’ve been laser-focused on this digital journey since 2018,” Cheryl Gomez-Smith, the senior executive in charge of Imperial’s production, told a recent investor conference.