Ministry of Oil: A need to adopt digital transformation programs by companies

INA – Baghdad
 
Ministry of Oil stressed on Monday, the need to proceed with the adoption of digital transformation programs by oil companies as soon as possible.
 
"Ministry of Oil is keen to develop administrative and technical performance in all its formations, according to the adoption of modern systems and programs for management in oil sector, with the aim of achieving the highest financial and economic returns, by developing, enhancing and sustaining production rates,” said the Undersecretary for Extraction Affairs, Karim Hattab, a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
 
This came during Hattab’s attendance on behalf of Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail, in a workshop on digital transformation organized by the Department of Training and Development with Schlumberger International Company.
 
"This scientific workshop comes in implementation of the directives of the Minister of Oil in promoting the Ministry's plans to support adopting modern technology in management, planning, implementation and accelerating the adoption and dissemination of modern digital mechanisms and programs and their applications in order to develop work in all facilities of the oil sector, which is positively reflected on the plans production rates and in enhancing financial revenues, in line with sustainable development plans that support the national economy,” Hattab indicated.
 
He noted that the adoption of modern software and technologies “will reduce spending and errors, in addition to accelerating work and achievement thanks to the high flexibility it achieves at work”.
 
"Digital transformation is one of the ministry's priorities for adoption in all administrative and technical sectors of work, which enhances this by upgrading the infrastructure and the culture of work," he stressed, adding "there is a need to proceed with the procedures for adopting these programs by the oil companies as soon as possible," noting that "the ministry is working this issue for some time and has made important and advanced steps in this regard,”
 
The Director General of the Department of Training and Development, Basim Muhammad Khudair, said, "The ministry adopts modern training programs and implements cooperation plans with international expertise that aim to raise the level of performance and sound management in a manner that achieves the goals with the least financial costs and physical effort," noting that "work to attract all sober scientific energies and employing them to achieve the goals of raising the efficiency and skill of workers, especially in administrative and technical performance, as well as working to gain experience in order to develop the joints of work in all formations of the ministry,”
 
He pointed out that "the workshop, which was held in cooperation with the "Schlumberger" company, dealt with one of the important topics in modern management,"
 
For his part, Vice President of the Schlumberger branch in Iraq, Saad Al-Dhamin, said during his introductory speech to the program, that “digital transformation will improve performance and open great prospects for growth through the use of modern technologies, and that digital transformation is an overlap of technologies, large information and artificial intelligence, and leads to Developing performance for the better,”
 
Al-Dhamin explained that, “digital transformation will give flexibility and speed in performance, shorten time and increase revenues, as well as modernize the work of institutions and make them more efficient,” noting that “digital transformation contributes to developing competencies, reducing spending, accelerating the way of work and increasing productivity,”
 
He added, "The company is ready to conduct training courses in cooperation with the Training and Development Department for the competent staff in the ministry to implement the digital transformation program,"