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Simon Cushing

Sr Director Analyst

Simon Cushing is a Research Director in the Energy and Utilities team, focused on the upstream oil and gas industry. Mr. Cushing has more than 30 years international oil and gas experience in IT consulting, operations management, business development and leadership.

Previous experience

Mr. Cushing joined Gartner from a firm specializing in upstream exploration and production data and information management, petrotechnical reservoir modeling and production management technologies where he ran the Professional Services organization and the Solutions Group providing strategy consulting.

Having begun his career offshore with Schlumberger, Mr. Cushing worked in geophysical surveying before joining Halliburton where he held consulting, operational management and business development roles. He has specialized in the application of digital and information management technologies to business performance. As a consultant, Mr. Cushing has advised oil and gas companies of all types across the asset life cycle in areas including data and information management, enterprise architecture, upstream interpretation and modeling technology, and digital oil field technologies.

Mr. Cushing's leadership roles have included Head of Professional Services for an oil and gas consulting firm and Head of Solutions where he established the company technical strategy and managed strategic consulting.

He has extensive experience working with supermajors, national oil companies and independents in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.

Professional background

Halliburton, Operations Manager, Managing Consultant, Business Development Manager, 11 years

Venture Information Management, Head of Professional Services and Head of Solutions, 12 years

Schlumberger and Others, Field Engineer, Seismologist, 5 years

Areas of coverage
  • Energy and Utilities Industry Technology Insights

Education

M.S., Petroleum Geology, Imperial College, London

B.S. (2:1), Geophysical Sciences, Lancaster University

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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Drivers and trends in oil and gas digitalization and AI; digitalization strategy

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Impact of digital and AI on oil and gas operations, remote operations and the digital oil field

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AI, analytics, data-driven decision making and autonomy

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Petro-techical IT, upstream modeling suites vision, strategy and roadmap

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Evovling role of IT in oil and gas