How Cairn Oil & Gas taps its network of 2,000 startups to fuel innovation

Cairn Oil & Gas is on a mission to transform its value chain. Leading the charge is Sandeep Gupta, chief digital and information officer, who says the Indian oil and gas company is leveraging information technology and data as part of a massive transformation of its five core pillars: exploration for energy sources, surface, subsurface, asset optimization, and health, safety, and environment (HSE).

For HSE, for example, Cairn has rolled out a system for AI-based safety surveillance that ingests a feed from CCTV cameras.

“If somebody is not wearing a hard hat at our site, it will automatically detect that there is a violation and almost on a real-time basis send an SMS to the HSE manager for that area,” says Gupta by way of example.