The Intelligent Barrel, Part 1: From Data to Barrels

Why do AI programmes in Nigerian oil and gas so often stall between the demo and the barrel? In Part 1 of our deep dive into Ritchie Wingo's The Intelligent Barrel, we unpack the Introduction and Chapters 0 to 2: the operating-intelligence loop, why insight without an owner changes nothing, and what it takes to become an intelligent energy company. Next: Part 2, The AI-Ready Oilfield and Building the Engine. The book and its free companion leadership programme: https://intelligent-ai-leadership.com This episode is an AI-voiced discussion of the book, created with Google's Gemini Notebook from Ritchie Wingo's text. Worked examples in the book are illustrations, not reported company results.