ABSTRACT
The wake of technological advancements along with the benefits that they provide has brought in a significant amount of research work pertaining to big data in every industry including oil and gas in the last few decades. Thus, this chapter focuses on apprehending the amount of research work undertaken in the last few decades in the industry as a whole along with each specific operation. In lieu of the industry’s transition into digitization alongside its widespread implementation, this will help understand where the future is headed as well as how new research is transforming big data’s role in the petroleum industry. The chapter will equip the reader with an apprehensive understanding of all spectrum of research work and its applications in terms of industry-wide and operation-specific big data implementation.
