“…Historically, within the P&P industry, Big Data was most commonly exploited for seismic interpretation software, to discover O&G reserves which would otherwise have been difficult to locate (Dyson, ). However, with the ever‐increasing volume of data, traditional analysis tools and storage technologies would now fail in capturing, managing and uncovering hidden information (Baaziz and Quoniam, ; Soo and Perez, ), and therefore P&P companies should give more attention and focus to Big Data and related technologies. Currently, most P&P companies fail to exploit the true potential of Big Data owing to a lack of collaboration, limited access to industry leading Big Data‐related computer programs and software processing tools, lack of data integration and lack of human capital (Lloyd's Register, ) with the knowledge and skills to apply Big Data techniques (Dyson, ).…”