Oil and gas professionals were asked to assess the industry’s state of readiness for advances in digital technology in a poll conducted on the first day of the SPE Intelligent Energy International exhibition and conference in Utrecht, Netherlands, a news release said.

The question posed by BP was: how many of the world’s plants, rigs and production platforms are ready to take advantage of the advances in digital technologies without the need for major upgrades? The majority of respondents, 53%, said less than 25% of assets were ready, according to the release.

IE2014 is expected to attract more than 2,000 business leaders and senior engineering professionals from across the world. At the event, under the theme “empowered by real time” integrated data, BP is drawing on experiences from its Field of the Future program to review the progress of oilfield digitalization to date and encourage debate on future aspirations and how the industry will develop going forward. The release said the program was established by BP to improve decision-making through real-time data-to-decision capabilities in production, operations and reservoir management.

BP is conducting three delegate polls this week, one for each full day of IE2014, the release said. Delegates are also being asked to vote on when the industry will see widespread closed-loop control in completions technology and when digital oilfield technologies will deliver optimized “flight path” type guidance.