Blockchain Technology and Supply Chain: An Application Review.

The market of oil and gas encompasses long-term, high-risk projects, which leads companies to search for solutions that can bring more reliability and efficiency to their processes. Blockchain technology has emerged in the financial market but has expanded to other fields where one of the most promising markets for its use is in the supply chains of materials and services. By means of bibliographical research, it has been possible to identify the main applications of this technology, as well as to evaluate its current stage of deployment and its main aspects. It was possible to investigate replacement automation, modelling of logistics and supply operations, digitalization, costing, payment systems and smart contracts, which from a pool of several hundred publications, demonstrated to be the most important ones about the usage of blockchain in the supply chain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]