Explorer Director’s Corner

The application of technology and analytical techniques has always been a hallmark of our profession, but this year ACE had special sessions dedicated to machine learning and AI in petroleum geoscience. The trend toward increased automation and greater efficiency in our workflows will affect how the petroleum explorationist works in the decades to come. Helping our members prepare for this future is something to which AAPG is committed.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

The concept of digital transformation in the oil and gas industry gets talked about a lot these days, even though the phrase seems to have little specific meaning. So, will there really be some kind of extensive cyber-transformation of the industry over the next decade? “No,” said Tom Smith, president and CEO of Geophysical Insights in Houston. Instead, it will happen “over the next three years,” he predicted.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Oil and gas companies have spent years cleaning up and formatting their huge datasets for processing. When that cleanup work is done, the industry will be able to apply machine learning, artificial intelligence and Big Data techniques to extract information and improve operations. And maybe even make exploration discoveries.

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Learn! Blog

There is valuable information locked up in seemingly inaccessible places, and not of the data is compatible or even organized consistently. How can one use the valuable information for good decision-making for oil and gas operations?

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Learn! Blog

We are excited to announce our support for the 4th Annual Machine Learning in Oil & Gas Conference (www.machinelearning-oilandgas.com) which will take place in Houston on April 17th & 18th.

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Explorer Director’s Corner

While shale oil and shale gas deliver quick returns and product to markets, it’s the deepwater and other offshore discoveries that yield significant reserve additions and long-lasting production.

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Learn! Blog

One of the most challenging areas of research involves combing through articles to develop new insights and ideas. Welcome to an interview with Paul Cleverley, geologist and data scientist, who has developed a machine learning algorithm designed to comb through unstructured geological texts and pull together new intellectual property.

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Events Blog

Learn how machine learning and analytics are transforming the way that the industry explores for and produces oil and gas with these two training events.  

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Correlator Article

As robotics and artificial intelligence technology advances, does it necessarily mean eliminating jobs? Terrance Harris finds that restructuring of the types of work humans perform in the future will improve productivity and stabilize employment rates.

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Explorer Geophysical Corner

Geoscientists with “too much” data can either choose which data attributes are best, based on some tabulation or crossplot, or attempt to combine different data sets in a linear-based process such as cross-plotting. We review two progressive approaches to systematically reduce data dimensions while synthesizing a best attribute from an ensemble of seismic input attributes.

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DL Abstract

This presentation is a survey of subsurface machine learning concepts that have been formulated for unconventional asset development, described in the literature, and subsequently patented. Operators that utilize similar subsurface machine learning workflows and other data modelling techniques enjoy a competitive advantage at optimizing the development of unconventional plays.

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