“I’m exceptionally bullish about the future”
“As an industry, we have come a long way. From drilling vertical wells to slanted wells, then using slotted liners in horizontal wells, via passive inflow strategies to now active…
Technology
Finding the right needle in the haystack
The ultimate question every operator faces is whether there is room to arrest the decline of their producing field by investing to increase the recovery factor. One of the most…
Shale 3.0
With reports that output from the US shale basins is creaming, combined with price pressure on production and environmental concerns, there has never been a better time to invest in…
AI and the future of subsurface discovery: Are we asking the right questions?
The question at the heart of geoethics today isn’t just whether we should use artificial intelligence (AI) in geoscience, it’s how we use it, to what end, and what that…
How advanced seismic inversion and a sound depositional model led to the successful appraisal of an initially uneconomic discovery
Let’s take a step back and look at the structures targeted in the early days of North Sea exploration. It is no surprise that back then, the big fields were…
Basin modelling in the age of AI: A partnership, not a replacement
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) are now part of many professional domains – from healthcare to engineering – and the subsurface is no exception. In basin and…
Some snakes don’t bite
Everybody is talking about machine learning and big data these days, but what does it mean in reality, and how do geoscientists embrace it in their daily lives? To learn…
Thinking like a geologist in the age of AI
We’re all feeling a tension as geoscientists: Caught between an old way of working and a rapidly changing future dominated by Artificial Intelligence. As the dust starts to settle, another…
Crafting a software that is ready for the future
As much as there is a consolidation happening in the large operator landscape and the seismic acquisition space, the same applies to the subsurface software business. “Let’s face it,” says…
Seismic data on the workbench
“My goal is to equip explorationists with a toolbox containing all relevant algorithms to efficiently create optimal seismic volumes for interpretation and stratigraphical analysis,” says Anders, who hails from Sweden…
Why preserving a detailed facies reservoir model has everything to do with your graphics card
“Imagine a bulldozer,” says Vasilii Shelkov, CEO of Rock Flow Dynamics, from his office in Houston. “That is how you need to envisage the power delivery of the Central Processing…
The bit boy has gone
The Canadian oil sector has changed dramatically in a matter of 20 years. Back in the early 2000’s, vertical drilling was very much common good, but these days, you would…