Why shouldn’t all nodes be the same?
“The nodes we produced until this point were tailored to fully autonomous recording,” says Tom O’Toole from STRYDE when we met up for a conversation. “You put them in the…
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Turning the tide
There is a big difference between conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon production when it comes to water production. When drilling a well in a new conventional oil or gas field, the…
Drilling problems? Ask your CEO
Henrik Tingström didn’t need much time in the industry to see how much unstructured data was being left on the table. It was during internships at oil majors that he…
Mistaking speed for progress
Much of the AI we see today is very domain-specific and, in my mind, one-dimensional. People continue to operate in their own realms, developing algorithms that produce results at great…
When the reliability of your project depends on a single tool at hundreds of meters depth
An ESP can fail at any time, even before geothermal projects officially start. We recently reported on such a special case of ESP failure in the southwest of England, at…
Norway’s AlphaGo moment: Why 2025 changed the game
In 2016, Google’s AlphaGo played “Move 37” against Lee Sedol – a move that looked bafflingly wrong to human experts but ultimately secured the win. In 2025, the Norwegian Continental…
“It will make you look like a hero”
“When we start shaving off millions of each well, then we are talking business,” says Iain Whyte from Islay Subsurface. “That’s the prize we’re all after.” But how to win…
Hunting for sands
If a school bus driver is instructed to stop the vehicle within a fraction of a meter, there needs to be systematic speed and brake control in place. Otherwise, the…
Producing more by producing less
“The pressure in the separation unit, where the produced oil is separated from gas, is the ultimate driver for your entire field development approach,” says Alexey Danilko, production engineer at…
Quantifying the hydrogen-generation potential of iron-bearing rocks
Everyone working in basin modelling and geochemistry knows what Rock Eval machines do; they provide data on how much organic carbon is in a source rock sample, how much has…
It’s time to introduce chromostratigraphy
“Off-white, grey, quartz-rich, some occluded quartz and kaolinite.” Simon Molyneux cites the description of a cutting sample from a composite well log, which is thought to represent an interval of…
“FWI has changed the game”
“I’m a petroleum engineer, but I’ve been in the exploration and seismic business since the 1970s,” says Rafael when we meet on Teams a week before the IMAGE Conference in…