Finding scribbles on the sides of composite well logs
It must have been in November 2018, as I chaired a session at the PETEX Conference in London, when Ronny Parr from bp gave a talk entitled “From Trash to…
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Less oil, more water
It is something that I am not often exposed to, but that does not mean it is unimportant – produced water. The SPE Aberdeen section organized a panel discussion around…
How AI-based image analysis of cuttings enables better reservoir definition
With the advance of new AI-based technologies, drill cutting data can now be quickly and consistently analyzed and interpreted to better characterize the subsurface. Working together with Bapco Upstream, we…
Getting drill-ready for the energy transition
Frank van Bergen “If you don’t include the subsurface in the journey towards reducing CO2 emissions, it will be impossible to reach net zero”, says Frank van Bergen. Frank heads…
The evolution of managed pressure drilling
Nick Ward “Managed pressure drilling (MPD) has been around for a long time”, says Nick Ward when we meet in his office in Tullos, Aberdeen. Nick oversees the MPD business…
Data fabric architecture – the solution to explore better?
Geologists like visuals. That is why Puneet Saraswat and his colleagues from Querent AI are a step ahead already, because they create visuals, out of large collections of reports. They…
A seismic facies library
Seismic facies classification can be a tedious process, especially in an exploration context where large areas need to be assessed. In order to speed up that process, using a library…
Why is so much subsurface technology coming from Norway?
First of all, a warning. I am not going to provide a well-researched answer to the question posed in the title. Instead, I intend to put forward a few recent…
The gamification of the oil and gas industry
“Imagine a world where labour is obsolete”, says Yu-kai Chou at the start of a TEDx Talk delivered for the University of Lausanne in Switzerland in 2014. “And I’m not…
A 1 % error margin is not acceptable anymore
It is something that many geoscientists may not think about daily, but there is a whole community in the upstream oil and gas sector that is working to make sure…
The time of deep resistivity
Times are gone that deep resistivity tools are only being used for geo-steering. The inverted data help build geomodels, help estimate net pay thickness away from well data and see…
Integration of structural and stratigraphic data using automated workflows
Geoscientists rely on their pattern recognition ability every day, comparing already known sedimentary and structural fabrics with new ones when diving into new datasets. However, with the increase in size…