Deciphering the wealth of data that come from fibre optic sensing
It is corrosion resistant, has a long lifetime, no electronics are required downhole, and the “cable” is only a quarter of a millimeter thick. Fibre optic sensing technology has a…
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A dissolvable tool
Andrew Garioch from Well-SENSE talks us through the use of fibre-optic technology for well intervention work
When will the first prospect be drilled that was identified and de-risked through the use of AI?
There is a buzz around artificial intelligence (AI). With routine tasks being increasingly taken over by machines, to the point that they are better trained than the human eye, when…
Shaking up the Earth: The AI revolution in seismic interpretation
AI’s transformative role in seismic interpretation is not merely illuminating the subsurface; it’s fast-tracking one of the energy industry’s most business-critical phases. The interpretation of seismic data requires a comprehensive…
Why do cables get stuck during open-hole wireline logging operations?
In his book “Oil Notes”, geologist Rick Bass describes the importance of logging operations. Only after completing a log run, the well can be properly classed as a success or…
Your digital search assistant
The tool allows you to talk to a digital assistant about a selection of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s publicly available status reports, well histories and news articles. You can ask…
Progress on the UKCS online National Data Repository
The need for good quality data is self-evident – oil and gas exploration continue, at least for the moment, wind farms must be securely, and economically sited, potential carbon and…
The Netflix of geoscience
“When I left BP in 2016, I didn’t know anything about virtual reality, but what I did know is that I wanted to do something with it”, says Claudia Ruiz-Graham…
A leap into energy
The application of geoscience and digital techniques to meet challenging carbon reduction goals in pursuit of cleaner energy forms has never been more critical in enabling growth and delivering energy…
Half full or half empty
“Oil major ExxonMobil bets that through technological advances, shale producers can manage to double crude output from their existing wells.” That was one of the headlines from an article published…
Rapid and long-lasting sealing of bedrock using concretion-forming resin
Wells and underground excavations typically require effective permanent sealing when they have fulfilled their intended functions. Abandonment of hydrocarbon production or CO₂ injection wells or sealing of underground waste repositories are…
If you are not using ensemble modeling, you are most likely leaving money on the table
Most reservoir development or management decisions require a three-dimensional numerical representation of the reservoir. Intuitively, that digital representation consists of a single model to which all subsurface disciplines contribute to…