The power of data
Effective use of digital tools is vital for an affordable net zero future. In the energy transition conversation, discussions tend to center on where the energy of the future will…
Technology
Artificial Intelligence – Its Use in Exploration and Production – Part 1
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has at least one feature in common with hydrocarbon exploration: a history of boom and bust. Other industries might complain about the unpredictability of demand for their…
Artificial Intelligence – Its Use in Exploration and Production – Part 2
Machine Learning: magical or mathematical statistics? De-mystifying AI and setting it in a geo-exploration context. When film studios remake classic films, critics and audiences often ask why. GEO ExPro has…
Artificial Intelligence – Its Use in Exploration and Production – Part 3
Are we finally seeing AI fulfil its potential in oil and gas exploration? In this series of articles, we are attempting to establish the background to the current resurgence in…
Sustainable aviation fuels: carbon-free flying?
For the sake of the planet, I am happy to consider an electric car, to change my electricity supplier and to install solar panels or a heat pump – but…
A digital grain size card
“I was first introduced to the CoreDNA methodology a few years ago when the ‘Wombat’ machine was installed at Stratum’s facility in Sandnes,” says John Paul Cummings who joined recently…
Johan Sverdrup – a lot of oil and a lot of data
Johan Sverdrup is a big field that produces a lot of oil. Many people know that. But it is also a field that produces a lot of data, which is…
Teaching the machine to identify prospects – as easy as it sounds?
Let’s start this story with a philosophical question: “Isn’t there a contradiction in using human interpretation to ground-truth a model if the purpose of the exercise is to identify leads…
More efficient – and better quality
“Machine learning is particularly suitable for near-field exploration,” claims Eirik Larsen, founder and Chief Solutions Officer of the fast-growing company Earth Science Analytics, which has set itself the goal of…
Recent Advances in Climate Change Research: Part XVI – A Greenhouse Model for Stratospheric Cooling – 2
In this part, we introduce you to the 1D window-grey radiation model of the atmosphere, which illustrates the physical essence of the mechanism by which a CO2 increase cools the…
The Google maps of seismic analysis
In the same way as Google maps has radically changed the way how road navigation works, researchers in Equinor have developed a methodology to enable the analysis of seismic data…
Drawing grains from cutting samples to develop machine learning algorithms
Do you know what junior geologist Wouter Bell Gravendeel is doing in the image shown above? Together with his fellow colleagues Jostein Larsen Hesthammer and Jahn Brusdal Eriksen, he is…