DSDE: Features

Kongsberg Digital, the digital branch of global technology company Kongsberg, recently joined in a strategic partnership with FutureOn, a global energy software company, to bring together their digital twin platforms for energy projects. Here, Kongsberg Digital’s sustainability lead, Brian Carey, explains how important digital twins are to sustainability in the oil an…

The utility of mud gas data so far has been limited to fluid typing, formation evaluation, and interwell geological and petrophysical correlation. The ongoing digital transformation has presented the opportunity to increase the utility of, and get more value from, the abundant and rich mud gas data. This article raises the question of whether getting more from mud gas…

The buzz about the future of automated drilling and it becoming reality depends on improvements in downhole data gathering now. Halliburton is working on it.

ExxonMobil has drilled a horizontal well with a rig billed by Nabors as the first fully automated land rig. The big question now is whether ExxonMobil will come back for more after this three-well test.

The event aims to educate energy professionals on data science and have them use those skills on the challenges of geothermal energy.

Every year, SPE recognizes members who have made an exceptional effort to ensure the technical excellence of the Society’s peer-reviewed journals. For their contributions, the following individuals are recipients of the 2021 Outstanding Technical Reviewer Award.

The ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) has become an important topic in the application of AI and machine learning in the past several years. This second part of a two-part series presents the relevance and use of the ethics of AI in engineering applications. Part 1 explains the evolution and importance of AI ethics.

Two Houston-based blockchain technology companies—Data Gumbo and Topl—are collaborating to help corporations report timely and accurate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data, including performance and proof of progress on metrics, while protecting sensitive data.

Kamel Ben-Naceur sees petroleum engineering as essential to the energy transition not only because of the continued role that oil and gas will play in the energy mix moving forward but also because the skills of the profession are foundational and transferable.

The ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) has become an important topic in the application of AI and machine learning in the past several years. This first part of a two-part series explains the evolution and importance of the ethics of AI. The second part will present its relevance and use in engineering applications.