DSDE: Features

This column is intended to provide a starting point and a roadmap for professionals who want to learn data science and are struggling with the question, “Where do I start?”

Murphy Oil has created a work flow to normalize the tags it uses when collecting data on its hydraulic fracturing stages. The work flow described here empowers decision makers, who no longer wait for hours to collect data or waste hours cleaning and preparing data for analysis.

Russia flares more associated gas from oil production than any other country on the planet. But Russian major Gazprom Neft may have found an ecofriendly alternative: turning flare gas in West Siberia into electricity to fuel the mining of cryptocurrency.

Over the years, I’ve noticed interesting cultural differences between industrial sectors in their approach to dealing with staff software training. Here, I’ll try to synthesize them into a major insight and expound on the implications.

Where there are data generated and collected, there is analysis of the data. The ongoing digital transformation in the industry has opened many opportunities for professionals skilled in data analytics.

The partnership between the software company and Texas A&M’s Department of Petroleum Engineering provides students with access to software that can enhance reservoir research with machine learning.

Geoscience data companies CGG, PGS, and TGS announced a strategic partnership to offer a shared ecosystem providing direct access to their subsurface multiclient data libraries.

Silviu Livescu, SPE’s technical director for data science and engineering analytics, and Birol Dindoruk, recent technical director for management and information, discuss the state of the oil and gas industry’s digital transformation, where the industry needs to go, and how it can get there.

Fugro has opened a new remote operations center in Abu Dhabi that is already handling remote and autonomous projects in the Middle East and India.

Digital transformation offers opportunities beyond the technical goal of increased production. It may also enhance sustainability, the work/life balance, and the public’s perception of the industry.