DSDE: Features

Engineering career tip of the day: If you are using Microsoft Excel at work, don’t leave it open on your computer when your boss is nearby.

Digital advances allow computers to do many of the tedious tasks once done by engineers, which frees them to focus on more interesting tasks.

The term “edge computing” may be relatively new, but the concept is not.

A new study will identify the UK’s best sites and produce a roadmap for carbon storage to help the country reach its net zero targets, geologists say.

HML methods have become common in recent applications. We have probably been using some of them without realizing it. It is, however, necessary to know about them in the context of understanding the underlying concepts of their methods and how they work.

Will digital transformation continue to drive business impact beyond the hype? This interview with Ken Medlock, senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University, offers a perspective focused on the greater forces shaping the digital transformation trend.

Recently, the hype around artificial intelligence and machine learning caused several people to ask me how much of a project is actual machine learning. Based on man-hours spent on the project, I estimate that only about 5% of the effort is spent directly on data-science-related activities.

Hess is testing whether it can drive drilling improvement by combining drilling rigs equipped with automated functions and humans determined to find a way to beat the programmed drilling.

Producers and investors continue to reward small companies with big solutions that lean on new software and hardware to lift the bottom line of one the world’s few trillion-dollar industries.

SPE is planning a series on petroleum data analytics at its Houston Training Center. The series will kick off with Week One: Subsurface Analytics on 24–28 February and will be led by University of West Virginia Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Shahab Mohaghegh.