artificial intelligence

The acquisition establishes a unified North American upstream analytical data set with the goal of streamlining capital allocation decisions.

This paper presents the first global application of autonomous drilling in deepwater and the journey to reach optimal drilling parameters, integrating proprietary tools from the project’s business partners.

EQT is benchmarking its way to basin-leading productivity and relying on partnerships and new technology to turn KPIs into operational reality.

This month’s column highlights how artificial intelligence is influencing SPE programming, publications, and new tools, while also transforming day‑to‑day operations across our industry. The column explores energy supply implications and practical field applications, showing how SPE is helping members turn AI into a tool for progress.

The companies also agreed to collaborate on new AI models to unlock further insights from S&P Global Energy’s upstream data.

Artificial intelligence is prompting oil and gas companies to redefine roles, rethink trust, and rework operations, experts said during CERAWeek.

The gap between machine learning research and effective deployment in the oil and gas industry is an alignment challenge between research questions and real decisions, between model design and operational constraints, and between innovation and the people expected to use it.

Technology and partnerships remain important, while phased approaches may supplant lengthy appraisal programs, experts said during CERAWeek.

CERAWeek panelists see AI as a way to leverage data and people in interpreting data for exploration, but a cultural shift at companies may still be needed.

Data centers could add up to 6 Bcf/D of US gas demand by 2030, creating a new opportunity for producers and reshaping how oil companies think about electricity supply.