Data & Analytics
Shell has demonstrated drone-in-a-box operations from its Mars floating production unit, becoming the first operator in the region to secure FAA approval for self-approved offshore beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights. JPT Senior Technology Editor Jennifer Pallanich visited Shell Technology Center Houston to see the system in action.
Panelists at the SPE Subsea Well Intervention Symposium discussed where AI is delivering value today, where risks remain, and how engineers can best determine its usefulness.
As digital technologies become commonplace, industry leaders say core engineering knowledge remains essential for making informed decisions and avoiding costly mistakes.
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Despite getting less attention, the systems-level design and engineering challenges in machine learning are still very important. Creating something useful requires more than building good models; it requires building good systems. -
A recent ransomware attack caused a US natural gas compressor facility to shut for 2 days, the latest in a string of attacks targeting the country’s energy infrastructure over the past few years.
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The provider of subscription-based analytics services for the North American oil and gas sector continues its streak of purchasing data-focused firms.
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Aker BP showcased the Spot robot recently. Spot will be part of the company's initiative that will explore how robotics systems can be used to make offshore operations safer.
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The seismic-data company has announced the completion of its offshore Peru 2D and 3D seismic data set, consisting of 19 rectified and merged 2D seismic surveys and 21 rectified and merged 3D seismic surveys.
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Petroweb, a provider of global E&P data cataloging to the energy industry, announced the launch of its Data Curating platform, which provides a continuously up-to-date catalog of available third-party E&P data sets worldwide.
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Many predictions have been made about what advances are expected in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. This column reviews a “data set” based on what researchers were apparently studying at the turn of the decade to take a fresh glimpse into what might come to pass in 2020.
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Artificial intelligence may never match the human brain.
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Using the supplied data set of cone penetration test results, competing teams had to predict the number of hammer blows required to drive the pile a given unit of depth in the North Sea.
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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.
