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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The event aims to educate energy professionals on data science and have them use those skills on the challenges of geothermal energy. -
In an increasingly data-dependent sector, oil and gas companies need to scale up their use of technology across the enterprise rapidly. Success will involve reframing the CIO’s role in driving not only digital transformation but also business outcomes.
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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.
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Blockchain has moved past its status as a niche technology and now is being looked at as one that can transform many traditional industries by bringing digital automation, security, and potentially large cost savings. Shareholders have been pushing oil and gas businesses to cut expenses while increasing earnings, putting them under pressure. Blockchain can help the oi…
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SponsoredUnconventional wells produce massive amounts of data across a multitude of systems. Bringing all this data together increases efficiency, speeds screening, enhances smart decision-making, and ultimately returns greater production. Learn how PetroVisor can help.
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The authors develop a data-driven approach, enabled by machine learning, to find an optimal operating envelope for gas-lift wells.
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The authors describe an integrated geological-engineering data-management project covering all aspects of well-engineering work flows.
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The paper demonstrates the application of an interpretable machine-learning work flow using surface drilling data to identify fracable, brittle, and productive rock intervals along horizontal laterals in the Marcellus shale.
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SponsoredAre you ready? Data is an enterprise asset, underlying your ability to deliver on your commitments. But are you deploying it in ways that serve your strategic goals? Datagration makes the case for changing how you think about data management.
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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.
