Data & Analytics
The emerging vision is an industry where engineers focus on judgment, risk assessments, and accountability.
AI and machine learning are transforming drilling execution, detecting downhole problems earlier, automating reporting, and closing the loop between the wellbore and the well plan through real-time geosteering.
Robotic and autonomous systems are transforming energy operations, but their full value emerges only when paired with data science, engineering analytics, and AI/ML to turn data into decisions. The transition of the SPE Robotic & Autonomous Systems Technical Section into the SPE Data Science & Engineering Analytics Technical Section helps bridge this critical technolo…
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Well-interference issues can be hard to diagnose, but this startup may be figuring that out. The data-driven process it developed can also help operators come up with more effective ways to use diverters. -
Hundreds of rod-lift wells in North Dakota are about to get a big upgrade.
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A recent research effort has shown that the digital journey is full of stumbling blocks. Just like humans, advanced computing technology will get some things right and some things wrong.
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The company behind the world’s most popular search engine is trying to click with the upstream business at the most distinguished technical event of the year.
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Venture groups spend their time evaluating hundreds of companies each year to only make a handful of investments. These two cover interesting ends of the upstream spectrum: aerial drones and downhole artificial lift.
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Acquiring data from an abandoned subsea well has been done before, but never quite like this.
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Wearable computers are turning heads in the oil and gas industry and appear to be on a trajectory for widespread adoption.
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Data story consumers are focused on summarized results and highlights instead of details of the analysis. It’s a data scientist’s responsibility to identify the significance of the data and to present it in a simple but scientific manner.
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R&D may be the key to the survival of companies as the new economics of the industry take hold.
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Tiny soil samples may contain as many as 300,000 species of microbial life, but a Netherlands-based startup has figured out that between 50 and 200 of them can tell an operator if a drilling location will hold oil and gas reserves.
