Digital Transformation
In this interview, Sushma Bhan, energy data, AI leader, and technical director of the SPE Data Science and Engineering Analytics Technical Section, shares lessons from 3 decades at Shell, discussing digital transformation, the future of AI in upstream operations, leadership development, and career advice for the next generation of energy professionals.
Discover how AI and machine learning are transforming oil and gas field development by reducing subsurface uncertainty, optimizing development decisions, and maximizing long-term reservoir value from concept selection through production.
As upstream operators move beyond isolated experiments, the hardest part of the AI journey is not building a model, it is making it stick.
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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. -
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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This interview explores the opportunities, challenges, and what young professionals need to know to have a rewarding career in drilling data analytics.
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Acquiring data from an abandoned subsea well has been done before, but never quite like this.
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Microsoft deployed a datacenter underwater near Scotland’s Orkney Islands, as part of a project to assess bringing datacenters closer to population centers.
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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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More than 400 students from 20 SPE student chapters across the US, Mexico, and Canada gathered at the annual SPE North America Student Symposium (NASS) held at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge during 21–24 February.
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The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, has the potential to disrupt every industry, including the oil and gas industry through large-scale automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, and big data analytics. Young professionals (YPs) will be the main engine responsible for the development of many Industry 4.0 technologies in the oil and gas industry. Thi…
