Machine Learning on Permian Seismic?
Pioneer Natural Resources is improving the accuracy of its Midland basin depth-models by up to 40%, using a machine-learning algorithm to re-calibrate its seismic from well logs. Faster drilling…
Machine Learning to Optimise Rod Pumps
This data-file summarises progress using machine learning to maximise production from mature wells by detecting errors and optimising production. The algorithms are getting more accurate. Methodology. First, we tabulate the…
Explaining Shale: Can Machine Learning Capture Complexity?
This data-file decomposes the drivers of shale productivity in Alberta’s Duvernay play, across a correlation-matrix of 23 different variables. Machine learning can be used to predict 78% of the variance…
Offshore Wind: Tracking Turbines with Satellites and Machine Learning?
Followers not leaders? In a commodity industry, it is important to invest with superior technologies, if you want to generate superior returns. Hence we have been relatively cautious on…
US Shale: No Country for Old Completion Designs
…reviewing 350 technical papers, published by the shale industry in summer-2019. Major improvements are gathering momentum, in shale-EOR, machine learning techniques, digitalization and frac fluid chemistry. $499.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to…
The cutting edge of shale technology?
…topic, by country, by basin, by company and by ‘impact’. The YoY trends in 2019 show an incredible uptick in EOR, machine learning and well spacing studies, which are fully…
Satellites: the spy who loved methane?
…more extensive than expected. For example, Stanford’s “Deep Solar” project, has used machine learning to identify over 1.5M solar installations from 1bn satellite images. 5% of houses in California are…
Decarbonise Downstream?
…can reduce refinery CO2 intensities by 5kg/bbl. Pages 18-21 highlight breakthrough, digital technologies to improve the development of new catalysts, including super-computing and machine learning techniques. Pages 23-24 screen 35…
U.S. Shale: Winner Takes All?
Shale is a ‘tech’ industry. The technology keeps improving at an incredible pace. But Permian technology is improving fastest, extending its lead over other basins. These are our conclusions from…