An effective G&G exploration strategy inspired by a wolfpack

N.M. Hernandez, F.Baillard, I. Panganiban, K.G. Maver

20 September 2019, StavangerFORCE Machine Learning Conference

Outline

• ElasticDocs Technology Review

• Current Developments & Practical Applications

• Strategy for Breaking Cognitive Barriers in Exploration• Knowledge Network

• Native Language Understanding

• Conclusions

Four Pillars

• Optical Character Recognition• Natural Language Processing• Deep Neural Networks • Geolocation & ElasticSearch

for Processing Unstructured Geoscience Data

So, last year

40,000DOCUMENTS

500,000IMAGES EXTRACTED

100 yearsHISTORY

5

TeraBytes

100+

DOCUMENTS CATEGORIES

ELASTICDOCS IN NUMBERS

1M+ PAGES PROCESSED

1,000WELLS

7DISCIPLINES 20

BASINS

GeologyGeophysicsPetrophysicsGeomechanicsReservoir EngineerDrillingProduction

Addressing the 4Vs of Big Data

Basin

Field

ReservoirWell

Grain

Frame

• Volume • Veracity • Variety • Velocity

High Resolution Basin Insight

Data

Data

Data

Data

Knowledge Building in

New Ventures

Exploration

Transverse

Management of

Opportunities Secure Knowledge

Sharing

Discovery

P r i v a t e , S e c u r e E x p l o r a t i o n D a t a b a se

C o l l e c t i v e

A w a r e n e s s

Things we learned

o Technology evolution: Cyborg Data + Platform

o Exploration starts at your own (data) backyard

o New ventures can be data-driven, and need not be data-deprived

NEW EXPLORATION STORY

Allow for easy understanding on:

• Risks associated to seal and migration

• Quality of the reservoir

• Probability of success

• Basin parameters as input to petrophysics, geophysics etc

Clear applications we’ve seen

Access big data at our fingertips

Cognitive Challenge in Volume

Cognitive ability to digest

Native language

Information criticality

Alpha

Pack

Scouts

Sole spirits

Visualization of Knowledge Networks

Node = Well

Network Thickness = Strength of Relationship

Visualization of Knowledge Networks

What this image shows:

• 50 years of drilling history

Intra-relationship among wells

Inter-relationship between basins

Isolation of information – needs lookback?

Successful vs dry wells

Non-existing relationship

Step-out exploration

failures, vintage

Visualization of Knowledge Networks

Paucity of network

Richness of network

What we can do:

• Add more data

• Add more understanding in areas with network paucity

• Could be opportunities for low-hanging fruits

What are the wells “gossiping” about

SHARED LOGISTICS

SHARED NEIGHBORS

SHARED RESERVOIRS

SHARED GDE

…Top of the Latrobe level that is shared by the C21A well

…Begin tow from Bellatrix-1 to Calliance-3..

…A comprehensive set of offset wells for Dufresne-1B (includes) Abalone-1

…These wells (250 km & basins apart)… are of paramount importance for the extension of the producing plays discovered in the Paleogene…

Cognitive Challenge: Language

Auto-machine translate

breaks down language barrier in exploration

Cognitive Challenge: Language

New feature allows:

❑ Batch translate content in any language

❑ Simultaneous Query & Translate feature allows document to be searched in English, dives thru content in (any) language, and returns answer back in English

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Las buenas porosidades y las areniscas limpias

en bloques caracterizan la Formación Plover en

Bodacious-1A. Estas arenas de buena calidad

están entrelazadas con arcilla. No se registraron

muestras significativas de hidrocarburos durante

la perforación de este pozo.

Cognitive Challenge: Variety• Data Sources

private, internal corporate database

• Formatpdf, excel, word, powerpoint, gis, las, segy

• Disciplinesgeology, geophysics, petrophysics, reservoir engineering, drilling,

production

anydata

databaseML powered

data ingestion Cognitive

Conclusion

• We started to move from solving analytical (technical) problems to improving (human) cognitive capabilities

• We are moving from machine learning experimentation to focused exploration problem-solving

• Evolving approach to data relationships to software platforms

Thank you