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Exploration efficiency

Exploration efficiency

Prototyping future geoscience data organization and analytics tools for improved exploration workflows

Interpreters in exploration assets need a productivity increase in their handling and integrating steadily increasing amounts of data. These terabytes of heterogeneous Big data, including various geophysical data ranging from 2D and 3D surveys with numerous processing versions and large populations of wells, need to be analyzed faster, yet reliably, to provide valuable inputs to decision makers. BRU21 aims at developing novel automated tools to increase data analysis efficiency in the exploration workflows through modern computational methods, e.g. machine learning and artificial intelligence, combined with cross-disciplinary subsurface expertise...read more

Program area team 

  • Carl Fredrik Berg, Assoc. Prof. Reservoir Engineering
  • Karl Wilhelm Johannes Fabian, Professor
  • Frank Ove Westad, Adj. Prof. Big Data Cybernetics
  • Veronica A.T. Caceres, PhD candidate
  • Luc Alberts, PostDoc
  • Kurdistan Chawshin, PhD candidate
  • Pranav Audhkhasi, PostDoc
  • Sushil Acharya, PhD candidate

Projects

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Projects

Automated lithofacies classification of pre-stack seismic data

PhD Candidate Pranav Audhkhasi, Sponsor: Wintershall DEA

Automated lithology classification employing whole core CT scans

PhD candidate Kurdistan Chawshin, Main Supervisor Kenneth Duffaut, Sponsor: Equinor

The impact of well data quality on machine learning performance

PhD Candidate Veronica Torres Caceres, Main Supervisor Kenneth Duffaut, Sponsor: Aker BP

Automated seismic reconstruction of missing sections

Post Doctoral fellow Luc Alberts, Main Supervisor Kenneth Duffaut, Sponsor: Neptune Energy Norge AS

Fast downhole testing of permeability anisotropy

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Program area assistant manager:

  • Carl Fredrik Berg

    Carl Fredrik Berg Professor

    +4790708869 carl.f.berg@ntnu.no Department of Geoscience

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