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Advances in Subsurface Data Analytics

  • 1st Edition - May 18, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Shuvajit Bhattacharya, Haibin Di
  • Language: English

Advances in Subsurface Data Analytics: Traditional and Physics-Based Approaches brings together the fundamentals of popular and emerging machine learning (ML) algorithms with thei… Read more

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Description

Advances in Subsurface Data Analytics: Traditional and Physics-Based Approaches brings together the fundamentals of popular and emerging machine learning (ML) algorithms with their applications in subsurface analysis, including geology, geophysics, petrophysics, and reservoir engineering. The book is divided into four parts: traditional ML, deep learning, physics-based ML, and new directions, with an increasing level of diversity and complexity of topics. Each chapter focuses on one ML algorithm with a detailed workflow for a specific application in geosciences. Some chapters also compare the results from an algorithm with others to better equip the readers with different strategies to implement automated workflows for subsurface analysis.
Advances in Subsurface Data Analytics: Traditional and Physics-Based Approaches will help researchers in academia and professional geoscientists working on the subsurface-related problems (oil and gas, geothermal, carbon sequestration, and seismology) at different scales to understand and appreciate current trends in ML approaches, their applications, advances and limitations, and future potential in geosciences by bringing together several contributions in a single volume.

Key features

  • Covers fundamentals of simple machine learning and deep learning algorithms, and physics-based approaches written by practitioners in academia and industry
  • Presents detailed case studies of individual machine learning algorithms and optimal strategies in subsurface characterization around the world
  • Offers an analysis of future trends in machine learning in geosciences

Readership

Faculty, researchers, and graduate students in the geosciences/petroleum engineering departments at universities; professional geoscientists and reservoir engineers working in the oil and gas industry and federal government

Table of contents

Part 1: Traditional Machine Learning Approaches

1. User Vs. Machine Seismic Attribute Selection for Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques: Does Human Insight Provide Better Results Than Statistically Chosen Attributes?
Karelia La Marca and Heather Bedle

2. Relative Performance of Support Vector Machine, Decision Trees, and Random Forest Classifiers for Predicting Production Success in US unconventional Shale Plays
Cedric Michael John, Jessica Wevill, Alex Bromhead, Kate Evans and Jeffrey Yarus

Part 2: Deep Learning Approaches

3. Recurrent Neural Network: application in facies classification
Sumit Verma and Miao Tian

4. Recurrent Neural Network for Seismic Reservoir Characterization
Mingliang N. Liu Sr., Dario Grana, Philippe Nivlet and Robert Smith

5. Application of Convolutional Neural Networks for the Classification of Siliciclastic Core Photographs
Rafael Augusto Pires de Lima and FNU Suriamin

6. Convolutional Neural Networks for Fault Interpretation – Case Study Examples around the World
Hugo Garcia

Part 3: Physics-based Machine Learning Approaches

7. Scientific Machine Learning for Improved Seismic Simulation and Inversion
Lei Huang

8. Prediction of Acoustic Velocities using Machine Learning
Lian Jiang, John Castagna and Pablo Guillen

9. Regularized Elastic Full Waveform Inversion using Deep Learning
Zhendong Zhang and Tariq Alkhalifah

10. A Holistic Approach to Computing First-arrival Traveltimes using Neural Networks
Umair Bin Waheed

Part 4: New Directions

11. Application of Artificial Intelligence to Computational Fluid Dynamics
Shahab D. Mohaghegh, Ayodeji Aboaba, Yvon Martinez, Mehrdad Shahnam, Chris Guenther, Yong Liu

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 18, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Shuvajit Bhattacharya

Dr. Shuvajit Bhattacharya is a research associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology, the University of Texas at Austin. He is an applied geophysicist/petrophysicist specializing in seismic interpretation, petrophysical modeling, machine learning, and integrated subsurface characterization. Prior to joining the Bureau of Economic Geology, Dr. Bhattacharya worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He has completed several projects in the USA, Netherlands, Australia, South Africa, and India. He has published and presented more than 70 technical articles in journals, books, and conferences. His current research focuses on energy resources exploration, development, and subsurface storage of carbon and hydrogen. He completed his Ph.D. at West Virginia University in 2016.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

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Haibin Di

Dr. Haibin Di is a Senior Data Scientist in the Digital Subsurface Intelligence team at Schlumberger. His research interest is in implementing machine learning algorithms, particularly deep neural networks, into multiple seismic applications, including stratigraphy interpretation, property estimation, denoising, and seismic-well tie. He has published more than 70 papers in seismic interpretation and holds seven patents on machine learning-assisted subsurface data analysis. Dr. Di received his Ph.D. in Geology from West Virginia University in 2016, worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016-2018, and joined Schlumberger in 2018.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Data Scientist and Geophysicist, Schlumberger, USA

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