Application and development trend of artificial intelligence in petroleum exploration and development

KUANG Lichun,LIU He,REN Yili,LUO Kai,SHI Mingyu,SU Jian,LI Xin

Table 1 Comparison of AI strategies among global key oil and gas companies and service companies.

No. Companies Orientation AI Platform Partners 1 BP Upstream and downstream business to realize decision automation Sandy Beyond Limits, Belmont Technology 2 Shell Horizontal well trajectory control, drilling data processing algorithm Geodesic Microsoft 3 Exxon Mobil Data collection and integrated solutions XTO Microsoft 4 Total Intelligent solution for E&P, intelligent seismic imaging processing Cloud Platform Google 5 Chevron E&P, storage & transportation projects DELFI Microsoft, Schlumberger 6 Schlumberger E&P, storage & transportation projects DELFI Microsoft, Chevron 7 Baker Hughes Seismic modeling, malfunction prediction and supply chain optimization Desktop Platform, Azure NVIDIA, Microsoft 8 Halliburton Reservoir characterization and simulation Azure Microsoft 9 PetroChina Intelligent basins, intelligent logging, intelligent geophysical exploration, intelligent drilling & completion, intelligent oil production, intelligent fracturing and intelligent equipment Dream Cloud Platform, Cognitive Computing Platform Huawei 10 Sinopec Intelligent factories, intelligent oilfields and intelligent institutes Oilfield Smart Cloud Industrial Internet Platform Ali 11 CNOOC Intelligent oilfields, E&D data management Intelligent Oilfield Technology Platform Ali