TGS has announced a collaboration agreement with analysis and machine learning company Earth Science Analytics to promote innovation in data-driven geoscience.
TGS has announced a collaboration agreement with analysis and machine learning company Earth Science Analytics to promote innovation in data-driven geoscience. The partnership has already delivered insight through a range of derivative datasets for the TGS Utsira Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) survey, created through artificial intelligence (AI) analysis.
The project is the first example of AI geological interpretation on a large-scale, densely sampled OBN exploration dataset covering more than 1500 km2. The objective was to deliver a new suite of derivative seismic products to provide enhanced exploration insights through AI, especially in areas where infrastructure-led exploration (ILX) is drawing increased focus from the E&P industry. With human training, ground truth well data anchoring, and blind testing, the combination of high fidelity seismic with AI technology provides accurate predictions, said TGS.
As a cloud-native application, Earth Science Analytics’ EarthNet software is installed into TGS’ cloud environment to create high-value derivates from the world’s largest library of subsurface data. The properties produced from seismic and well data analysis include porosity, lithology and water saturation, in addition to seismic interpretations of faults and geobodies, such as injectites.
Will Ashby, EVP of Eastern Hemisphere at TGS, said, ‘The collaboration with Earth Science Analytics is an opportunity for TGS to maximize extraction of the subsurface data insights within our energy data library with integrated, AI-powered workflows. Application of these workflows on our Utsira OBN dataset has already produced startling results.’
