Ted CrossIn case you haven’t noticed, chess has been seeing unprecedented growth around the world. A boom that started with bored lockdowners looking ...
Machine Learning Regional Profiles for Geologic Insights: Mapping Unconventional Production Drivers in the Williston Basin
What drives unconventional oil production? Of course completions, parent-child, and well spacing all play a huge role -- but it all starts ...
Garth StottsInvesting in Shale Oil and Gas Wells: Are you the House or the Player?
We want to invest in shale oil and gas wells that operate like a casino. Why? Casinos make lots of money based ...
Analyzing Vista’s Record-Setting Vaca Muerta Wells with Oil and Gas Machine Learning Models
After the Great Coronavirus Shut-In, Vista Oil & Gas turned back on their new Vaca Muerta pad. A pleasant surprise greeted them. ...
Esben PedersenMaking sense of it all: extracting actionable core-data from pXRF using PCA and K-means cluster analysis
Editor's note: we are excited to present this work, the winner of Novi's inaugural Student Blog Contest. Many thanks to Esben and ...
Novi geoSHAP – estimating rock quality using SHAP values in machine learning models: URTeC 2020 Novi Paper Summary
"What do you mean the model doesn't use **INSERT PET GEOLOGIC VARIABLE HERE**?!" Anyone who's built and reviewed enough machine learning models ...
Water, water everywhere: oil well water analysis with machine learning models to improve produced water forecasts in the Williston Basin: URTeC 2020 Novi Paper Summary
How often does an engineer dash off a simple oil well water analysis, doing something like applying a flat WOR to their ...
The Changing Impact of Oil Well Design Completions Through Time: URTeC 2020 Novi Paper Summary
"Upsizing well completions increase production 37.5%*!!!" Sure, but when? Where that asterisk lands will have a huge impact on the returns of ...
Building Unbiased Benchmarks with Machine Learning Oil and Gas Modeling: URTeC 2020 Novi Paper Summary
90% of American drivers say they're better than average, and 90% of Shale focused Operators have "peer-leading" breakevens, returns and well production ...
how does a 3 billion barrel discovery turn into a $3 billion impairment in oil and gas plays?
Involvement in exploring a substantial discovery and bringing it to development is an exciting opportunity. There is nothing more valuable to a ...