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LEADING OFF Arti? cial Intelligence doing it.” While there are companies offering the ? ber optic powered computers, but, he says the technology is coming. acquisition equipment – cables and interrogators – they were Computer processing units and graphics processing units are not offering interpretation software. coming that could enable this analysis to be done on the equiv-

It’s a challenge Sensalytx is looking to solve – taking the alent to a laptop. “These are step changes that will enable the interpretation time down from six weeks to six minutes. The analysis to be done quickly on the desk, rather than by a mas- company, which formed in July 2017, is working with devel- sive computer,” he says. “It’s going to be simpler, cheaper and opers and data scientists at Robert Gordon University in Aber- easier to deal with the volumes of data and visualize it. deen to develop advanced algorithms. “Ultimately, what we want to do is offer on-demand pro-

It’s also bringing in techniques from other industries, for duction optimization. We call it the equivalent of Google example gaming, which will help to visualize the data 4D and Translate for wells. If there is ? ber is in the well, you will be even 5D, using virtual reality so that people can literally go able to tell where production ? uid is coming from, whether into the data, to see what is happening. it’s optimized, how much water it contains, and you can use “We can use AI and then the visualization and virtual real- that to increase production ef? ciency and maximize recovery ity capabilities developed in the gaming industry to show the from the reservoir.” information in the third, fourth and ? fth dimension,” Gaston Sensalytx was developed out of the Grey Matters Program, says. “With VR you can get close to the data.” which was set up to leverage the knowledge and experience

Gaston admits that the processing will still need high- of oil and gas industry professionals who were at risk of re-

Downhole ? ber optic installation offshore.

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