Published inAnalytics Vidhya·PinnedMachine Learning for Prediction in Hydraulic FracturingDecision Tree to Predict Number of Perf Clusters per Stage — Unconventional shale production has contributed to most of the worldwide oil and gas economy these days that comes from major producers such as USA, Canada, and Russia. In the production phase, one of the most crucial activities is perforating the reservoir from the wellbore. The reservoir, which we encounter as…Oil And Gas8 min readOil And Gas8 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·PinnedOilfield Lithology Prediction from Drilling Data with Machine LearningPractical workflow and lesson-learned — In the oil and gas industry recently, we find quite a few applications of machine learning. I wrote another article last year about sonic log prediction, which surprisingly obtained so many responses, and this work spread very rapidly. Another ML application is lithology prediction. Lithology refers to the type of…Oil And Gas9 min readOil And Gas9 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·PinnedPrediction of P-Sonic Log in the Volve Oil Field using Machine LearningStep-by-step explained, using Scikit-Learn — In 2018, Norwegian oil company Equinor disclosed a massive subsurface and operation dataset from their Volve oil field in the North Sea. For two years until now, it has been good news for all people who are passionate about improving and solving challenges in the study of oil and gas…Machine Learning11 min readMachine Learning11 min read
Jan 9, 20225 Predictions for AI in 2022How AI breakthroughs in 2021 will decide its future — Artificial Intelligence is growing extremely fast these days. The complexity of things around us that grows from time to time has motivated everyone to rely on the premise of AI to assist humans in many ways, from detecting fraud transactions, predicting market price, to making decisions in the high-level stakeholders…Artificial Intelligence10 min readArtificial Intelligence10 min read
Dec 31, 2021The Epistemology of Immanuel KantHow do we know and understand? — Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was a German philosopher born and spent his life in Königsberg, the capital city of Prussia (the present-day Kaliningrad in Russia) who largely contributed to fields of epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics in philosophy through his three books, Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der Reinen Vernunft), Critique of…Philosophy9 min readPhilosophy9 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Aug 24, 2021Faster Drilling with Machine Learning and Particle Swarm OptimizationHow to find the sweet spot to optimize ROP in drilling — Optimization is at the heart of every engineering design–Boeing used optimization to design the optimum topology of their airplane wings to fly more efficiently, GE used optimization to design the optimum wind turbine blade that rotates faster to generate more electricity, and more other cool examples. In the oil and…Optimization8 min readOptimization8 min read
Mar 10, 2021The 20th-Century World Politics in BriefThe dynamics of world politics explained w/ words and photos — When the world just started in 1900, a lot has happened in the previous century. The UK was under Queen Victoria who has reigned for 60 years and had influenced the Victorian lifestyle, the industrial revolution that shaped automobiles and manufactures, the abolishment of slavery in the US after President…History13 min readHistory13 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·May 24, 2020Member-onlyIntro to Open Database for Geoscience Computing: Part 1 of 2Learn how to access massive online open geoscience databases in Google Colab — Nowadays, open geoscience data are very important for researches, benchmarking, and project purposes. They are so useful that people working in the energy industries (oil and gas, and geothermal) and in academia utilize these datasets to do benchmarking on their methodology, and also as reproducible teaching material for higher university…Computing13 min readComputing13 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Mar 15, 2020Member-onlyHandling Big Volume of Petroleum Well Log Data with a Boosted Time-Efficiency on PythonHow Python has revolutionized the way we interact with big data in the petroleum industry and so should we know about it — This is a story of a geophysicist who has been already getting tired of handling the big volume of well log data with manual input in most commercial software out there. Who feels the same I feel? However, I successfully developed a way to get out of this tiring routine…Geoscience8 min readGeoscience8 min read
Jan 20, 2019About My Ambitious Project: Introducing Carbon Sequestration into Carbonate Formation in Indonesia, the First in AsiaMy project is proposing a safe and reliable geological CO2 sequestration into carbonate rocks as deep as 3 kilometres underneath the earth in Indonesia, the first in Asia. This will turn the damaging CO2 greenhouse gas into rocks and store it in the crust for years. …Climate Change11 min readClimate Change11 min read
