Data is essential to the Oil & Gas drilling industry. Depth, geologic layers, hardness, heat, etc. all provide clues for guiding drills toward successful finds. A major industry technology provider approached Iterate with a unique problem: the oil drilling machines in the field produce an ongoing record of the telemetry coming from the drill head, but that data is produced as an analog printout (looking similar to an EKG):
To make this data work at scale and to form a complete 3D model of the geologic layers in the area, our partner needed to digitize all of these printouts back into some digital form-- not just scans of the documents but getting all the data as numeric data from the graphs.
Our data engineers trained several different machine learning (ML) models to do the following:
We tackled this problem with zest and were able to produce a working app in a matter of a few weeks. Above is the Flow of how we put this app together.
This project empowered our partner not only to digitize an ongoing operational need but also to provide an excellent historical record that can further allow the end clients to synthesize more extensive trend data.
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Client:
Confidential
Goal:
Digital Transformation
Development Time:
5 weeks
Deployment:
Pilot