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Volve dataset. First look of the Reservoir simulation models.

The Eclipse reservoir models from the Volve dataset working like a charm. The compressed file is 399 MB in size.

I was able to open the models with ResInsight (thank you Matthew Kirkman). The software is open source and relatively easy to use.

Here is the Eclipse case opened.

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Volve datasets: what can we learn?

Let’s enter the individual size of each of the Volve data files: # megabytes cat(sprintf("Megabytes\n")) #> Megabytes (mega <- c(geophysics = 99, reservoir_eclipse = 390, well_technical = 212, seismic_vsp = 95, production = 2, reports = 162)) #> geophysics reservoir_eclipse well_technical seismic_vsp #> 99 390 212 95 #> production reports #> 2 162 # gigabytes cat(sprintf("Gigabytes\n")) #> Gigabytes (giga <- c(geoscience = 54.6, reservoir_rms = 2.1, well_logs = 6.

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If you are doing linear regression, is it AI, ML or just statistics?

If you are doing linear regression, is it AI, ML or just statistics? If you are applying a neural network for classification, is it AI or ML? Do you believe that AI is reaching human-like capabilities? Is AI a science, is it a journey or a technology? Where do you think originates the obsession of companies with renaming everything AI? Or representing AI with humanoids life forms, robotic arms or brains?

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Starting Bayesian with Stan

Starting Bayesian #Machinelearning with #stan and #rstats. Surprised by the fact that model recipes written in R and Stan are compiled to C++ using whatever number of cores your machine has.

  • Correction: Bayesian machine learning -> Probabilistic Machine Learning

Is there a way to add a thumbnail to the post in the Main page?

I would like to add a thumbnail of the main image on the left or right of the posts shown in the main page.

How can I do that?

Customizing Rob Hyndman template

Just made changes in Rob Hyndman template to adapt to my new static website.

My blogdown adventure

I have had my notes here and there: Evernote, network drives, LinkedIn, SPE forums. And I could never find the ideal way to put the data and info together until I found Hugo. Blogdown documentation I borrowed the template ideas for my blog from Ron J. Hyndman blog. The source code for the site is now hosted on github. If you find any problem in this site, please feel free to let me know at.

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OTC 2016: second day

For the first time since I started attending OTC in 2001, I could park in the first row of the parking lot. I wonder why! Couple of things grabbed my attention immediately during the session “Coping with low prices”: a more collaborative attitude between Deepwater companies to share R&D costs; “co-creation”, and despite of the low oil prices and financial straits, keeping safety first as a non-negotiable. I was happy to hear that maintaining the culture of safety is as important, or more, than fitting the financial targets.

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Help

It is always a pleasure to help Petroleum Engineering colleagues with data science questions. You can send me message via Twitter and LinkedIn. Please, be patient, if I don’t go back to you quick; I may be traveling. These are very useful sources to find answers. They have helped me a lot: Questions on data analysis: crossvalidated.com. Questions about R: stackoverflow.com. I will appreciate if you send me feedback on the packages and software I have published to the corresponding package Issues section in its repository.

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