Winkler predicts all oil geosteering will be automated within five years
Hugh Winkler · 6 Oil Drilling Companies Pay Him to Map Hard to Quantify Oil Well Pay Zone's · Aug 29, 2023 · at 12:01
Hugh Winkler, founder of Factor Technology, discusses the future of automated machine learning software in horizontal oil drilling operations.
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“But I think it'll eventually prevail so that in five years, nobody, nobody's manually doing GPS during the old way. They might be, might not be using hard software, but I think in five years, people will all be doing it in this computed automated fashion. That we're pioneering.”
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