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A comprehensive study on artificial intelligence in oil and gas sector

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The authors investigate how artificial intelligence modifies a huge piece of the energy area, the oil and gas industry. This paper attempts to evaluate technical and non-technical factors affecting the adoption of machine learning technologies. The study includes machine learning development platforms, network architecture, and opportunities and challenges of adopting machine learning technologies in the oil and gas industry. The authors elaborate on the three different sectors in this industry namely upstream, midstream, and downstream. Herein, a review is presented to evaluate the applications and scope of machine learning in the oil and gas industry to optimize the upstream operations (including exploration, drilling, reservoir, and production), midstream operations (including transportation using pipelines, ships, and road vehicles), and downstream operations (including production of refinery products like fuels, lubricants, and plastics). Enhanced processing of seismic data is illustrated which provides the industry with a better understanding of machine learning applications. Basing on the investigation of AI implementation prospects and the survey of subsisting implementations, they diagram the latest patterns in creating AI-based instruments and distinguish their impacts on speeding up and de-gambling measures in the business. They examine AI proposition and calculations, just as the job and accessibility of information in the portion. Furthermore, they examine the principal non-specialized difficulties that forestall the concentrated use of man-made brainpower in the oil and gas industry (OGI), identified with information, individuals, and new types of joint effort. They additionally diagram potential situations of how man-made reasoning will create in the OGI and how it might transform it later on (in 5, 10, and 20 years).

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Abbreviations

AI:

artificial intelligence

OGI:

oil and gas industry

ML:

machine learning

IoT:

Internet of things

O&G:

oil and gas

HPC:

high-performance computing

ANN:

artificial neural network

MANN:

modular artificial network

LNG:

liquefied natural gas

MAS:

multi-agent system

SGCP:

simple gateway control protocol

GOSP:

gas–oil separation plant

PSO:

particle swarm optimization

PRISMS:

petroleum refinery incorporated supply chain modeler and simulator

SVM:

support vector machine

SCADA:

supervisory control and data acquisition

DOT:

designated order turn around

EFM:

enterprise feedback management

LIDAR:

light detection and ranging

DEA:

data envelopment analysis

PCA:

principal component analysis

RUL:

remaining useful life

BP:

British petroleum

GRNN:

general regression neural network

BPNN:

backpropagation neural network

DRIFT:

diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform

ROP:

rate of penetration

MILP:

mixed-integer linear programming

DNN:

deep neural network

RF:

random forest

KPI:

key performance indicator

LP:

linear programming

NM-MAS:

network management multi-agent system

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The authors are grateful to the Department of Chemical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, and Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, for the permission to publish this research.

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All the authors make a substantial contribution to this manuscript. DG and MS participated in drafting the manuscript. DG wrote the main manuscript. All the authors discussed the results and implication on the manuscript at all stages.

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Correspondence to Manan Shah.

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Gupta, ., Shah, M. A comprehensive study on artificial intelligence in oil and gas sector. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 50984–50997 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15379-z

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