PETE 419: Petroleum Data Analytics and Machine Learning

Course Description

Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.Working knowledge about data analytics suitable for petroleum engineers and geoscientists; emphasis on implementing data-driven methods on various types of subsurface data; assembly of data-driven workflows and application of them on various types of subsurface data generated during petroleum engineering and geoscience operations and work on case studies that integrate various domains of petroleum engineering and geoscience; emphasis on the use of supervised learning, classification and regression, unsupervised learning, transformations, clustering, and feature extraction, and neural networks using open-source Python computational platforms; facilitation of understanding the basics of machine learning, data science and data analysis and their applications to petroleum engineering and geoscience.Prerequisite:Grade of C or better inPETE 219andPETE 301or approval of instructor.