🤖 Hands on Machine Learning for Geoscientists and Engineers
🔎 Course Description Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the energy sector — from exploration to production optimization, predictive maintenance, and business operations. This course demystifies AI for geoscientists, engineers, and managers, giving them practical knowledge and tools to understand, …
Overview
🔎 Course Description
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the energy sector — from exploration to production optimization, predictive maintenance, and business operations. This course demystifies AI for geoscientists, engineers, and managers, giving them practical knowledge and tools to understand, implement, and collaborate effectively on AI projects. The program covers the fundamentals of machine learning, key algorithms, data workflows, and AI applications tailored to oil and gas challenges.
🎯 Learning Objectives
✅ Grasp core AI and machine learning concepts
✅ Understand data types, quality issues, and feature engineering
✅ Explore supervised and unsupervised algorithms
✅ Build and evaluate simple AI models using real energy datasets
✅ Recognize AI’s potential and limitations in energy operations
✅ Communicate effectively with data science teams
👥 Who Should Attend
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Engineers (reservoir, production, drilling, facilities)
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Geoscientists and petrophysicists
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Technical team leads and asset managers
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Data analysts and IT professionals in energy companies
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Anyone interested in applying AI to energy projects
🗂️ Training Format
✅ Instructor-led lectures and discussions
✅ Practical, hands-on exercises with easy-to-use AI tools (Python notebooks, web-based platforms)
✅ Case studies of AI success in oil and gas
✅ Group projects
✅ Daily Q&A sessions
📅 Detailed Daily Agenda with Time Breaks
📅 Day 1: Introduction to AI and Machine Learning Basics
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration & Welcome |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | What is AI? Myths & Realities in Oil & Gas |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | Data Science & Machine Learning Foundations |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Data Types & Data Quality in Energy Datasets |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | AI Project Lifecycle & Tools Overview |
📅 Day 2: Preparing Data for AI
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Data Cleaning & Handling Missing Values |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Feature Engineering: Extracting Meaningful Information |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) for Energy Data |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Hands-On: EDA on Production or Drilling Data |
📅 Day 3: Supervised Learning Algorithms
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Linear & Logistic Regression Explained |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Decision Trees & Random Forests |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Model Evaluation Metrics (Accuracy, RMSE, ROC) |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Hands-On: Building a Predictive Model |
📅 Day 4: Unsupervised Learning & Clustering
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Understanding Clustering & Dimensionality Reduction |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | K-Means & Hierarchical Clustering |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Principal Component Analysis (PCA) |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Hands-On: Clustering Energy Production Profiles |
📅 Day 5: AI Applications & Group Project
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | AI Applications in Exploration & Production |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Ethics, Bias, & Limitations of AI |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Group Project: Design an AI Solution for a Real Challenge |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Group Presentations & Closing Discussion |
📦 Materials Provided
✅ Interactive Python notebooks
✅ AI workflow templates
✅ Real oil & gas datasets
✅ Certificate of Completion
Target audiences
- Reservoir Engineers, Geologists
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