AI is a major catalyst for change in the upstream sector and will provide a strong competitive advantage for early adopters. In this podcast we interview Professor Ertekin, Professor Emeritus and prior Department Head of the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, the George E. Trimble Chair in Earth and Mineral Sciences, at Pennsylvania State University to discuss his 4 decades of research in reservoir engineering.

Professor Ertekin shares his experience and research in deploying technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance and accelerate to solve problems in reservoir engineering. He also identifies which technologies are the most mature and tested to provide high confidence intervals to those that wish to deploy them.

We also explore how companies and academia can work together to accelerate the deployment of these technologies to create predictable outcomes in the field. Ultimately, it is the innovators in the space that are willing to deploy these technologies that will gain a significant competitive advantage.