Fully-automated seismic horizon picking dramatically shortens the time between acquiring seismic data and picking drilling targets. Oil and gas exploration companies worldwide spend millions of tedious man-hours picking horizons on seismic data to produce inventories of drilling targets. Freeing up that time to better incorporate the geologic and geophysical properties within mapped structures guarantees more drilling success. Artificial intelligence is frequently mentioned in today's news: self-driving cars, vehicle identification, robot vacuums, fingerprint identification, facial recognition and Alexa are just a few examples. Why not seismic data interpretation? Here, it is proven that automated seismic horizon picking is possible.
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