Artificial intelligence can help shale oil drillers reduce expenses, increase productivity and improve work methods, but trusting the logic inside…
AI can provide immediate impact for oil and gas companies—reduced expenses, increased productivity, improved work methods—but energy companies have been slow to adopt the technologies available. This might have to do with security concerns, cost, or even just a lack of understanding about the benefits to be gained.
But it also could have a lot to do with humans’ inability to understand what’s going on inside the black box…
https://www.automationworld.com/machine-learning-roadblocks-oil-and-gas