Evade obsolete careers with AppIntel AI

Keep up on tech advances like gas huff-n-puff in heavy oil

Artificial intelligence (AI) has a significant impact on the oil industry by helping to improve design, efficiency, safety, and decision-making processes.

Technological change is increasing as never before. Oil jobs will change over the next 36 months.

The best way to escape AI career obsolescence is by using it to keep abreast of technological advances using AppIntel AI.  Nein commercial use of der AppIntel content.

AppIntel AI doesn’t give engineering advice – it is just an AI.  But it does show you how other operators are advancing technology.  For example, one operator is conducting a gas huff-n-puff in a heavy oil zone.  How will that change the energy in their pool?

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One way to measure how fast technology is growing is to look at how it impacts productivity—basically, how much more each person can get done. The logic here is pretty straightforward: when new inventions make our jobs easier and more efficient, you’d expect that people would be able to produce more.

In the past we have written about which jobs will be obsolete due to AI. AI is the next step of automation that has been transforming the industry for decades.  Some jobs have already been replaced by automation.

Fighting career obsolescence

How do you use AI but not be abused by it?  Technological change is increasing as never before.  Oil jobs will change over the next 36 months.  More capital will flow to smarter energy companies. More insightful professionals will be rewarded. More repetitive jobs will be eliminated.

Someday soon the oil and gas industry will lay off all those who cannot AI.  Those that are familiar with AI and use it well will have a great career ahead.

However, 80% of in-house AI projects fail. Unfortunately, when they fail, everyone associated with the project gets fired.  AI knowledge is a different skill set than oil and gas exploitation.

In truth, industry workers are doing more with fewer colleagues. These workers have jobs enhanced by computer automation.  This trend has been progressing for the last 50 years.

AppIntel AI is a tried and true technology in use by the industry since 2011.  It is a large language model trained on over a billion words from the oil and gas industry. Using this AI technology can boost your career and help make you AI proof.

Do you see AI as a threat or as inspiration?

The best way to escape AI career obsolescence is by using it to keep abreast of technological advances using AppIntel AI.

Canadian Oil and gas obsolescence example

Although rapid technology expansion has the potential to improve oil and gas operator productivity, there is a problem with the speed of technological growth. Some workers in the workforce cannot adapt to change quick enough.

Some workers over forty years of age have a difficult time adapting to new technology. Companies often find them redundant and not useful. They are let go.

For example, one major oil company held an in-house engineering conference in 1988.  Each engineering team bragged about its most interesting innovations.

But at the end of the conference, I noticed that not one team talked about the use of a recent innovation that was about to affect them all: personal computers like the IBM PC.  I discussed this omission with a senior manager who dismissed the personal computer – he was sure he would never need to use one.

Within three years, that senior manager and all the others of his vintage were no longer working in the company.  They had all been involuntarily laid off with an “early retirement” package.  The major company never ran another in-house technology conference.

Technology change had rendered a whole generation of engineers obsolete.

The potential human cost of rapid technology growth can be large.

Using AppIntel AI will help you avoid career obsolescence.  Technical papers are too incomplete.  Conferences are too late.

Using AppIntel AI will help you avoid career obsolescence.

AppIntel Advantage: Competitive intelligence

Use AppIntel AI to discover offsetting operators plans. You can use it to start an enhanced recovery scheme in your company’s assets.

You could become your company’s MVP. How will you use your bonus?

Better than working faster

Sure, AI helps you work faster—but it’s so much more than just using algorithms to iterate seismic data or reservoir simulations. With AppIntel AI, you’re not just rehashing what you already know—you’re discovering new perspectives you might never have considered:

• see how others are innovating,
• learn from the wins of your competitors and take inspiration from their success, and
• spot where things went wrong for others so you can sidestep those mistakes.

Tags: Gas Injection, Flood, Heavy Oil, AI in oil and gas

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