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Book Review: Basic Wave Analysis
2021-02-27 09:12:08| Oil IT Journal - www.oilit.com
Illustrious geophysicist Enders A Robinson*'s new book Basic Wave Analysis** (BWA) sets out to explain the fundamentals of computer processing in exploration geophysics. After reading the introduction we imagined an exchange between the authors and their editor who asks why there is no mention of big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. BWA's introduction is an impassioned answer to our imagined query, and its content an erudite exposé of centuries of'prior art'.
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Book review: Looking at where weve been
2020-11-12 19:58:00| Beef
Beef producers have adapted and changed as the beef business evolved.
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Book Review: Pipeline Spatial Data Modeling and Pipeline WebGIS
2020-10-30 12:12:29| Oil IT Journal - www.oilit.com
Zhenpei Li's book describes 'PSDM', a pipeline data model developed for China's Yong-Hu-Ning long-distance pipeline. The book includes a short history of pipeline GIS, Li places pipeline GIS in the context of Al Gore's 1998 'Digital Earth'. PSDM is a Chinese localization of the Esri APDM pipeline data model.
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Book Review: How to Store C02 Underground
2020-07-03 20:00:00| Oil IT Journal - www.oilit.com
Philip Ringrose's new book, 'How to Store CO2 Underground: Insights from early-mover CCS Projects' is a clear, well-illustrated summary of the geological and engineering aspects of CO2 sequestration. Ringrose, who shares his affiliations between NNTU, Equinor and the University of Edinburgh, acknowledges a bias towards Norwegian and European projects and Equinor's CCS operations. However as these, especially Equinor's, are copiously studied and published, this is hardly a disadvantage. Ringrose's 'essential message' is that the engineered geological storage of CO2 is a relatively straightforward and established technology which will be urgently needed in the coming decades.
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Book Review - Quantitative Geosciences: Data Analytics, Geostatistics, Reservoir Characterization and Modeling
2020-05-02 17:11:41| Oil IT Journal - www.oilit.com
Zee Ma's monster (640 page) work sets out to fill the gap between quantitative and descriptive geoscience analysis for reservoir characterization with a systematic 'integrative' approach. While recent data-driven approaches are included, QG adopts essentially a mathematical and first principles approach. The fairly heavy mathematical content is balanced by Ma's erudition and insights that run through the work. Ma argues that in-depth domain knowledge and first-class statistical know-how will trump the naive 'data-science' approach.
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