The Evolving Landscape of Oil and Gas Chemicals: Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Chemical-Enhanced Oil Recovery in the Energy Transition Toward Sustainable Energy Systems and Net-Zero Emissions
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Abstract
Chemical-enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a field of study that can gain significantly from artificial intelligence (AI), addressing uncertainties such as mobility control, interfacial tension reduction, wettability alteration, and emulsifications. The primary objective of this paper is to introduce an integrated framework for AI and chemical EOR for energy harvest operations. Central emphasis is placed on the energy transition, with the aim of expediting the development of cleaner energy harvesting systems and attaining the goal of net-zero emission. To do so, we present how the energy transition is changing the manufacturing of the chemicals for EOR application. For this, the uncertainty associated with materials' design and critical role of the simulators for transferring the laboratory experiences into full-field implementations is discussed. The concept of digitalization and its impact on energy companies are highlighted. The role of digital twin in simulators integration is discussed, emphasizing how increased data access can help design more tolerant chemicals for harsh reservoir environments using real-time data. Also, we discuss how the chemical suppliers, research institutes, startups, and field operators can benefit from self-leaning and robotic laboratories for chemicals manufacturing. Moreover, this paper explores how including AI perspectives can improve our understanding of developing chemical formulations by blending hybrid capabilities. This approach contributes to making energy production more sustainable and aligning with the goal of zero emissions. A workflow is presented to demonstrate how the integration of AI and chemical EOR can be used for both hydrocarbon production and other energy transition operations, such as carbon capture, utilization and storage, hydrogen storage, and geothermal reservoirs. The outcome of this paper stands as a pioneering effort that uniquely addresses these challenges for both academia and the industry and can open many additional doors and identify topics requiring further investigations. Received: 21 November 2023 | Revised: 22 January 2024 | Accepted: 29 January 2024 Conflicts of Interest The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to this work. Data Availability Statement Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".