This Neural Net Could Help Find Orphaned Wells

In the U.S., as many as three-quarters of a million oil and gas wells are orphaned, their locations and operators are unknown, and many are leaking climate-warming methane into the atmosphere. We’ve got to find them, but surveying the United States with airplanes and drones gives only limited coverage.

“If we want to reconstruct the full field to potentially be able to find these wells, we need advanced machine learning models to grab these sparse data sets and fill …

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