Big Data and Deep Learning: Industry Downturn Means Uptick in New Analytics

Permian Basin operators are drilling deep and long — laterals — in order to recover more of the region’s crude and natural gas.
They’re also going deep — as in deep learning — as part of those efforts.
High-tech advances such as big data, deep learning and artificial intelligence are increasingly finding their ways into upstream exploration and production operations. For example, Exxon Mobil Corp