He has authored more than 170 technical papers and carried out more than 60 projects for NOCs and IOCs. He is a SPE Distinguished Lecturer and has been featured in the Distinguished Author Series of SPE’s Journal of Petroleum Technology (JPT) four times. He is the founder of Petroleum Data-Driven Analytics, SPE’s Technical Section dedicated to machine learning and data mining. He has been honored by the US Secretary of Energy for his technical contribution in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon (Macondo) incident in the Gulf of Mexico and was a member of US Secretary of Energy’s Technical Advisory Committee on Unconventional Resources (2008-2014). He represented the United States in the International Standard Organization (ISO) on Carbon Capture and Storage (2014-2016).
Chapter 1: Introduction
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Published:2017
"Introduction", Data-Driven Reservoir Modeling, Shahab D. Mohaghegh
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We are living in an interesting time. Let us put the speed at which technology is changing our world in perspective. Take the example of the printing press vs. electronic mail or email. The printing press was invented in the fifteenth century and changed how people communicated. It was the most common mode of communication for more than 25 generations.1 It still is an integral part of our lives. But no one doubts that many of its functions are now performed by new technologies such as email, the Internet, eBooks, eNews, and so on. Furthermore, email became popular only after the 1990s. It quickly grew to become the most used mode of communication among people of all persuasions. However, now, in less than only one generation, it is losing its prominent position in human communications to other newly invented communication modes. The new generation hardly uses email. Email is now being replaced by text messages and social network communications. Email, such a step-change in our communications, is ready to relinquish its prominence in less than one generation. This is the speed at which the technology is moving forward.
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