AI Uncovers Potentially Hazardous, Forgotten Oil and Gas Wells

Originally published at: AI Uncovers Potentially Hazardous, Forgotten Oil and Gas Wells | NVIDIA Technical Blog

With as many as 800,000 forgotten oil and gas wells scattered across the US, researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), have developed an AI model capable of accurately locating these wells at scale—ones that may be leaking toxic chemicals and greenhouse gases, like methane, into the environment. The model is designed to identify many…