My Human-Centered Oilfield Automation paper, originally published in the Schlumberger Journal of Modeling, Design, and Simulation, Vol 2, June, 2011, and now on the web puts, in a way, the two sides of my scientific life together.
On one side, the oilfield, its huge and intricate technology, global and remote geography, and fierce pursuit of business opportunities. On the other side, the mind with its most salient human revelations, from language to religion, sensation to sentiment, gesture to metaphor, and the stochastic consistency of its inner constitution.
Unifying both sides is the computer, which extends the mind and the knowledge, actions and operations, and constitutes the framework of our new social organizations. In Human-Centered Oilfield Automation, I show how quintessential neurocomputation, supported by stochastic grammars, allows bringing automation to the oilfield by providing extensions of the mind while supporting the preciousness of human innovation, understanding, and capability to act and react in a way that is in most cases well ahead of computer progress.
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