关键词: 人工智能, 石油工程, 产业升级, 技术创新, 增储上产, 降本增效

Abstract: As a new engine and core driving force for the new round of industrial transformation and technological revolution, artificial intelligence has become the emerging strategic technology leading the future development. This paper studies artificial intelligence technological development of the world-famous oil and gas companies in recent years, such as Schlumberger, Conoco-Phillips, Shell and BP, as well as their application cases. It also focuses on the profound impact of artificial intelligence on petroleum engineering industrial transformation and upgrading as well as technological innovation. For example, artificial intelligence promotes petroleum engineering industry to develop towards unmanned operation, brings a number of departments together for synergies, facilitates a multiple of disciplines to interact with each other, and consolidates integration of the whole industrial chain. Based on further understanding of reservoirs, the drilling and fracturing parameters can be optimized, thus allowing petroleum engineering technology to increase reserves and production and bring about cost-effectiveness. In the light of China’s current petroleum engineering business development, this paper points out that the State-owned petroleum companies should concentrate themselves on cost-effectiveness for oil and gas exploration and development in active efforts to meet the challenges for upgrading of the petroleum engineering industry on the basis of artificial intelligence. They should construct the big data platform for integration, step up the efforts for technological innovation, make more preferential policies for support of artificial intelligence, accelerate transformation and upgrading of petroleum engineering business, modernization of the key technology and cultivation of talents, and gradually complete the artificial intelligence ecological system of petroleum engineering.