关键词: 人工智能；油气勘探；地震勘探；测井解释；储层预测；数智化转型

Abstract: Against the background of both global energy transition and digital transformation, the new generation of AI technology will display a great potential in the oil exploration area. This article analyzes the panorama of new-generation AI development and the basic characteristics of AI in the oil and gas exploration area. It elaborates the AI opportunities in the areas of geophysics, logging, and reservoir prediction, including improvement of seismic data processing and interpreting efficiency, accuracy logging data processing accuracy and intelligence, and enhancement of prediction accuracy for the reservoir attributes. However, the new generation of AI technology also faces a series of challenges, such as data quality and diversity issues, model interpretability and inadequate credibility, barriers for understanding of complicated technical terms, technological integration and difficulties for cross-disciplinary cooperation, and safety and privacy protection. Therefore, it is necessary to establish the intelligent data basement, design the interpretation framework driven by the mechanisms, make knowledge modelling in the structural area, and construct the technology-talent-mechanism synergistic system. Based on in-depth integration of geology,geophysics and AI technology, oil and gas exploration is hopefully put into more intelligent, high-efficiency and accurate operation, thus injecting new vigor into sustainable energy industrial development.

Key words: artificial intelligence; oil and gas exploration; seismic exploration; logging interpretation; reservoir prediction; smart transformation