Patterson-UTI Digital Series, Part 2: Machine learning meets the rig through automation feedback loop

DC recently spoke with Alex Groh, Patterson-UTI Senior Manager – Data Science, about how the PTEN Digital Performance Center monitors automation products in the field and relay lessons learned to design teams. In turn, this can lead to system upgrades that drive performance improvements. Examples of such upgrades, he said, include a reinforcement learning upgrade to the company’s Genesis generator management system and an upgrade to the machine learning algorithms behind the company’s CORTEX Adaptive Auto Driller.

This is the second in a series of three videos about the PTEN Digital Performance Center. Click here to view the first video, featuring Carter Nenninger, Drilling Optimization Manager.