Aramco said its Automatic Seismic Acquisition and Processing for Exploration and Production (Apex) initiative would improve productivity, increase image quality and reduce costs.
The company aims to use robotics technology in 3D shoots and automate key processing tasks such as near surface and sub-surface velocity estimation for seismic data processing.
“With the advent of increasingly large data volumes and wireless acquisition technology it will no longer be possible to quality control data acquisition and processing with direct human interaction,” Aramco said in a statement.
“Instead,
