Machine Learning Applications in Subsurface Energy Resource Management presents a current snapshot of the state of the art and future outlook for machine learning applications in subsurface energy resource management (e.g., oil and gas, geologic carbon sequestration, geothermal energy).

Section I: Introduction, 1. Machine Learning Applications in Subsurface Energy Resource Management: State of the Art, 2. Solving Problems with Data Science, Section II: Reservoir Characterization Applications, 3. Machine Learning-Aided Characterization Using Geophysical Data Modalities, 4. Machine Learning to Discover, Characterize, and Produce Geothermal Energy, Section III: Drilling Operations Applications, 5. Real-Time Drilling and Completion Analytics: From Cloud Computing to Edge Computing and Their Machine Learning Applications, 6. Using Machine Learning to Improve Drilling of Unconventional Resources, Section IV: Production Data Analysis Applications, 7. Machine Learning Assisted Production Data Filtering and Decline Curve Analysis in Unconventional Plays, 8. Hybrid Data-Driven and Physics-Informed Reservoir Modeling for Unconventional Reservoirs, 9. Role of Analytics in Extracting Data-Driven Models from Reservoir Surveillance, 10. Machine Learning Assisted Forecasting of Reservoir Performance, Section V: Reservoir Modeling Applications, 11. An Efficient Deep Learning Based Workflow Incorporating a Reduced Physics Model for Drainage Volume Visualization in Unconventional Reservoirs, 12. Reservoir Modeling Using Fast Predictive Machine Learning Algorithms for Geological Carbon Storage, 13. Physics-Embedded Machine Learning for Modeling and Optimization of Mature Fields, 14. Deep Neural Network Surrogate Flow Models for History Matching and Uncertainty Quantification, 15. Generalizable Field Development Optimization Using Deep Reinforcement Learning with Field Examples, Section VI: Predictive Maintenance Applications, 16. Case Studies Involving Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance in Oil and Gas Production Operations, 17. Machine Learning for Multiphase Flow Metering, Section VII: Summary and Future Outlook, 18. Machine Learning Applications in Subsurface Energy Resource Management: Future Prognosis