Framework for integration of geo-information extraction, geo-reasoning and geologist-responsive inquiries

A system configured to analyze geophysical data, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory machine readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause a computing system to:
• access the geophysical data;
• perform, using an information extractor analyzing the geophysical data, information extraction in order to generate information indicative of geo-features in a subsurface, wherein the information extractor is trained in natural language and generates a description based on the geophysical data;
• perform, using an inference engine analyzing the information indicative of the geo-features in the subsurface and natural language questions as input, information analysis in order to generate at least one of a summary of at least one aspect of the subsurface or a response to at least one question regarding the subsurface, wherein the inference engine is trained for natural language processing in order to generate the summary or to generate the responses to the natural language questions regarding the subsurface, wherein the summary or the response are related to one or more geological features in a subsurface indicative of containing hydrocarbons;
• and
• use the summary or the responses related to the one or more geological features in order to drill one or more wells or use the one or more wells to extract hydrocarbons from the subsurface;
• wherein the information extractor and the inference engine are integrated and act in combination in order to generate the response to at least one question regarding the subsurface.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a computing system to:

• access geophysical data;
• perform, using an information extractor analyzing the geophysical data, information extraction in order to generate information indicative of geo-features in a subsurface, wherein the information extractor is trained in natural language and generates a description based on the geophysical data;
• perform, using an inference engine analyzing the information indicative of the geo-features in the subsurface and natural language questions as input, information analysis in order to generate at least one of a summary of at least one aspect of the subsurface or a response to at least one question regarding the subsurface, wherein the inference engine is trained for natural language processing in order to generate the summary or to generate the responses to the natural language questions regarding the subsurface, wherein the summary or the response are related to one or more geological features in a subsurface indicative of containing hydrocarbons;
• and
• use the summary or the responses related to the one or more geological features in order to drill one or more wells or use the one or more wells to extract hydrocarbons from the subsurface;
• wherein the information extractor and the inference engine are integrated and act in combination in order to generate the response to at least one question regarding the subsurface.