Three practical AI use cases
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MONITORING CO2 STORAGE
Monitoring and ensuring the long-term safety of CO2 storage is a key issue. 4D seismic consists of repeated 3D seismic surveys carried out over a period of time on the same field. Used to maximize the exploitation of hydrocarbon fields, this technique images the evolution of reservoirs and the CO2 to be injected and stored. AI can be used to accelerate the building of the geophysical model required to predict the behavior of stored CO2 according to the subsurface layers crossed.
ACCELERATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE LUBRICANTS
To support the formulation of lubricants with a low carbon footprint, the Company’s researchers combine AI and simulation. Using it in their standard theoretical calculation methods, they can simulate, from quantum scale to classic physical scale, systems with 10,000 atoms, and which are thus more complex and representative than real systems. This results in more robust predictions of additive performances.
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PROSPECTING FOR THE INSTALLATION OF SOLAR FARMS
To support the development of our solar activities, our teams have developed a solution using AI to automatically process satellite or aerial images to delimit zones of interest and estimate their solar production potential.
Special algorithms have been created to detect and calculate the photovoltaic potential of three types of target: roofs (with the detection of any obstacles, such as chimneys, openings and air-conditioning units), car parks (with the calculation of the “albedo”, the reflective power of a surface, to estimate as accurately as possible the production potential of bifacial photovoltaic panels) and bodies of water (with estimates of annual variability).