INDUSTRY FIELD GUIDE
What oil and gas operators can evaluate for AI licensing
A well record can be easy to find and still leave the most useful questions unanswered.
NAICS 211120 · Crude Petroleum Extraction
NAICS 211130 · Natural Gas Extraction
NAICS 213111 · Drilling Oil and Gas Wells
NAICS 213112 · Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations
A well record can be easy to find and still leave the most useful questions unanswered. The Railroad Commission of Texas provides public records and some well logs. It also explains that Texas crude production is generally reported by lease, so a well-level target can require additional information. A potential contributor's opportunity is in an operator-authorized dataset that improves on a public baseline through calibration, higher resolution or verified outcomes. Scale AI lists energy and utilities among its partnership sectors. Texas well records · Texas production reporting · Scale data partnership
A potential pilot might join an approved time series to an operator-reviewed downtime record. Keep timestamps and time zones, depth reference, units, measurement method, tool changes, event start and stop, and observed versus inferred flags. Hold out entire wells or operating periods during testing to see whether an anomaly classifier generalizes. Discuss whether the buyer needs well logs, maintenance decisions, equipment telemetry or technical document evaluation.
Review asset ownership, joint-venture terms, service company agreements, infrastructure security and any restrictions on precise locations before preparing data. Do the first review on an approved inventory or lab example. Obtain a real buyer brief and operator approval before collecting new footage or sharing restricted data.
First step. Describe one field or equipment dataset at a high level, including granularity, years, rights holder and the decision it records. Describe your dataset.
Original Fiund exercise
Keep a lease aggregate separate from a well-level target
Invented lease and well aliases illustrate data granularity. The exercise contains no actual locations, operating quantities, telemetry or production advice.
| Record | Source | What it records |
|---|---|---|
| LEASE-L1 | Practice period total | Lease L reports 100 demonstration units for June. |
| MAP-L2 | Documented practice membership | For June, L contains well aliases Alder and Birch. No per-well allocation is supplied. |
| EVENT-L3 | Separate practice event | Alder has a recorded two-hour downtime event. The packet supplies no flow history or volume attribution for either well. |
Question for the model
Can the aggregate be assigned to Alder, divided equally between wells or allocated from the downtime event?
Show the reference answer and checks
None of those well-level allocations is established. L1 supplies the lease-period total, L2 supplies membership and L3 supplies an event for Alder. Membership does not define a volume split, and downtime without a documented attribution basis does not allocate production. Report the 100-unit lease aggregate and the missing well-level evidence without inventing a 50/50 split or a causal performance conclusion.
- Relabeling a lease total as one well's output.
- Assuming equal allocation solely from the number of listed wells.
- Using an event duration to infer production without an authorized measurement basis.
Fields to preserve
- Reporting entity and period
- Keep a lease aggregate at its documented granularity.
- Membership version
- Preserve which well aliases belong to the stated period.
- Measurement and attribution basis
- Identify the evidence required for a per-well target.
- Observed event versus inference
- Keep the downtime record separate from an unprovided volume conclusion.
Test another case
Add a documented allocation for the same lease and period, then a second period with different membership. The model must not reuse the first mapping blindly.
All records are fabricated. Real proposals need operator, joint-venture and service-source authority. Exclude locations, controls, equipment settings, access details and restricted operating history.
Discuss a contribution
Describe the sources you control, the task they could support and what has already been checked. Use the existing-data assessment for an archive or the collection brief for a new recording project. The contributor agreement defines Fiund’s licensing authority and compensation. A guide or fictional exercise does not establish an accepted collection or a sale.