First Results of Formalization of Drilling Knowledge by the Event Bush Method

Abstract

Geological drilling, being one of the key methods of investigation of the earth's interior and extraction of hydrocarbons and groundwater, represents a highly promising, urgent, yet virtually uncovered area for dynamic knowledge representation. In one sense, it favors some straightforward solution; in another, it brings serious challenges – such as interdisciplinarity and difference in reasoning by formulae and by concepts. Most importantly, existing conceptual models developed in the static knowledge representation paradigm generally do not reflect the dynamic character of the process of drilling. This chapter aims only to start paving this road by examining whether, and how, the principal method of dynamic knowledge representation, the event bush, may work in the interdisciplinary domain of drilling.