中国石化新闻网讯 据钻机地带网站5月1日报道，在大多数情况下，油气专业人士并不担心人工智能(AI)的到来。

这是研究机构Sanford Rose Associates旗下HireStrong LLC的首席执行官兼技术招聘顾问约书亚·梅(Joshua May)的说法，他告诉钻机地带网站称，这是一种工具，就像电子邮件或电话一样。

梅表示，人工智能将有助于让一些工作更容易，一些工作更轻松等等，但它无法完成世界各地所需的真正工程任务。并补充道，“有太多的变数，我们总是需要工程师和有技术能力的人来执行工作，并知道如何解决问题。人工智能只是一个让其他人的生活更轻松的工具”。

总部位于休斯敦的Piper-Morgan Search创始人兼总裁格拉德尼·b·达罗(Gladney B. Darroh)表示，他在该行业得到的“感觉”是，大多数专业人士“对人工智能的可能性感到兴奋”。

他告诉钻机地带网站，他们确实相信，由于人工智能的创造力和效率，其有很大潜力来加强油气行业的效率，使其现有业务更加环保，并从长远来看，油气行业本身有能力实现从化石燃料转向绿色能源的转变。

他补充道，“最终，当人工智能等重大未知技术被引入时，石油和天然气专业人员与任何其他行业的专业人员一样——有些人会害怕，有些人会接受。大多数专业人士对人工智能持积极态度，并相信这种技术上的巨大飞跃将创造新技术、新公司和新工作。就个人而言，我同意他们的观点”。

持续关注

Petroplan的EMEA长期招聘主管尼尔·布拉德肖(Neil Bradshaw)称，工人们一直关注关于人工智能的问题，并补充道，众所周知，自上世纪80年代以来，技术进步取代工人的速度快于创造就业机会的速度。

Bradshaw表示，然而，工人们可以感到欣慰的是，很少有油气公司能够实施所需规模的技术，最近的研究表明，70%的数字化项目还没有通过试点阶段。

他补充道，“这些技术并不总是能产生明确的价值，如果管理层看不到产能提升或者优化改进，他们就不愿意承诺广泛部署这种技术。此外，新技术需要新技能的发展，并改变长期以来的工作惯例，这需要人员”。Bradshaw继续道，“只有这样，技术和技术管理人员的结合才能带来价值”。

人工智能应该被接受

Sanford Rose Associates的另一家子公司Birmingham Group的首席执行官Brian Binke在接受采访时表示，人工智能“不仅应该被油气专业人士所接受，而且应该被大多数工作专业人士所接受，因为它可以帮助优化工作流程，提高工人的安全性，并预测问题和提前解决问题”。

Binke称，“我认为人们对人工智能最大的误解是它将取代人类，但事实并非如此——人工智能正被用来摆脱平凡的日常任务，这样员工就可以专注于工作的其他部分”。他补充道，“我相信人工智能在很长很长一段时间内不能取代油气行业的工作群体”。

Binke强调，他看到客户正在投资能够分析地下和天气等当地情况的技术，他指出，这需要持续监测，以确保可靠和安全的运营。

他称，人工智能还被用于油气行业，使用配备热成像的无人机检查管道，这有助于检测任何泄漏。并补充道，还有一些技术可以帮助预测所有风险，并为井口监测制定情景计划。

郝芬 译自 钻机地带 网站

原文如下：

Are Oil and Gas Professionals Worried About AI?

For the most part, oil and gas professionals are not worried about artificial intelligence (AI).

That’s according to Joshua May, the CEO and Technical Recruiting Consultant for HireStrong LLC, an affiliate of Sanford Rose Associates, who told Rigzone “it is a tool, just like email or a phone”.

“AI will help make some jobs easier, some work easier, etc. but it cannot accomplish the true engineering tasks needed across the world,” May said.

“There are too many variables and we will always need engineers and technically competent people to execute on the work and knowhow to fix a problem. AI is just a tool to make everyone else’s lives a bit easier,” he added.

Gladney B. Darroh, the founder and president of Houston based Piper-Morgan Search, said the “vibe” he’s getting around the industry is that most professionals “are excited about AI’s possibilities”.

“They really believe it has strong potential to enhance the oil and gas industry’s efforts to become more environmentally friendly in its existing businesses, and longer term its ability to pivot from fossil fuels to green energy because of AI’s creativity and efficiencies,” he told Rigzone.

“In the end oil and gas professionals are just as human as professionals in any other industry when a major unknown, like AI, is introduced - some will fear it; others will embrace it,” he added.

“Most professionals are positive about AI and believe new technologies, new companies, and new jobs will be created as a result of this quantum leap in technology. Personally, I agree with them,” Darroh continued.

Continuous Concern

Neil Bradshaw, Petroplan’s EMEA Head of Permanent Recruitment, told Rigzone that “workers experience continuous concern regarding AI”, adding that “it is common knowledge that technological evolution since the 1980s has displaced workers faster than it has created jobs”.

“However, workers can take comfort by the fact that there are few oil and gas companies who have been able to implement technologies at the scale required, and recent research has shown that 70 percent of digitization projects have not run past pilot phase,” Bradshaw said.

“The technologies do not always generate clear value, and if management are unable to see improvements, they are reluctant to commit to wide deployment. In addition, new technologies require new skills development, and changing long standing work practices, which requires people,” he added.

“Subsequently value emerges as a combination of the technology and the people who manage it,” Bradshaw continued.

AI Should be Embraced

Speaking to Rigzone, Brian Binke, the CEO of the Birmingham Group, another affiliate of Sanford Rose Associates, said AI “should be embraced by not only oil and gas professionals, but most work professionals because it can help optimize workflow, improve worker safety, and predict problems and issues in advance”.

“I think people’s biggest misconceptions about AI is that it’s going to replace humans but that’s not the case at all - AI is being used to get rid of the mundane day-to-day tasks so employees can focus on other parts of their job,” Binke told Rigzone.  

“I do not believe that AI is that it’s going to replace humans in the oil and gas industry for a long, long time,” he added.

Binke highlighted that he’s seeing clients investing in technology that can analyze things like local conditions underground and the weather, which he noted requires continuous monitoring to ensure reliable and safe operations.

“AI is also being used in the oil and gas industry to inspect pipelines using drones equipped with thermal imaging, which helps in detecting any leaks,” he said.

“There are also technologies that help predict any risks and run scenario plans for wellhead monitoring,” Binke added.