GeoMind: Exploration Intelligence System

Turn Decades of Proprietary Basin Knowledge into Instant, Citable Insight. GeoMind is a secure, domain-specific GenAI assistant, powered by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), that transforms how subsurface teams access and utilize your company’s exploration data.

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The Exploration Knowledge Gap

Capital-intensive exploration decisions rely on synthesized insights, but decades of crucial subsurface knowledge remain **fragmented, unstructured, and hidden** within massive volumes of reports and files. Geoscientists are spending too much time searching—not interpreting.

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Massive Data Volume

Thousands of End-of-Well Reports, Basin Studies, and interpretation notes scattered across SharePoints, folders, and legacy systems. True insights are buried in unstructured text.

Slow Time-to-Insight

Weeks of manual document review are required to build a comprehensive prospect review or familiarize a new team member with a basin—time that should be spent on complex interpretation and risk modeling.

Strategic Knowledge Risk

The retirement of senior experts and poor knowledge reuse lead to repeating past mistakes, misjudging reservoir risk, and the potential for costly dry or sub-economic wells.

For every major drilling decision, teams must synthesize insights from **thousands of pages** of proprietary data. GeoMind reduces this search and synthesis time from **weeks to minutes**.

GeoMind: The Secure, Domain-Specific Solution

GeoMind is your **Co-Pilot for Subsurface Discovery**, designed to preserve, connect, and instantly query your most valuable asset: proprietary exploration knowledge.

Ask Any Geological Question, Instantly

Query decades of internal reports using natural language (e.g., "What were the primary charge risks identified in the Eastern Graben play?"). Get concise answers grounded in your data.

Summarize Basin History & Plays

Generate a first-draft summary of key tectonic, stratigraphic, and petroleum system events for any basin in your portfolio. Perfect for rapid familiarization or decision-document preparation.

Learn from Every Well Outcome

Synthesize drill outcomes, detailed reservoir quality trends, and unexpected geological/operational risk factors from historical well reports, connecting success and failure to current prospect decisions.

Draft Work Programs & Memos

Generate high-quality first drafts of technical notes, decision support memos, and slides for management reviews, dramatically accelerating the documentation workflow.

Accelerate Onboarding & Mobility

Junior staff and cross-asset transfers can rapidly achieve expert-level basin familiarity by querying the collective knowledge base, significantly reducing the learning curve.

**Crucial: Answers with Citations**

Every answer is paired with **direct, auditable citations** and links back to the original source document (report page, seismic summary, well file), ensuring **trust and verifiability**.

How GeoMind Works: RAG Architecture & Secure Workflow

GeoMind is powered by **Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)**—a robust, enterprise-grade architecture that grounds the Generative AI model strictly in your proprietary data, controlling quality and ensuring security.

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Technical Pillars: Enterprise-Grade RAG

1. Data Ingestion & Enrichment: Proprietary documents (PDFs, DOCX, TXT) are ingested, cleaned via OCR, chunked, and tagged with metadata (Well ID, Basin, Formation, Date).
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2. Vector Database / Knowledge Store: Document chunks are converted into numerical vectors and securely stored, enabling fast, semantic similarity search.
3. Private LLM Layer: A secure, private, enterprise-grade Large Language Model is hosted in your private cloud environment (VPC).
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4. Application Layer: Secure Web UI, APIs, and Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC) ensure the right teams see the right data.

The User Workflow: Insight in 5 Steps

  1. User Asks: Geoscientist submits a complex, natural-language query (e.g., "What is the typical fault seal capacity in the Miocene reservoir of Block A?").
  2. Retrieval: The RAG system instantly searches the Vector Store, retrieving the top 3-5 most semantically relevant document chunks/reports from your internal corpus.
  3. Generation & Grounding: The Private LLM receives the user's query *and* the retrieved source text. It is instructed to compose a concise answer **only** using the provided context.
  4. Citations & Output: The system displays the synthesized answer, along with direct citations and links to the source reports, ensuring auditability and trust.
  5. Refine & Export: The user refines the query, saves the output, or exports it directly into a decision memo or presentation slide.

Strategic Alignment: For Exploration, Data, and Tech Leaders

GeoMind is a critical enabler, aligning subsurface needs with strategic digital transformation goals.

For Exploration Managers

  • Faster Decision Cycles: Reduce weeks of manual synthesis to minutes, accelerating the prospect-to-drill timeline.
  • Risk Mitigation: Ensure all analogues, historical well outcomes, and known risks are considered before high-stakes capital commitment.
  • Knowledge Preservation: Capture and operationalize the experience of senior experts as they retire.

For Geoscientists & Reservoir Engineers

  • Focus on Interpretation: Spend less time searching and synthesizing, and more time on complex data analysis and geological modeling.
  • Cross-Disciplinary Insight: Instantly access well summary data, petrophysical notes, and seismic interpretations that were previously siloed.
  • Auditable Answers: Trust the results because every insight is backed by a direct link to a company source document.

For Data & IT Teams

  • Leverage Existing Data: Integrates with your existing Data Lake, Document Repositories, and company Cloud/VPC infrastructure.
  • Security & Governance: Runs in a private, secured environment with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and full audit logs on all queries.
  • Scalable Architecture: Built on robust RAG patterns that scale with your exploration portfolio and future data volumes.

Tangible Business Impact & Financial Viability

Exploration is a high-leverage business. Improving the quality of a single high-stakes decision has an outsized return. GeoMind drives value through risk reduction and massive productivity gains.

A single avoided dry well or misjudged appraisal decision can represent **tens to hundreds of millions of dollars** saved. GeoMind's cost is negligible compared to this leverage.

Time-to-Insight Comparison

Dimension Before GenAI (Manual Review) With GeoMind (RAG Assistant)
Time to prepare a Basin Brief for new staff 4–6 Weeks 1–3 Days
Time to prepare Well Decision Note (Source Review) 1–2 Weeks 30–60 Minutes
Number of sources checked per decision Limited by human capacity (5–10) Full Corpus Search (Hundreds)
Risk of Repeating Past Mistakes Medium/High (Knowledge gaps) Low (Comprehensive knowledge reuse)

Pilot Program: Start Small, Prove Value, Scale Fast

The most effective path to enterprise adoption is a focused, measured Minimum Viable Product (MVP) pilot within one targeted area of high knowledge density and pain point.

Phase 1: Focused Pilot (Weeks 1–8)

Target: We recommend starting with **one high-priority basin** (e.g., "Northwest Deepwater Basin") or a key play where historical knowledge is most fragmented.

Success Metrics (KPIs)

Trust and Control: Benefits vs. Risks & Mitigation

Core Benefits (Why We Win)

  • Faster Decisions: Rapid access to decades of synthesized knowledge.
  • Risk Reduction: All historical analogues are considered before capital commitment.
  • Knowledge Continuity: Systematically preserves subsurface expertise.
  • Enhanced Collaboration: Single source of truth across disciplines and geographies.

Constraints & Mitigations (How We Control)

  • Hallucinations & Inaccuracy: Mitigation: Strict RAG policy. LLM is forced to use retrieved documents. Answers include **direct citations**. Human expert validation is mandatory.
  • Data Security & Confidentiality: Mitigation: System runs in a **private, secured company cloud/VPC**. Zero data leaves the enterprise environment. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and full audit logs are implemented.
  • Data Quality & Coverage Gaps: Mitigation: Requires upfront, iterative curation of the corpus. The system will explicitly say, "**Information not found in current knowledge base**," avoiding speculation.
  • Change Management & Trust: Mitigation: Positioned as a **Co-Pilot**, not a replacement. Success depends on building trust through transparent citations and focused training.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does GeoMind replace our geoscientists or reservoir engineers?
No. GeoMind is a knowledge **co-pilot** designed to remove the time-consuming tasks of searching and synthesizing unstructured data. It frees up expert geoscientists to focus on complex interpretation, modeling, and validating the final exploration decisions.
What data do we need to start the pilot?
We start with your **unstructured proprietary documents** for a single asset: End-of-Well Reports, internal basin studies, key prospect review slides, and seismic interpretation summaries. Structured data (well headers, metadata) is used for tagging and contextual retrieval.
How do you handle proprietary and partner data confidentiality?
The system runs entirely within your company's secured network (private cloud/VPC). **Data is never exposed to external models.** Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) ensures users can only query and retrieve insights from documents they are already authorized to see, enforced at the application layer.
Can GeoMind integrate with our existing data lake and petrotechnical tools?
Yes. The RAG architecture is designed to leverage existing infrastructure. Data ingestion processes can pull from common data lake storage (e.g., S3/ADLS) and petrotechnical document repositories. Future APIs can allow for seamless export into interpretation software.
Can we run this fully on-premise or in a private cloud?
Yes, absolutely. For maximum security and compliance, GeoMind's architecture (Vector Store and Private LLM) is designed for deployment within your company’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) or even on-premise environments, ensuring complete data residency control.
What happens when the system doesn't have the answer?
The system is strictly instructed to say, **“Information not found in current knowledge base.”** It will not speculate or hallucinate. This policy is a core control mechanism for maintaining trust and accuracy in high-stakes exploration decisions.

Ready to Transform Exploration Intelligence?

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