Scaling Geographic Analytics with Azure Databricks and Spark GraphX (Paul Bruffett)

Paul Bruffett is the architect responsible for Devon Energy’s big data and advanced analytics platform.

Devon Energy has a team who continuously monitors all of its active drilling rigs and teams of engineers and completions crews. This team ensures wells, which are drilled horizontally for up to two miles, stay in the proper formation; a target that can be mere tens of feet wide. As the industry’s activity picks up, this team is increasingly stretched thin. In order to make these experts more productive, Devon Energy has developed a solution that analyzes subsurface attributes and readings in order to predict the drill’s position. The sheer number of possible interpretations for this data and the ever increasing length of well bores means that only a scale-out compute platform can solve the problem.

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