Reservoir model kept failing — the culprit turned out to be a sunken fishing boat in the Lidar data
oilmutt · x · 2026-11-12
A geophysics modeler shared a debugging war story: a sand model for reservoir prediction from seismic data performed miserably. After investigating what was throwing it off, they found the culprit in the Lidar data — a fishing boat sitting on the seafloor. A vivid reminder that data inspection often beats model tuning.
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