An application of data mining and knowledge discovery process in the field of natural gas exploration

Abstract

Natural gas exploration has been shifting significantly in the last decades with the progression of new ingenious technologies. However, such technologies generates large amount of data sets and handling of them create problems such as interpretation of data. To solve such problems Data Mining techniques could be used. This work includes the application procedure of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery to Natural Gas Well Log data using a set of algorithms and a decent Data Mining tool. And the success of each algorithm in terms of the amount of useful rules is compared.