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AI meets the field: How Spotfire Copilot transforms upstream energy flows

September 17, 2025 by Michael O'Connell

Spotfire Copilot: A natural language extension to Spotfire

In the fast-evolving world of upstream energy, engineers and data scientists often find themselves at a crossroads. They’re buried under complex datasets, legacy tools, and time-consuming tasks. Yet, the pressure to deliver faster insights, reduce risk, and increase production never relents. Enter Spotfire Copilot™: a game-changing AI assistant purpose-built to meet the rigorous demands of energy professionals in the field and at the desk.

Spotfire Copilot is not another generic AI add-on. It’s a domain-smart, context-aware partner that understands upstream workflows, interprets specialized geological data formats, and speaks the language of energy. By putting AI at the fingertips of engineers, Spotfire is transforming how decisions are made across the lifecycle of a well, from exploration to production optimization.

Code-free insights for geoscientists and engineers

What if you could skip writing Python or R scripts and instead ask a simple question? With Spotfire Copilot, geoscientists can now describe what they want—“smooth this gamma ray log,” or “estimate shale volume using the Larionov method”—and receive accurate, context-ready code blocks in return. Copilot configures visualizations and data outputs so that even users without a programming background can act on complex analytics.

  • Natural language prompts yield ready-to-run statistical and geoscientific calculations
  • Instantaneous generation of shale volume estimates, porosity modeling, or lithology classification
  • Built-in understanding of energy-specific data structures like LAS files, log curves, and formation tops

Accelerating well log analysis from days to minutes

LAS file interpretation has long been a bottleneck. Engineers once had to manually wrangle large well logs, apply filtering techniques, and build track visualizations. Spotfire Copilot automates this sequence: from importing LAS files to creating multi-track visualizations, including resistivity, gamma ray, and porosity.

It’s like giving your team a full-time data wrangler and analyst, minus the extra headcount.

  • Import and visualize LAS files interactively in a few clicks
  • Auto-generate well log tracks with Copilot prompts
  • Enable rapid pay zone identification and reservoir targeting

Smart next steps: AI-driven analytical guidance

Spotfire Copilot doesn’t just wait for commands; it acts like a strategic advisor. After analyzing a well log or a daily drilling report, the Copilot can suggest new correlations, highlight anomalies, or recommend which visualization to create next. This built-in guidance dramatically shortens the distance from data to decision.

  • Suggested correlations between production data and geology
  • Interactive exploration of variables with recommended statistical models
  • Reduced time from hypothesis to insight

Turning unstructured documents into dashboards

Every day, engineers produce and review drilling reports filled with crucial metrics, but those PDFs are hard to analyze at scale. Spotfire Copilot changes that. Its AI agents can extract and normalize unstructured data, convert it into searchable formats, and even build live dashboards or graph databases behind the scenes.

But it goes beyond visualization; Copilot can auto-generate structured reports in seconds, dramatically reducing the time engineers spend creating summaries from scratch. Whether it’s a compliance summary, operational snapshot, or failure analysis, Copilot assembles key metrics, flags anomalies, and packages findings into presentation-ready formats, freeing up experts to focus on insights, not formatting.

This is a major step forward in automating compliance tracking, failure reporting, and operational summaries.

  • Semantic extraction of well parameters, failures, and oil-to-water ratios
  • Auto-built dashboards from freeform drilling logs
  • Enterprise-wide query access to field documentation

Secure, enterprise-ready, and vendor-flexible

Whether your organization works with OpenAI, AWS, Google, or Cohere, Spotfire Copilot adapts to your chosen language model and ensures data privacy. The platform offers governance and flexibility for cross-functional teams, whether it’s a seasoned Python developer or a field engineer new to data science.

  • Works with any LLM provider
  • Scoped securely to internal enterprise data
  • Deployable across IT, engineering, and field operations

Real-world results: smarter wells, faster workflows

Spotfire Copilot is already delivering measurable value in live deployments, streamlining workflows, surfacing insights faster, and empowering teams to act with confidence.

Liberty Energy, a leading oilfield services company, built its real-time operational platform, Atlas, on the Spotfire visual data science platform. The system ingests more than 50 billion data points across frac fleets, updating dashboards every one second. This architecture gives engineers and customers unprecedented visibility into live operations.

Now, Liberty is accelerating its innovation further by integrating Spotfire Copilot. Engineers and developers use Copilot’s natural language interface to speed up dashboard creation and automate complex data functions, cutting development time and improving productivity.

“We want to embrace AI to augment our internal Spotfire developers, aid our field personnel, and eventually help our end customers.” — Craig Haywood, Senior Architect, Liberty Energy

Learn how Liberty Energy is using Spotfire Copilot.

By combining real-time telemetry, customizable dashboards, and AI-powered assistance, Spotfire enables teams like Liberty’s to make smarter decisions, reduce risk, and adapt quickly in high-pressure environments.

Accelerated value from day one

  • Faster time to insight without requiring code
  • Empowered users—from engineers to analysts
  • Unlocked data buried in structured and unstructured formats such as logs, PDFs, and legacy systems
  • Elevated decision-making across exploration, drilling, and production

Spotfire® Copilot brings generative AI directly into the heart of upstream energy analytics, turning everyday workflows into high-impact insight engines.

See what Spotfire® Copilot can do for your team today.

Categories: Energy Tags: Generative AI, Spotfire Copilot

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