I hope that after reading the preceding sections of this chapter, you have already formulated the idea that a critical component in evaluating opportunities for drilling applications is lithology and lithofacies formation.

Our goal, in this project, is to use machine learning to interpret core data and identify lithofacies (that is, classify bodies of rock or rock types into mappable units of a designated stratigraphic unit) based upon its physical characteristics, composition, formation, or various other attributes, obtained in well logging data.