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Neuralog at IMAGE 2026: 35 Years of AI Before AI Was Cool

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At IMAGE 2026, AAPG’s Sean Kimiagar stopped by the Neuralog booth to talk with Neuralog President and CTO Ken Land and Sales Account Manager Katherine Burton. The short interview covered a lot of ground: where Neuralog fits in the industry, how the company has kept pace for 35 years, and why a company named for neural networks has been doing AI since long before the term was everywhere.

Neuralog’s interview with AAPG at IMAGE 2026. Video courtesy of AAPG.

Here are the highlights.

The well log you opened today probably went through Neuralog

Most people walking the IMAGE floor already know Neuralog or have its tools somewhere in their company. For anyone who doesn’t, Ken had one thing he wanted them to know: when you pull up a well log online, as a raster image or as digital curves, there’s a very good chance it was scanned on a NeuraScanner and digitized with NeuraLog software.

That’s the quiet role Neuralog has played for decades: making sure legacy paper logs become data that geologists and engineers can trust.

35 years of evolving, not changing

Neuralog is celebrating 35 years of serving the oil and gas industry. Ken says the company hasn’t so much changed as evolved: keeping its technology current and remaining the company customers can count on when they need help.

That promise is practical. If a scanner, printer or software setup is giving you trouble, or you’re planning a new digitizing project, Neuralog can provide the equipment, software and training to get it done. Exploration carries plenty of risk already. Neuralog’s job is to take as much of that risk as possible out of data capture by delivering accurate results every time.

NeuraScanner 3

The clearest example of that evolution is the scanner itself. NeuraScanner is now in its third generation. NeuraScanner 3, released in September 2026, improves on a scanner that was already considered the industry standard, with:

  • Better imaging
  • Improved paper handling
  • Faster processing

The software side has kept moving too. NeuraLog has been refined for 35 years, and recent AI work has taken automated digitizing further than ever. NeuraLog 2026 uses AI to read log headers, separate curves from grid lines and background, and score each log’s quality, so teams spend less time tracing by hand and more time working with the data.

AI before AI was cool

Today every company has an AI story. Neuralog’s starts with its name: “neural” as in neural networks, the AI of the early 1990s.

In those days, customers were wary of untested technology running their software, so Neuralog didn’t lead with it. But the company was one of the early AI companies in the energy industry. The original plan was to analyze well logs with neural networks. To do that, the team first needed the logs in digital form, and paying an outside service to digitize them was more than a young company could afford.

So they tried something else: train the neural networks to trace the logs themselves. It worked, and it worked so well that customers were far more excited about automated digitizing than about the analysis the company was founded to do. Neuralog never looked back, and well log digitizing is still its flagship product.

Built for customers everywhere

IMAGE is the International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy, and Neuralog’s customer base is just as international. Ken credits that reach to focus: doing one thing very well, everywhere.

  • You’re probably not starting from scratch. Neuralog equipment and software are already in use around the world, so teams often have experience in-house.
  • Training for your project. Neuralog can customize training built around your workflow to fit the way your team works and the systems you already use anywhere in the world.
  • Engineers who fix problems. After 35 years, problems are rare. When they do come up, Neuralog’s engineers are there to solve them.

That approach has kept Neuralog going for 35 years, and Ken was clear that it isn’t going to change.

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Thanks to AAPG for the conversation, and to everyone who stopped by the booth at IMAGE 2026. If you missed us, see where we’ll be next on our trade show schedule, or contact us to talk about your next scanning or digitizing project.