Devon Energy and HXMX will present joint research at IMAGE 2026 showing that an automated interpretation platform can pick formation tops as reliably as expert geoscientists across a large Williston Basin dataset. The study introduces Triangulated Cross-Validation (TCV), a method that checks each automated pick against every other well in a set and reports consistency in feet. The presentation is scheduled for August 19, 2026, at 8:00 a.m. in Room 372A of the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Authored by Drew Kreman and Kevin Pelton of Devon Energy and Alan Lindsey of HXMX, the study benchmarks HXMX’s automated formation-top picking against traditional manual correlation. The team calibrated the platform on a multi-well calibration set with interpreter-verified tops, then deployed it on an extensive multi-county test set. Automated picks matched expert picks with strong accuracy across most intervals. Across both large and tightly spaced study areas, key formations picked with sub-foot spreads from a single reference well. TCV gives geoscientists a direct, quantitative measure of uncertainty and defines the practical range over which a verified reference well can be trusted. Manual well-log correlation is accurate but slow and scales poorly across thousands of wells. The HXMX platform lets geoscientists calibrate the system on a small set of verified wells, then extend consistent picks across a basin while staying in the role of reviewer. Alan Lindsey, CEO of HX