The Exploration Innovation Prize is awarded to a license group, company, or team who during the last few years have given a courageous and innovative technological contribution in exploration for oil and gas on the Norwegian continental shelf.
The recipient has matured an exploration technology with high potential leading to increased G&G knowledge or future commercial oil & gas discoveries.
Five candidates have been nominated for the award. We invite all of our readers to vote for your favourite exploration technology project to make sure that the worthiest projects end up in the finale.
The nominees and why they are nominated:
Empowering in-house machine learning models for exploration – Aker BP
Machine Learning Assisted Real-Time Fluid Identification – Equinor
From pathology to geosciences: The evolution of Avatara-p – NPD
The Utsira OBN Survey – TGS & AGS (Carbon Transition)
Wide-Tow Multi-Source – PGS
On May 24th – in less than three weeks – the three candidates with the most votes will present their projects at the NCS Exploration – Recent Advances in Exploration Technology conference in Oslo (Fornebu).
The jury will select and announce the winner during the conference dinner based on the candidates’ presentations and the prize criteria.
The voting period was 8. – 10. May.