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Best Scientific Paper at NIK 2019 Conference

David Cameron — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 21:03:47 +0000

SIRIUS researchers won the Best Scientific Paper award at the annual NIK Conference in Narvik on 26th November 2019 The paper that won the award was called “Geological Multi-Scenario Reasoning” and was authored by Crystal Chang Din, Leif Harald Karlsen, Irina Pene, Oliver Stahl, Ingrid Chieh Yu and Thomas Østerlie.

This paper describes computer science aspects of the work in SIRIUS’ Geological Assistant beacon project. The authors come from three different research programs: Ontology Engineering, Analysis of Complex Systems and Industrial Digital Transformation. Irina Pene is a geoscientist. The work described is truly interdisciplinary and shows how SIRIUS brings together diverse skill sets to build good research with an industrial application.

Crystal Chang Din receives the prize on behalf of the team

The geological assistant project is being done in collaboration with Schlumberger and Equinor. A prototype version of the tool developed by the team was presented at Schlumberger’s annual customer conference in Monaco in September.

You can read the paper at https://ojs.bibsys.no/index.php/NIK/article/view/640

The Norwegian Informatics Conference (NIK) has been an annual event since 1988. The 32nd edition
of NIK was organised by UIT Norway’s Arctic University, Department of Computer Technology and
computational engineering. The conference took place at the Quality Hotel Grand Royal Narvik,
as part of the Norwegian ICT conference for Research and Education.

NIK is a broad national conference for dissemination of research and advanced development work
in computer science. The conference invites the submission of articles in different genres and
topics related to theoretical and applied informatics. NIK opens up for interdisciplinarity and diversity in
relationship to methodological approaches and areas of application.

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SIRIUS Joins the Open Subsurface Data Universe

David Cameron — Fri, 10 May 2019 16:37:52 +0000

SIRIUS, on behalf of the University of Oslo, has joined the Open Group’s Open Subsurface Data Universe forum. This consortium of oil companies, vendors and academics has the aim of building an open, standard data platform – initially for the oil and gas industry – that will bring together exploration, development, and wells data.

Equinor is a founding member of the forum. We also see that the mandate of the forum fits perfectly with SIRIUS’ mandate: opening up and providing scalable data access to subsurface data. Our ambition is to bring the experience from the Optique project and our Subsurface Data Access & Analytics beacon projects into the forum and use forum results in building our laboratories and demonstrators,

You can read more about the OSDU forum from the following press release. For more information about our participation, contact Adnan Latif or David Cameron.

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Presentation of Optique platform at upcoming AAPG Conference in London in October 2017

David Cameron — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:40:49 +0000

SIRIUS workers will be presenting at a Special Session on on the Future of Oil and Gas E&P Technology at the AAPG/SEG International Exhibition and Conference in London on Wednesday 18th October 2017. Our paper is entitled “Practical Knowledge Representation for Data Access to Subsurface Data: The Achievements and Potential of Optique Platform” and describes the potential for the Optique platform to change the way we interact with subsurface data and databases.

The full programme for the session is as follows:

Keynote: How New Technologies are Changing the Oil and Gas Industry: John Peak, VP Subsurface Technical Centre, Upstream Technology, BP
Practical Knowledge Representation for Data Access to Subsurface Data: The Achievements and Potential of Optique Platform: David Cameron, Executive Manager, SIRIUS Centre, University of Oslo
The Virtuous Circle of Information Management in an Industry Focused on Efficiency: Glenn Mansfield, Director, Flare Solutions
Cognitive Computing in Oil & Gas: How AI Technologies Will Change the Way we Work: Ulisses Mello, Director, IBM Research Brazil
Probabilistic Seismic Reservoir Characterization: Patrick Connolly, Independent Consultant
Interactive Processing and Interpretation of Huge Pre-Stack Datasets Using In-Memory Supercomputers: Bill Shea, Chief Executive Officer, Sharp Reflections
Machine Learning and Property Modelling: Colin Daly, Advisor Reservoir Modelling, Schlumberger
Deep Learning in Integrated Geophysical and Geological Reservoir Models Using Structured and Unstructured Data: Kamal Hami-Eddine, Director of Data Science, Deep Learning, Paradigm
The Growing Role of Unmanned Vehicles and Robotics in the Oil Industry: Hisham Saadawi, SPE Technical Director Production & Facilities, Ringstone Petroleum
SAFARI – A Database of Virtual Outcrops and Reservoir Analogs: Prof. John Howell, Chair in Geology & Petroleum Geology, Aberdeen University

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