The UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) announced that it has awarded new contracts through Government funding, to advance exploration activity on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).
As part of the UK’s £5 million granted to the OGA for exploration, the awards were made after a tendering process during the first quarter of 2018, enabling the projects to start as soon as possible. The projects are the following:
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1. A contract to fund the first year of a four-year UKCS Petroleum Systems Project, was awarded to a consortium comprising Lloyd’s Register (LR) and IGI Ltd, who will compile a database of geochemical data. This database will include sample information and analysis from the well sampling databases.
2. A contract was awarded to Ikon Science to evaluate the rock physics and seismic amplitude responses of the underexplored Jurassic and Triassic plays of the Central North Sea and East Shetland Basin areas.
In addition, OGA is collaborating with Agile Scientific to provide geo-computing training courses aimed at providing subsurface practitioners working on UK licences the opportunity to gain key data science skills. These courses will take place in Aberdeen and London during the third quarter of 2018.
Finally, OGA along with Agile Scientific will host two machine-learning boot camps and subsurface hackathons, in Aberdeen and London during November.