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Paramaribo, Suriname
17-20 June 2025

Staatsolie - SEOGS

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HACKATON 2025

 

 

 

An opportunity for students and young professionals in the oil & gas market to get familiar with the most commonly used tools in the industry and gain experience in programming and communication skills

Halliburton, SPE and the AAPG Suriname Student Chapter invite undergraduate and postgraduate students, and young professionals with less than 2 years of experience in the oil & gas industry to participate at this year's Hackaton, an event designed to provide a different approach of training & learning for all participating teams, equipping them with real-world knowledge of interpretation practices and the opportunity to gain E&P industry insights & trends, fostering interaction with oil & gas companies and leaders.

The Challenge:

Develop machine learning and artificial intelligence workflow to further enhance conventional geoscience exploration workflow using the landmark research & development platform DS 365.ai

Entry Requirements:

  • The number of members for each team is limited to 3 to 5 people. Each person can only participate in one team.
  • At least one member of the team must have programming skills
  • At least one member of the team must have an oil and gas background (e.g. petroleum geology or engineering)

Registration Process

Teams need to submit an abstract before May 5th 2025 to salwa.mohdnor@halliburton.com on one of the available challenges from the list below:

1. Seismic resolution improvement
2. Well logs lithology prediction
3. Seismic well tie automation
4. Well kick prediction
5. Seismic attribute improvement
6. Automated mud loss detection

Abstract Requirements

  • Must be in English

  • The registration document needs to be between one - three full pages length, paper A4. Longer or shorter sized will not be included in the review process.

  • The registration must concentrate in itself the essential information of the project:

    • Background / Introduction of challenge topic chosen

    • References (if any)

    • Name of the team and team members, email addresses of members (must be university email addresses)

Important Dates

Registration Opens: March 24th 2025

Registration Closes: May 5th 2025

Teams Selection / Participants Finalization: May 6th 2025

Preliminary Round (if needed): June 13th 2025

Final Round: June 20th 2025, at SEOGS 2025

Winner Announcement: June 20th 2025, at SEOGS 2025

Competition Format

  • Participants will be guided on how to use DS365.ai

  • Participants will be given 1 month to create the solutions

  • The preliminary round will be judged by Halliburton judges

  • The final round will be presented at SEOGS 2025 on June 20th, and will be judged by industry experts

  • Each team will have 10 minutes maximum to do their final presentations

  • The organizing committee will award prizes for the first, second and third place winners

  • Outstanding contestants will be granted with Halliburton Landmark TV access to E-Learning courses