Stanley Rich Wharton is Principal Consultant for Subsurface Imaging Company Limited (2006), which provides innovative technology solutions for oil and gas exploration, mining and geotechnics. Digitalization services include Subsurface Modeling, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and IoT. He has 39 years’ pioneering experience in the oil and gas industry - 12 years as Consultant, Exploration Resources Assessment Department, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia, which manages the country’s abundant resources; 12 years with bp Trinidad and Tobago as Lead Exploration Geoscientist, and Technical Lead. Internationally, he was awarded the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Service Award in 2021 for “Outstanding contribution to the AAPG and other societies as well as for his innovative and successful approach to exploration”.