DOE SMART Visualization Platform 1.5M Prize Challenge - KDnuggets

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) will award up to $1.5 million to winning innovators in a prize challenge to support FE's SMART (Science-informed Machine Learning to Accelerate Real Time Decisions in the Subsurface) initiative. Click here to watch a short video about the SMART Visualization Platform Prize Challenge and learn how to register to take part in this unique software development contest. SMART leverages the expertise of seven national laboratories, as well as industry partners, universities, unconventional field laboratories and carbon storage regional initiatives to realize breakthroughs in understanding the subsurface environment through machine learning. A thorough understanding of the subsurface is necessary to reduce risks and increase the efficiency of enhanced and unconventional oil and natural gas recovery, geothermal energy technologies, geological carbon storage and other operations. Currently, approaches to analyze subsurface data are extremely rigorous, require expert training and are time-consuming and costly.