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Aker BP joins Visual Intelligence

The company's interest in Visual Intelligence is to utilize new developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to improve and automate interpretations of data, while providing the centre with data, problem formulations, and different forms of guidance.

Aker BP joins Visual Intelligence

The Norwegian oil exploration and development company Aker BP joined the Visual Intelligence (VI) consortium in Spring 2024.

Aker BP is engaged in exploration, field development and production of oil and gas on the Norwegian continental shelf. The company produces energy and provides raw materials to a wide range of products used in our daily lives.

Aker BP aims to change the oil and gas industry through different measures, such as by reducing emissions and creating new industries. The company is familiar with methodologies which VI has developed within the energy sector.

Senior Advanced Data Scientist Odd Kolbjørnsen is a principal investigator at Aker BP and deputy member of the VI board. He is excited for the future collaboration between the company and the other consortium partners.

Deputy member of the Visual Intelligence Board, Odd Kolbjørnsen. Photo: UiO.

- Visual Intelligence is a really exciting research centre with several competent partners. The research field continues to grow in a rapid pace and it is great to be a part of a collaborative environment which helps us in staying updated, says Kolbjørnsen.

Diverse sets of data

The company's interest in VI is to utilize new developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to improve and automate interpretations of data, while providing the centre with data, problem formulations, and different forms of guidance.

- Aker BP has a diverse set of data in 2D, 3D and 4D which can offer new and exciting challenges to our analyses. Our researchers also seek to supervise PhD students as a way of establishing a collaborative research environment.

As there is a limited amount of training data within the field, Aker BP is also interested in developing techniques which reduce this need, as well as methodologies which utilize context and dependencies to improve results.

- We believe such needs correspond well with research challenges addressed by Visual Intelligence, Kolbjørnsen adds.

- A heavy industry partner

Centre director Robert Jenssen welcomes Aker BP to the VI consortium and believes that the research centre is significantly strengthened by the addition of the company.

Centre director Robert Jenssen. Photo: David Jensen.

- Aker BP is a heavy industry partner, and we are glad that they have reached out to Visual Intelligence to find the competence they seek. With the company on board, our role as a leading AI centre will be further consolidated.

- I would like to thank my co-director Anne Solberg for her grand efforts in the process, and for her sustained communication with Aker BP on our behalf, Jenssen adds.

Learn more about Aker BP on their web page.

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