TEN GRAND CHALLENGES
1Revitalising Exploration
Use digital technology to unlock 50 years of knowledge and existing data to revitalize exploration activity to deliver new discoveries while infrastructure and knowledge are available.
2Seeing clearly under the seabed
See with extreme clarity under the seabed at lower cost to identify new resource targets in real time.
3Unlocking new developments
Attract significant capital investment to develop new reserves in key asset classes through technology transformation of subsurface, facilities and operations design.
4Maximising sub-surface recovery
Approach the technical limit on reservoir recovery factor through innovation in waterflood surveillance, tight gas stimulation and enhanced oil recovery.
5Asset integrity inspections
Transform inspection technology to eliminate loss of containment, and reduce manned inspection by robotic, augmented and autonomous technology.
6Clean offshore energy
Eliminate atmospheric emissions and increase energy efficiency in existing and new fields by developing and applying transformational technology.
7Efficient offshore operations
Transform the efficiency and safety of operations, logistics, supply chain and decommissioning, adapting technology and digital to a hazardous offshore environment.
8Efficient onshore operations
Accelerate adoption of digital technology from other industries to transform the productivity of contracting, financial and warehousing systems.
9Lower decommissioning costs
Low cost, environmentally friendly decommissioning and re-use of facilities.
10Deployment at scale
Enable field trials and basin-wide deployment of key technologies to impact MER UK on a basin scale, linking companies, innovation entities and communities of practice.
