conference · Past
EAGE Digital 2026 — Stavanger
EAGE's dedicated digitalisation conference — geoscientists, engineers, and data scientists working with new digital technologies for subsurface. Stavanger leans heavily into Norwegian shelf operator + supplier ecosystem.
Date
Location
Clarion Hotel Energy, Stavanger, Norway
EarthScan
Tarry Singh, Tannistha Maiti
EAGE Digital 2026 ran 9-12 March in Stavanger, Norway — the spiritual home of digital-first North Sea operations. The conference brings together the multi-disciplinary geoscience + engineering + data-science crowd around shared problems: foundation models for seismic, MLOps for production deployment, data-platform architecture for subsurface organisations.
Why Stavanger
Equinor is headquartered there, and their digitalisation investments shape the technical conversation in Norway. The 2026 edition reflected that — heavy Equinor presence, plus Aker BP, Shell Norway, ConocoPhillips Norge.
What EarthScan presented
Tarry + Tannistha Maiti participated in the technical committee
- presented:
- EAN-DDA progression since IEEE TGRS 2022 — the operator fine-tuning extension first shown at SPE ATCE 2025
- VeerNet's evolution toward foundation-model territory — pretraining on multi-basin raster archives, then per-operator fine-tuning
Headline themes
- Multi-modal foundation models for subsurface as the next frontier — sessions from Aker BP, KAUST, Stanford
- Data-platform standardisation — open-source vs. proprietary data lakes, OSDU adoption status
- Real-time interpretation — agentic AI workflows that integrate seismic + log + production data in production loops
What we took home
- Equinor's Sprint programme is the operator-side gold standard for AI integration. Worth studying for any operator ramping their MLOps maturity.
- The Norwegian operator ecosystem is years ahead of the rest of the North Sea on data-platform readiness. EarthScan pipeline integrations are easier here than anywhere else in Europe.
EAGE Digital is biennial. Next: 2028.
