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The Ministry of Oil launches the Digital Transformation Award in its second session

03-09-2022

4 categories for the award to include the largest number of students, graduates and workers in local and regional oil companies The Ministry of Oil announced the launch of the Digital Transformation Award (Hackathon (2022) in its second session, which aims to create an advanced digital oil program that will be used to implement and monitor all oil operations through artificial intelligence, which helps stimulate and enrich the environment of innovation and digital entrepreneurship and create an added value for the Kuwaiti oil sector . The Ministry of Oil said in a press statement that the Technical Affairs Program and the Public Relations Department of the Ministry are responsible for the award, in cooperation with the technical and technological sector in the Ministry of Oil. Kuwait, the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, the Kuwait Oil Company, Schlumberger Kuwait, the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, the Kuwait Gulf Oil Company, the Kuwait National Petroleum Company, the Australian University of Kuwait (ACK), the American University of the Middle East (AUM and the American University in Kuwait (AUK). The "oil" stated that the registration for the award was opened during the period from July 24 to October 9, 2022, with the start of the launch, participation and workshops from October 13 to November 24, and the announcement of the winners and final results on December 20, noting that the mechanism followed Registration will be via the website of the Ministry of Oil. The Ministry of Oil stated that it was agreed to define 4 categories as follows: the first category, which includes female students and students from universities and relevant governmental and private specialized institutes, the second category, which includes a group of technical specializations in Kuwaiti oil companies, new graduates and experienced graduates with experience of 5 years or less, and the category The third is for the Ministry of Oil, and finally the fourth category includes regional foreign participations that are invited to participate. Team The Ministry of Oil said that it was agreed on the existence of an organizing committee to follow up the work of following up the progress of the award’s operations, preparation and coordination, supervising the media plan, following up on the website, preparing invitations and official books and the mechanism of official correspondence through the Ministry of Oil and sending them to all participating parties, inaugurating the registration page for the award on the Ministry of Oil website and the process Rating for posts. She stated that the award work team, headed by the Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil for Technical Affairs Eng. Khaled Walid Al-Din, and the Director of Public Relations and Media in the Ministry of Oil Sheikha Tamader Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, made field visits to the participating parties to review the award, where they visited Kuwait University (Faculty of Engineering and Petroleum). The team was received by the Dean of the College of Engineering and Petroleum, Prof. Dr. Ayed Suleiman, and the College’s representative in the award, Dr. Mabkhout Al-Dosari. The committee also visited the Kuwait National Petroleum Company. They were received by the Executive Vice President for Support Services Abdulaziz Ahmed Al-Duaij and Director of Public Relations and Media in the company, Kholoud Al-Mutairi. And Director of Information Technology in the company, Naji Al-Marri.