TGS Salt Identification Challenge Segment salt deposits beneath the Earth's surface

Several areas of Earth with large accumulations of oil and gas also have huge deposits of salt below the surface.

But unfortunately, knowing where large salt deposits are precisely is very difficult. Professional seismic imaging still requires expert human interpretation of salt bodies. This leads to very subjective, highly variable renderings. More alarmingly, it leads to potentially dangerous situations for oil and gas company drillers.

To create the most accurate seismic images and 3D renderings, TGS (the world’s leading geoscience data company) is hoping Kaggle’s machine learning community will be able to build an algorithm that automatically and accurately identifies if a subsurface target is salt or not.

• 1st Place - $ 50,000

• 2nd Place - $25,000

• 3rd Place - $ 15,000

• 4th Place - $ 10,000

• October 12, 2018 - Entry deadline. You must accept the competition rules before this date in order to compete.

• October 12, 2018 - Team Merger deadline. This is the last day participants may join or merge teams.

• October 19, 2018 - Final submission deadline.

All deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC on the corresponding day unless otherwise noted. The competition organizers reserve the right to update the contest timeline if they deem it necessary.