Equinor Innovate is our dedicated channel to challenge-driven open innovation. We focus on connecting with institutions and companies large and small that can help us find solutions to concrete business challenges.
We’re looking for ideas and solutions to improve and expand our business along three main opportunity areas, and radical ideas and solutions are especially welcome. Our three focus areas are:
Competitive at all times
Transforming the oil and gas industry
Providing energy for a low carbon future
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Equinor is constantly looking for solutions to our business challenges and we recognize our need to collaborate with innovative people and organizations around the world. Challenges will be posted here when they are announced. For previous challenges, see further down this page.
At regular intervals we post challenges that typically run as campaigns for periods of 6 to 12 weeks—and we invite you to submit proposals.
The challenges are connected to a real Equinor project organisation working alongside the challenge campaign. This challenge team includes professionals dedicated to reviewing and exploring potential next steps for working with solvers to develop and implement solutions that improve our operations.
Equinor has a policy to license out IPR where the industry depends on suppliers to commercialize products and services. We have selected some technologies which we would like to offer to potential suppliers.
The innovation challenge received 30 proposals from all over the world and the competition was tough. Out of these, we have chosen five proposals based on our criteria for the contest.
Offshore wind is an important part of Statoil’s plans for building a profitable new energy business. We are pleased to announce the winners of our innovation challenge on Heavy maintenance of offshore wind turbines.
Statoil and NFK (Norsk Korrosjonsteknisk Forening) announce the winner of the Corrosion Under Insulation challenge.
GE and Statoil today announced the four winners of their Open Innovation Challenge, designed to utilize crowd sourcing to find solutions that reduce fresh water in shale oil and gas production.
We are constantly looking for relevant solutions to our challenges, even after campaigns formally close. Review our previous campaigns and let us know if you are working on a technology or method that could be relevant to one of our challenges posted on Equinor Innovate. Submit your proposal indicating the name of the relevant challenge as part of your submission.
Equinor Technology Ventures (ETV) provides project based or equity funding combined with expert technical and financial guidance.
ETV has been established to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with exciting new technologies in oil and energy—and in turn us achieve our goal to be the world’s most carbon-efficient oil and gas producer with a significant renewable business.
Building on a proven venture track record, we will provide expert technical and financial guidance as well as project-based or venture capital funding. Equinor Technology Ventures, ETV, is looking for technologies in upstream oil and gas as well as in new energy.
