1,395 projects

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Sustainable Medium-Depth Geothermal Solutions with Solid Media Thermal Energy Storage for H/C

GeoSUSTAIN aims to develop an efficient, zero-emission, and flexible geothermal-based solution for industrial heating and cooling (H/C). The project combines Medium-Depth Borehole Heat Exchangers (MDBHEs) down to 650m depth, Solid Media Thermal Energy Storage (SMTES) for high temperature heat sto...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Development of Just-Add-Water Geopolymers for Well Cementing Applications

Cement is essential for well construction, and even more when plugging wells permanently. Today, Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) is the industry standard—but it comes at a high environmental cost and faces some durability issues in demanding underground conditions. SafeRock2.0 is exploring a cl...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Rogaland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Towards improved imaging and detection using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) in marine environments

Fibre-optic submarine cables are the backbone of the modern global communication system and allows massive, low cost, communication across the continents. Phone conversations, images, movies, documents, or other data types, are transmitted digitally thousands of km with the speed of light using l...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Akustisk sjokkbølge teknologi for in-situ spenningsmåling i 8 ½ brønn seksjon

It is important to have a good understanding of the rock formations and its characteristics to maintain well integrity during drilling operations. Such understanding is also important for other operations, such as permanent plugging and abandonment of wells. It may also be important to enable hig...

Awarded: NOK 18.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Green water - phenomena, loads and response

The ambition of the Green Water IPN is to increase the safety of floating offshore units prone to green water events. Large waves overtopping the bow or deck of offshore units may represent a threat to the safety of personnel, to structural integrity and to the environment. Experience from the No...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Downhole Centric Reciprocating Pump (dCRP)

Traditional artificial lift methods in the oil and gas industry, such as electric submersible pumps and gas lift systems, face significant challenges in mature fields with increasing gas and water content in the wellstream. To address these challenges, we are developing the new downhole Centric R...

Awarded: NOK 19.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Agder

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Tracer-gas verification of P&A barriers

Thousands of oil and gas wells are permanently plugged each year. The Norwegian Continental Shelf will need to plug approximately 3,000 wells in the coming decades. Globally, it is estimated that between a quarter and a third of these plugged wells leak. A challenge for the industry is the lack o...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Towards Autonomous Coiled Tubing Operations

Norway has several thousand offshore wells that need to be maintained and eventually plugged in the coming years. New wells are being drilled for oil and gas production and other purposes, such as CO2 storage and geothermal energy extraction. Future maintenance and plugging of wells represent a s...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Developing a control system for a fully automated CML system using a physical base model, AI & Digital Twin technologies in real-time

The project proposal presents an innovative control system for fully automated Controlled Mud Level (CML) operations, merging a physical base model with AI and Digital Twin technologies to facilitate real-time decision-making across various drilling phases, such as drilling, connection, and cemen...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

NORCE Tidligfase teknologioverføring 2025-2026

NORCE has a long tradition of successful commercialization of results from research. We have organized ourselves so that all research groups in NORCE can submit ideas for commercialization via our structured work processes for commercialization, patenting and licensing. To stimulate increased com...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Vestland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

eXRES Demo

The "eXRES Demo - IPN 2024" project marks a significant innovation in exploration drilling technology. CoreAll, in collaboration with Aker BP, is developing a new resistivity sensor that enables real-time logging of geological resistivity data during drilling and coring operations. The technology...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Rogaland

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Sustainable Transition for the Norwegian Infrastructure for Multiphase Flow

The Well Flow Loop (WFL) is an integral component of the Norwegian Infrastructure for Multiphase Flows (IMF) located at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) at Kjeller. Recognized as a world-leading laboratory facility, the WFL provides cutting-edge expertise and advanced scientific instrume...

Awarded: NOK 13.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2030

Location: Akershus

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Norwegian Infrastructure Platform for Foundation Technology Research in Offshore Wind

Norway and the European Union (EU) recognize offshore renewable energy as critical to achieve the ambitious goal of European climate neutrality by 2050. Harnessing wind energy is a key technology for meeting the energy and climate targets. This requires substantial investments in both bottom-fixe...

Awarded: NOK 63.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2034

Location: Oslo

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Testing the foundations of special core analysis

The project will use advanced mass spectrometric techniques to develop test protocols that can reduce uncertainty in data from special core analysis (SCAL). SCAL is a collective term for certain laboratory tests performed on petroleum reservoir rock (drilling cores) and fluids to determine import...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Cement Placement in Irregular Wellbores

In drilling industry, one of the most important operations performed as part of well construction is primary cementing. The quality of the annular cement barrier affects wellbore integrity. Poor cement quality can result in operational challenges and difficult remedial operations and can prevent ...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

LaRiMiT - Landslide Risk Mitigation Toolbox

Landslides pose a growing threat to people, infrastructure, and ecosystems, especially in hilly and mountainous regions. With climate change increasing the frequency and severity of these natural hazards and more communities expanding into vulnerable areas, the need for risk mitigation has never ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

gigaCCS - Norwegian Research Centre of Excellence for Carbon Capture and Storage test

The urgency to decarbonise the global economy to limit temperature increases to < 2°C is now. CO2 capture, transport, and storage (CCS) deployment at gigaton scale, which is widely recognised as being vital for a just and sustainable transition to net-zero emissions, can significantly reduce emis...

Awarded: NOK 180.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2032

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Inline measurement of PVT and thermophysical properties of drilling fluids

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Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Rogaland

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi, nanovitenskap, mikroteknologi og avanserte materialer

National Conference for Additive Manufacturing

NCAM2024 representerer en plattform for kunnskapsutveksling og samarbeid, nødvendig for å holde Norge i forkant av global utvikling innen additiv fabrikasjon. Gitt den eksponentielle veksten siden kommersialiseringen av 3D-printing, er dette feltet mer relevant enn noen gang, spesielt i nøkkelind...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Fishbones Drilling, Extended Reach Laterals

Fishbones' Multilateral Stimulation Technology for hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs is a well-established method in the global simulation market. Developed in cooperation with major E&P companies, Fishbones’ solutions for carbonate and sandstone/clastic reservoirs are both fields proven. The...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

LaserPIPE – Laser-based welding of pipelines for offshore industry

Traditional electric arc welding is the most common production method for joining steel and aluminum. Arc welding, however, has some limitations, including time and in some cases also quality. In a manufacturing company with many similar welding operations daily, both time and quality are importa...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

T-3000 - Thru-tubing, riggløs plugging av brønner med Bismuth Alloy (M3)

There are more than 2,500 wells on the Norwegian Continental Shelf that need to be permanently plugged in the coming years. The current method requires the use of drilling rigs, which leads to very high costs. The project aims to develop and demonstrate a new method for permanent well plugging – ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Phase 3: Pilot Testing of Flapump Hydraulic Downhole Oil Well Pump

In this phase of the development, a Flapump downhole oil well pump will be installed in an onshore well for long time testing with real well condtions on an oil field in Texas, USA. From earlier the well pump has been tested in a laboratory with realistic conditions, and it is an updated edition ...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Teknologi-plattform for deteksjon av giftige gasser

Toxic gases can be deadly even at very low concentrations, and over time, they can cause life-threatening diseases at even lower concentrations. It is therefore important to have good sensors that can detect these gases. Optronics, together with SINTEF, has developed two new and unique concepts ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Visually-augmented acoustic subsea navigation

The use of underwater vehicles is increasing fast. Their use covers a wide range of applications, including inspection of structures, seabed mapping, and environmental monitoring. Since GNSS/GPS does not work underwater, one fundamental issue in an underwater environment, is that navigation and c...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Videreutvikling av teknologi for bedre undergrunnsforståelse og innsamling av data for mer effektive boreoperasjoner

It is important to have a good understanding of the rock formations and its characteristics in order to maintain well integrity during drilling operations. Such understanding is also important for other operations, such as permanent plugging and abandonment of wells. QWave has developed a new t...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

At-the-Bit Piggyback Drilling Solution - an integrated while drilling solution for mud loss control.

Curing severe mud loss during drilling is a big challenge to the oil industry. Todays solutions are time consuming and costly. The At-the-Bit Mud Loss Control innovation include down hole technologies for on-demand and instant treatment of such losses. The key features of the new tool involve dow...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Tool to select optimal and more environmental friendly drilling fluid for drilling of exploration-, production-, P&A-, and geothermal wells

When drilling a well, the choice of drilling fluid is crucial for profitability, efficiency, and safety. Drilling fluid has several essential and central functions, including lubrication, stabilization, transport of drill cuttings, and cooling of the drill bit. The goal of our project is to devel...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Interactive analysis of OBN data

Ocean bottom node (OBN) surveys, which offer clear imaging advantages, are steadily supplementing (and sometimes replacing) surveys acquired with conventional streamers. This is driven by their ability to record a wider and richer azimuth of high-quality data over complex and challenging subsurfa...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Rogaland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Sharing and recycling shale mechanical data to enable gigaton CO2 storage

Storing CO2 underground is emerging as a promising solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this underground storage, shale rock plays a critical role; it acts as a protective cap that seals off the stored CO2, keeping it securely contained. But how can we trust this cap? To address this, ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo