393 projects

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PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Multiphase flow in downward-inclined pipelines

Pipeline networks on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) are highly complex, including downward sections, undulating risers, and other non-standard geometries. These complexities strongly affect flow regimes, phase transitions, liquid accumulation, and overall pipeline performance. Despite thei...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Next Level Measurement – Pilots

In oil and gas production, large separation tanks are used to separate produced stream into its constituents - oil, gas, water, and solids such as sand. Knowing exactly where these different layers are inside the tank is crucial for safe and efficient operation. Today, this information is often i...

Awarded: NOK 15.4 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

DDS – Distributed Damping Subs against Stick-Slip Vibrations

Drilling deep into the Earth to access underground resources is a huge task that often runs into a major obstacle: how to efficiently transfer drilling energy and torque from surface to bottom? A persistent cause of inefficiency is stick-slip, a widespread phenomenon that manifests in everyday li...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

makeSENSE: Ensemble based data assimilation with exact SENSitivities

The Norwegian petroleum industry must achieve a 50% reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, followed by a transition to near-zero emissions by 2050. At the same time, Norway plays an increasingly vital role as a stable energy supplier to Europe, and the demand for No...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Heatpacker

Marwell will develop and qualify a temperature-activated packer for open hole production wells, referred to as “heatpacker”. The objective is to enable a higher density of packers and thereby finer zonal segmentation, which can lead to increased recovery with reduced water and gas production. The...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Pre-empting CUI with retrofit sensor-based water management

Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI) is a major threat to asset integrity across all process industries. Undetected CUI can lead to major accidents, shutdowns and emissions. The current inspection approach is manual removal of insulation and visual inspection, where in most cases no corrosion is foun...

Awarded: NOK 10.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Hydrate and Wax transport models for long tiebacks in LedaFlow

Future oil and gas production will depend on subsea tiebacks and multiphase pipelines linking new fields to existing processing facilities. As fluids cool in these flowlines, wax and gas hydrate formation pose major operational risks. HyWax aims to enable safe transport of wax and hydrate as slur...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

Well Integrity for Subsurface Operations – Norway Partnership with Africa, Asia, and North America

This international project connects Norway’s world-class expertise in geoscience with new global challenges in CO2 storage and geothermal production—two key technologies for a cleaner energy future. Led by Norwegian institutions SINTEF, NGI, and the University of Oslo, together with partners incl...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Viable and Sustainable Rock-based Alternative to O&G Cement

Cement is the backbone of our modern world, but also one of its biggest polluters. Every ton of traditional cement releases nearly a ton of CO2, accounting for around 8% of global emissions. In the oil and gas industry, cement plays a vital role in sealing wells, yet it often struggles with durab...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

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 - Oslove

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

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

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

WellAware: Real-Time Well Monitoring & Integrity Management Application

By interconnecting two adjacent disciplines – production and integrity monitoring – and their respective data environments, the project aims to develop a new analytics tool for shared situational awareness with interdependencies that will improve decision making from a holistic well management pe...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

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

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

Inline measurement of PVT and thermophysical properties of drilling fluids

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Non-intrusive separator level monitoring

Nicoustic was founded in June 2022 based on groundbreaking R&D cooperation between Equinor and Fraunhofer IKTS institute (Germany). Our product is a non-intrusive sensor system based on Guided Ultrasonic Waves. Our sensors will be able to detect levels of solids and liquids in separators and tank...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORNY20-FORNY2020

Flowrate Out Sensor

Drilling underground wells is important for extracting energy and natural resources, and now also for the storage of CO2 and potentially Hydrogen. Safe and energy-efficient drilling operations are crucial for more sustainable utilization, to minimize the risk of harm to people and the environment...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

MUST: MUltiphase flow in STeeply inclined pipes

In recent decades, petroleum production has moved to deeper waters with wells and risers covering depths exceeding 1000 m. In such configurations, the dominating contribution to pressure drop may come from the wells and risers. The pressure drop at full production, together with flow stability at...

Awarded: NOK 12.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

GLOBALBÆREKRAFT-Forskning for global bærekraft

Internasjonalt FoU samarbeid

WELL ID tror Nabors kan være en viktig sammarbeidspartner for forskning og utvikling av radar basert logge teknologi. WELL ID startet nylig opp et demonstrasjonsprosjekt for core scanner. Vi ønsker å sjekke markedet for denne for å få innspill til bruk, forretningsmodeller og hvordan vi best mu...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Rogaland

DEMO2000-Prosjektrettet teknologiutv. petroleumsvirksomhet

Contextualised Digital Well Intervention

The underlying idea of the development of the Digital Well Intervention (DWI) platform is to reduce the cost and energy consumption of well intervention operations while improving quality of the solution. This will in turn increase production and value creation. This project has successfully go...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

3Drill

The main goal is to develop a system for automatic detection of wear for drill bits and drill strings using 3D scanning and machine learning. The goal is achieved through 3D scanning drill bits/drill string components with a varying degree of wear. The scan will make a point cloud model of the dr...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Telemark

GLOBALBÆREKRAFT-Forskning for global bærekraft

Reisestøtte for bedrifter til OTC Houston 2022

OTC Houston er en viktig møteplass for den globale energibransjen. Vi ønsker at flere av våre medlemmer skal utvide nettverket sitt. Reisestøtte er for mange SMB'er avgjørende om de kan reise eller ikke. Vi ønsker å tilby 10 bedrifter kr 10.000 hver i reisestøtte.

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Vestland

GLOBALBÆREKRAFT-Forskning for global bærekraft

Reisestøtte OTC

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Awarded: NOK 41,977

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

DEMO2000-Prosjektrettet teknologiutv. petroleumsvirksomhet

Ultrasonic flowmeter for subsea fiscal gas metering, subsea liquid metering, and subsea flow metering of dense-phase CO2

Ultrasonic flowmeters are widely used in the oil and gas industry because of their excellent measurement accuracy, large turn-down, and absence of pressure loss associated with most other flow measurements. This technology has so far not been available for use subsea, primarily because of its rel...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Vestland

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Norwegian Infrastructure for Multiphase Flows

Multiphase flows involve the complex interaction of fluids that affect each other. These flows are common in nature and play a crucial role in many industrial applications, such as in petroleum and carbon capture and storage (CCS) transport pipelines. From a scientific standpoint, understanding t...

Awarded: NOK 26.4 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2029

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

New explicit solver for pipeline networks

The development of LedaFlow is linked to the needs of the oil and gas industry and it is validated against field data. A central aspect of the project is to gather industrial users of LedaFlow to identify relevant areas of further development, to collect relevant field data for benchmarking and u...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Akershus

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