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Formation of piercement structures in sedimentary basins

Piercement structures such as mud volcanoes, hydrothermal vent complexes, and breccia pipes are common in many sedimentary basins. The structures are commonly formed by vigorous eruptions transporting fluids and material from a deep source area to a vent at the surface. The high-permeability cyli...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

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Molecular tools in oil and gas exploration

A principle objective in the Norwegian oil and gas policy is to achieve oil production for 50 years and gas output in a century-long perspective. The recoverable petroleum resources on the NCS were estimated to total 13.8 billion scm oe at 2001 and 28 % o ut of this remain to be discovered. There...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Oslo

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Waterflooding of carbonate reservoirs - Optimization and improved oil recovery

Oil recovery from carbonate reservoirs is more or less dictated by the wetting condition of the reservoir. Opposite to sandstone reservoirs, about 90% of the carbonate reservoirs are believed to be neutral to oil-wet. The oil properties described by the a cid and base number appeared to play an i...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Rogaland

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Continuous updating of reservoir simulation models and improved reservoir management

To fully exploit the increased use of permanent sensors for monitoring pressure, temperature and flow rates it is natural to consider methods for continuous updating of the reservoir simulation models from this information. The main task of this project i s to make the ensemble Kalman filter tech...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Rogaland

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Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD), incl Underbalanced Drilling (UBD); A new and safe workprocess by integrating software modelling

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Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Akershus

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Frontier Science and Exploration: The Atlantic - Arctic

We propose linking academic and industrial research and data exchange in order to refine plate reconstruction and basin evolution models, characterize continental-ocean boundaries (COBs) and investigate links between Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Pla te Tectonics. State-of-the-art understand...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Downhole Production Monitoring System (DPMS)

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Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Rogaland

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Development of Dynamic Model for CMP - Controlled Mud Pressure System

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Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Vestland

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Physics of Oil Recovery

Under this very broad heading, we present in the following three projects where we propose to use our expertise in the physics of soft and complex matter on urgent problems faced by the oil industry in their efforts to increase the productivity of existin g and new reservoirs. The three principa...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

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Stretch-free high-order moveout correction, multiple attenuation and seismic imaging

The 1st part of the project is motivated by the wish to better exploit the information recorded in seismic data at large offsets. Generally, data at large offsets suffer from: • Residual moveout. • NMO stretch (usually treated by discarding long offsets). • Coherent noise (e.g. multiples and dif...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Badger Explorer Prototype

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Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Oslo

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MIOR (microbial improved oil recovery): predictive model of stimulated production and improved reservoir management by microorganisms

Microbial oil stimulation processes can be low-cost technologies with great potential for increased oil production if proven to be effective and manageable. There are several reports of MIOR field applications in the literature, and many more undocumented trials, but there is a striking lack of ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Rogaland

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Processing and inversion of marine electromagnetic data

Marine electromagnetic (EM) exploration is a new geophysical tool for locating off-shore hydrocarbon reservoirs. The principle of electromagnetic seabed logging exploits the large resistivity contrast known to exist from standard borehole logging between oil or gas reservoirs and surrounding wate...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Trace component determination in fluid for environmentally friendly exploration and testing.

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Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Rogaland

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Treatment of Produced Water: Characterization and new treatment strategies.

The research tasks in this proposal will contribute to the development of new and improved technology for a more efficient and cost effective treatment of produced water from offshore oilfield installations. The primary research tasks are defined as follo ws: Sampling and characterization A fund...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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AKSIO - Active Knowledge System for Integrated Operations

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Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

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Efficient reservoir characterization and production optimization using the augmented Lagrangian and level set methods

Updating of reservoir models with respect to dynamic data is a major challenge, which requires large effort from the field subsurface asset teams. Also, optimal use of available platform process capacities is a major challenge, especially for mature fiel ds with many wells, and for fields with n...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Vestland

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Fault Facies

The project work encompasses two stages, each covering three sub-themes/research tasks and requiring the integration of geology, geophysics, rock mechanics, mathematics, engineering and programming in order to succeed. Stage 1: As the fault facies (FF) project represents an entirely new concept...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Vestland

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Improved Oil Recovery in Heterogeneous Reservoirs

More than 50% of the oil is left behind after oil production is completed in most of the oil reservoirs on the Norwegian continental shelf. This is not acceptable in a global energy perspective. The single most important reason for such a low oil recovery is reservoir heterogeneities, i.e. varia...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Vestland

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Mineral phase transitions control on basin subsidence: The role of temperature, pressure, fluids and melting

The project focuses on studying and modeling the impact of metamorphic reactions within the crust and lithospheric mantle on the formation of extensional sedimentary basins. The volume changes of metamorphic reactions invariably cause changes in the bulk densities of lithospheric units. Numerical...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Oslo

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Singing Risers - National competence building initiative on turbulent flow for optimum flow control of gas in export risers and flowlines.

Floating production platforms in the North Sea and Arctic Frontier have experienced severe vibration and noise problems due to high frequency vibrations in flexible risers. This problem, related to large-diameter, composite flexible pipes used for gas ex port and gas injection, has been experien...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Three-dimensional numerical forward modelling of submarine massflow processes and sedimentary successions

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Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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TuMod, Integrated Turbidite Modelling

The best method for accurately representing the distribution of petrophysical properties within a reservoir is by representing the geometries of the facies and then populating facies bodies with petrophysical properties. Therefore, any future tools for mo delling turbidite reservoirs will need to...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Oslo

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Virtual Outcrop Geology

Data collected from outcrops have long been central to our understanding of the shape and form of both sedimentary and structural reservoir heterogeneites. Recent advances in subsurface reservoir technology has allowed the representation of these entities in 3D within computer systems, which in ...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Vestland

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An Operation Center for Design, Implementation and Testing of New Work Processes for Real-Time Reservoir and Production Management

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Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Vestland

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Evaluation of the Delta-K Method for delineation of reservoir structure - a feasability study

Conventional seismic imaging relies on recovering a broad bandwidth impulse from the target reflectors. The Delta-K approach, as pioneered in both radar and sonar imaging by Triad AS, offers the promise of improved imaging performance for both conventiona l and time-lapse surveys. A scattering vo...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2005

Location: Oslo

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Tectonic development and temperature history of the Vøring area, mid Norway

The Vøring area covers a large part of the southern Norwegian Sea where exploration has been done since the early 90's. The area is large and there is still a considerable lack of knowledge about the geological/tectonic development and the corresponding h eat flow history of the area. The Vøring...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Rogaland

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Pressure and stress interactions in sedimentary basins

The proposed project will focus on integrating rock-mechanical evaluations (stress modelling) and a dynamic fluid flow (pressure modelling) and its importance in oil and gas exploration. The project and the co-operation between the three participating ins titutes were initiated in 1995 through th...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Time Coded Impulse Seismic Technique for Marine Reservoir Monitoring

Various methods have been used in order to generate the signal that is transmitted into the ground and provides mapping of a reservoir by means of seismic reflection. ?Air-gun? is the most commonly used seismic source. The principle of an ?Air-gun? is som ewhat similar to an explosion in the way ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Vestland

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Carbonate Reservoir Geomodels

We will gain crucial information on the 3D geometry of fluid-flow units and spatial distribution of their petrophysical characteristics, in the following play types: (1) Cretaceous karstic shelf deposits, Cretaceous slope/base-of-slope deposits, and Eoce ne slope deposits, exposed in Italy (Garg...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Rogaland

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