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Gas Hydrates on the Norway - Barents Sea - Svalbard margin

The main objective is to quantify gas accumulations in the form of hydrates in sediments on the Norway - Barents Sea - Svalbard, including an assessment of their dynamics and impacts on the seabed to provide knowledge; vital for a safe exploitation in oil and gas production. This overall objecti...

Awarded: NOK 10.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Vestland

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Develop software for real-time drilling analysis

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Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Integrated operations ? a key enabler to operational excellence in maintenance management of FPSOs

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Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Utvikling av SiC-basert cermet for bruk i oljeindustrien

Hardmetaller (tradisjonelt WC/Co-kompositter) er mye brukt i industrien på grunn av at de kombinerer de beste egenskapene til keramer (høy motstand mot slitasje og korrosjon, samt høy hardhet og stivhet) med metallenes karakteristiske bruddseighet og dukt ilitet. Hardmetaller benyttes blant annet...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Rogaland

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Petroleum-related regional studies of the Barents Sea region (PETROBAR)

More than three decades of research and petroleum exploration in the Barents Sea have revealed deep and complex sedimentary basin systems affected by a variety of geological processes. A large hydrocarbon potential has been proven, including multiple sour ce and reservoir intervals. However, ther...

Awarded: NOK 15.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

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History Matching with 4D Seismics

History matching is a discipline which requires and involves expertise in different fields: geology, geophysics, rock mechanics, mathematics, computing and reservoir engineering. Early attempts at history matching were primarily based on matching producti on data, ie. well production and pressure...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Reservoir Monitoring and Dynamic Reservoir Characterization with Production, Seismic, and Electromagnetic Data

Reservoir characterization with only production data and prior information suffers from lack of information. 4-D seismic in addition to production data/prior information has the potential to increase the attainable quality of the property model significan tly. 4-D seismic has become a very useful...

Awarded: NOK 19.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Vestland

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Biocatalytic processes for increased oil recovery: adapting microbial long-chain alkane degradation to reservoir-like conditions

Today more than 50% of the oil discovered on the Norwegian continental shelf is, for economical reasons, unrecoverable using conventional technologies. Biocatalytic processes for increased oil recovery provide a promising tool to circumvent the use of exp ensive, environmentally unfriendly, recov...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Utvikling av verktøy for styrke, sikkerhet og pålitelighet av offshore installasjoner

Bakgrunn og prosjektbeskrivelse Med støtte fra NFR er det FE baserte analyseverktøyet ?AquaSim? utviklet. Dette er et verktøy for beregning av konstruksjonsrespons på havbruksanlegg. Slike anlegg er systemer satt sammen av flytere og fortøyning og progra mmet beregner styrke og pålitelighet av d...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Improved pore pressure prediction from seismic

The main objective of the project is to develop methods for improved prediction of pore pressures in sedimentary basins based on seismic data. Knowledge of pore pressures is important for well planning and drilling safety. An understanding of the evolutio n of pore pressures through geologic time...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Energy Generator

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Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Rogaland

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Improved over pressure protection and operational efficiency of multi-phase well streams

Over pressure protection of oil platforms is crucial to operation regularity, crew and equipment. Over pressurizing incidents on platform installations result from faulty operation of pressurised flow lines and uncertainties in modelling. These incidents may cause unrestricted unload of oil and g...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Rogaland

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Electric power systems for subsea processing and transportation of oil and gas

SINTEF Energy Research proposes a joint long term research project involving oil companies, supplier industry, NTNU and the Norwegian Research Council with the intention to boost the knowledge and skills on design, analysis and verification of systems for transmission and distribution of power t...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Flerfasestrøm med gasshydrater

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Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Akershus

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Hydrates in Petroleum Production - Deposition Characteristics

Hydrate plugging of pipelines and equipment during petroleum production is associated with high costs. Traditional methods for hydrate avoidance are quite conservative, leading to inefficient use of capital and limitations in new developments. It has been shown, however, that even when operating...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Investigation of multiphase flow through pipe junctions and application of K-tubes for phase separation and mass rate measurements

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Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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MagLev based downhole, wire replaceable, pump for artificial lift applications

To develop a new innovative downhole pump system that is based on the MagLev (magnetic levitation) technology, where all moving and wear parts retrievable without having to pull the well completion. This disruptive pump will be a very flexible and reliabl e alternative to the existing complicated...

Awarded: NOK 89,999

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Rogaland

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Bayesian Lithology-Fluid Inversion based on Well and Seismic Data

Information about petroleum reservoirs are collected in wells or seismic surveys. Well observations are precise but spatially sparse. Seismic data is indirect and fairly unprecise, but has good spatial coverage. Physical models for these data acquisition procedures are well established. Reservoi...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Reducing the Environmental Impact of Acid Gas Cleaning Technology

Acid gas removal denotes the capture of CO2 and H2S from natural gas. It is a key step in natural gas processing, and an absolute requirement before pipeline transport of the gas, where, typically, levels of 2 % CO2 and 50 ppm H2S should not be exceeded. If the gas is further processed in an LNG-...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Geological Evolution of the Barents- and Kara Seas hydrocarbon provinces

The project involves the synthesis of existing geological and geophysical data from the Norwegian and Russian Arctic basins, and their interpretation using an interdisciplinary approach. By combining potential field data with seismic lines, further calibr ated with deep wells, shallow boreholes a...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Riser tension technology for new frontiers. Environmental Friendly Cylinder Technology for Deep Water and Harsh Conditions.

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Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Agder

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Integrated analysis of near well region.

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Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Electrical Insulation Materials and Insulation Systems for Subsea High Voltage Power Equipment

Reliable power supply and distribution components are of vital importance for subsea processing. The service experience and technologies from on-shore installations have initially been adopted for subsea applications. However, sufficient reliable high vol tage concepts to meet the need for enhanc...

Awarded: NOK 24.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Reduction of turbulence induced flow noise on seismic equipment.

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Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Feasible power electronics for demanding subsea applications

Equipment for subsea processing of oil and gas needs power electronic converters as part of the equipment. Today the availability of feasible high power converters for subsea applications is strictly limited, or does not exist at all. E.g. the today's con verters aimed for subsea operation are ba...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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TERMINERT. Chemostrat - Stratigraphic representativity and mobility of chemical elements

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Awarded: NOK 90,095

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

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GPlates - A Novel Exploration Tool

Plate reconstructions have been an integral part of petroleum-related research since the advent of the plate tectonic paradigm. The GPlates consortium grew from the need to create a new plate motion model that can be linked to commonly used geological dat abases and to geodynamic models. GPlates ...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Subsea Booster Pump

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Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland

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Regularity and uncertainty analysis and management for the Norwegian gas processing and transportation system

The project will contribute to increase the efficiency of Norwegian transportation systems for natural gas, by developing theory and tools both for dynamic planning and configuration of the network, future infrastructure investments, as well as decisions related to ageing, maintenance and other o...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Rogaland

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Robotics technology for supplementing and extending human inspection and intervention capabilities

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Awarded: NOK 12.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Akershus