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Improved Oil Recovery by Nanofluids Flooding: An Experimental Study

Abstract In recent years, several experiments of various nanoparticles have been conducted for Improved/Enhanced Oil Recovery (IOR/EOR) by worldwide petroleum researchers. Most of them gave potential result to apply in full field case. In this paper, exp erimental study has been performed to eva...

Awarded: NOK 14,999

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Environmental knowledge management for enhancing integrated operations

The recent availability of offshore deepwater installations and fiber-optic infrastructures to connect them to centers onshore in real time has made it possible to conduct oil and gas activities in highly fragile areas where the human presence is not poss ible (think for instance of the Arctic re...

Awarded: NOK 14,999

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Travel support for Science week in Houston 2012.

Science week in Houston 2012. Abstract is attached

Awarded: NOK 14,999

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

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Science week 2012

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Awarded: NOK 14,974

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Translating HSE culture in the petroleum industry

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Fitness to dive - a translational approach to physiological challenges in the hyperbaric working environment

Occupational diving takes place in extreme environments that challenge the body's ability to adapt, and pose a risk of health damage. During diving, the environmental pressure increases and the composition of breath gases is different than on land. Gases like oxygen have altered properties under ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

RiskVoyance - risk quantification for drilling operations

The well construction process is challenging as the goal is to satisfy several requirements; minimize well costs, obtain a usable hole/well and perform the operations in a safe manner. There are many sources to potential problems during the drilling process; geological uncertainty, equipment fail...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Rogaland

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Well Design Online: Komparativ Visualisering av Referansebrønner

WDO har igangsatt et prosjekt for å utvikle et framtidsrettet og verdensledende brønnplanleggingsverktøy (WellDesignOnline - WDO), som vil effektivisere boreingeniørenes arbeidsprosesser og gjøre dem i stand til å utføre oppgaver på vesentlig kortere tid, med mindre sannsynlighet for feil og med...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Pre-existing structural controls on normal fault growth, tectonic geomorphology and sedimentation in multiphase rifts

The MultiRift research project aims to develop the next generation of structural and tectono-sedimentary models for rift basins addressing the role of pre-existing structure, and the coupling between tectonic deformation and erosional and depositional pro cesses operating at the Earth's surface. ...

Awarded: NOK 12.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Vestland

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AquaWell Permanent Downhole Water Fraction and Salinity Measurement

Hammertech is in the process of developing an online measurement of water content in multiphase flow based on a patented water fraction and salinity measurement principle. This project is carried out in collaboration with Statoil and Innovasjon Norge. Thi s technology is cost efficient, simple, r...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Analysis of human actions as barriers in major accidents in the petroleum industry, applicability of human reliability analysis methods

The project is now finished. Martin Rasmussen defended his PhD successfully. The Petro-HRA method is now finished and complete, and a guideline has been issued, published at www.ife.no/petrohra. Petro-HRA is a "complete" human reliability analysis (HRA) method, including guidelines for how to...

Awarded: NOK 8.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Akershus

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Individual health surveillance of workers exposed to petroleum products

Norwegian offshore workers have an increased risk of developing blood cancer (leukemia). The causative agent is most likely the hematotoxic hydrocarbon benzene, a natural component of crude oil and petroleum products. While working gear mounted sensors for detection has limited relevance when mod...

Awarded: NOK 8.9 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2018

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Verktøy og retningslinjer for helhetlig barrierestyring og reduksjon av storulykkesrisiko i petroleumsvirksomheten

Prosjektet adresserer behov for ny kunnskap, metoder og teknologi som kan understøtte næringens eget arbeid med å redusere risiko for storulykker. Utgangspunktet er behovet for en mer helhetlig og lik tilnærming til barrierestyring i petroleumsvirksomhete n. Prosjektet gjennomføres i et flerfagli...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Buskerud

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ABM Forprosjekt

The Preproject will design and prepare a subsequent main project tentatively named ?Autonomous Barrier Management (ABM)?. As a preliminary formulation, the purpose of the main project will be: Develop a framework for embedding autonomy in safety function s of subsea well intervention systems, an...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Reisestøtte for deltagelse på IEA EOR 2012 , Regina Canada 26-30 august 2012.

Vi søker om Reisestøtte for deltagelse på IEA EOR 2012 , Regina Canada 26-30 august 2012. IEA ble grunnlagt i 1974 som et samarbeid mellom OECD-landene for raskt og effektivt kunne håndtere og redusere sin avhengighet av olje. IEA har idag 28 land som m edlemmer. IEA EOR Symposium/Workshop er f...

Awarded: NOK 79,953

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Rogaland

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Detaljert konseptevaluering Intelligent Coring System

Formålet er å gjennomføre en detaljert konseptstudie for evaluering av nytt konsept for kombinert boring/kjerneboring. Forretningsideen er basert på 4 unike konsepter for kjerneboreutstyr som er nærmere beskrevet i Prosjektbeskrivelse. Alle disse 4 nye el ementene representerer hver for seg en st...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Rogaland

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MECHANICAL DEGRADATION OF EOR/IOR POLYMERS CAUSED BY PROCESS EQUIPMENT

Mechanical degradation of polymers is a well known technical problem in the industry. Polyacrylamide molecules are flexible chain molecules that can be broken when submitted to high shear rates. This causes an irreversible loss of viscosity of the solutio n, and higher weight polymers will be mor...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Rogaland

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Enabling High-Performance Safety-Critical Offshore and Subsea Automatic Control Systems using Embedded Optimization

Model predictive control (MPC) uses numerical automatic control software that can optimize the performance of a process plant. This leads to improved regularity and better performance in terms of production rate, product quality, maintenance costs, and other performance indicators. Through the de...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Flow diagnostics on stratigraphic and unstructured grids

Computational tools for reservoir modelling play a critical role in the development of strategies for optimal recovery of hydrocarbon resources by providing a means of forecasting recovery given a set of data, assumptions, and operating constraints. Reservoir modelling is crucial to the much more...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Nordic Geomagnetic Model for use in surveying of deviated wells for petroleum production

The project is a cooperation between Teknova, DTU Space and Baker Hughes to provide the petroleum industry with a better tool for correcting magnetic surveying of wellbores against magnetic disturbances. Drilling deviated wells means trying to hit a targ et a few hundred meters in size at a rang...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Agder

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Reservoir data assimilation for realistic geology

Reliable reservoir simulation models are crucial for improved oil recovery at existing fields. The simulation models allow prediction of future reservoir behavior. This prediction forms the basis for decisions in reservoir management. For example, the models can be used to compute the optimal loc...

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Rogaland

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Formation reinforcement for wellbore stability and sand control

The major activities of the project have been both experimental and theoretical/numerical. The experiments have concentrated in optimizing the placement of nails in specimens of the two main rock types, i.e. chalk and sandstone. The chalk was an outcrop from Mons, Belgium, which is an analogue of...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Multiphase flows with viscous oil

The project focus on selected multiphase flow experiments with viscous oils, for validation and improvements of flow models which are typically for use in pipeline design. Most of previously available data are for non-viscous systems. The project activities include laboratory preparations, im...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Pressure Tolerant Power Electronics for Subsea Oil and Gas Exploitation

The principal objective for the present research project was to provide fundamental knowledge on material and component packaging for supporting the realization of reliable pressure tolerant power electronic components and circuits. Deep-water subsea oil production installations require comple...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Molecular-based technical adaptation using oil-degrading bacteria for autonomous leakage detection

This project is exploring the application of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP), a real-time analytical robot enabling advanced measurements at sea and often described as a ?molecular laboratory in a can?.The ESP analytical capabilities are explored particularly towards the environmental mo...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Rogaland

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

New Tracers and Methods for Single Well Chemical Tracer Test

The project has been organized in four major tasks. Tasks one and two has been addressing the need for new SWCTT tracers and detection methods. The aim of task three has been to develop an improved simulation tool for SWCTT planning and interpretation. The developments made in tasks one to three ...

Awarded: NOK 8.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Akershus

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Biofilm Management for the Oil Industry

Oil companies in the oil and gas industry are faced with major biofouling and biocorrosion problems that each year cost billions of US dollars. Bacteria organized in biofilms are major causative agents in these scenarios. One important aspect in the forma tion of biofilms is the required communic...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Development of high-performance and environmentally friendly water-based fluid systems for the oilfield industry

The goal in this project is to develop drilling fluids based on bio-based fibres in nano-scale. The fibres are made from cellulose and the material is called microfibrillated cellulose (MFC). Drilling fluids must have high viscosity and good thermo-stability. The fluids must maintain their stabil...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Dynamic Risk Assistant

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Rogaland

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Sanntids Undervanns Trådløst Sensornettverk for å Overvåke Isdrift i Nordområdene

Sea ice and icebergs constitute a challenge for vessels and installations operating in the Arctic. The ice is in continuous motion, often at 10-20 cm/sec., and can exert large forces on structures like ships and oil rigs. Hence, real-time ice monitoring is an important part of the oil and gas ope...

Awarded: NOK 8.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Akershus

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