2,195 projects

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Innovative Technologies for Monitoring Levels of Nitrosamines and Nitramines in Air and Water Near Amine-Based CO2 Capture Facilities

TechNAM is developing new technologies to verify that capturing CO2 from industrial processes does not contaminate the ambient air and nearby drinking water sources. The goal is to meet the safety standards set by the Norwegian Institute for Public Health (NIPH). A key concern is the possible for...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

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

Safe subsea pipelines exposed to hydrogen from cathodic protection

Norway’s petroleum sector relies on an extensive network of subsea pipelines, stretching over 8,900 kilometers, to safely and efficiently transport oil and gas from offshore fields to onshore facilities in Norway and Europe. Ensuring the safety and reliability of these pipelines is critical, as a...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Deep Learning for Subsurface Characterization: Advancing Reservoir Property Estimation and CO2 Storage Assessment.

Knowing what kinds of rock lie deep below the seabed is costly and uncertain, yet crucial for storing CO2 to help mitigate climate change and extracting oil and gas safely. This project uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the accuracy, reliability, and cost-efficiency of subsurface prope...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Optimizing industrial-scale blue H2 production with liquid CO2 capture enabling maritime logistics chains

The project HydroCCS will develop new knowledge and methods for the production of emission-free blue hydrogen (from natural gas) based on a novel carbon capture technology that captures CO2 in liquid form. This methodology can be combined directly with ship transport of CO2 under both current and...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Bio&PlastiCCS: Co-gasification of residual waste (including biomass and plastic) feedstocks as a bioCCS pathway

Plastic waste is one of today’s fastest growing environmental challenges. A large share cannot be recycled and often ends up in landfills, incineration, or worse – polluting rivers and oceans. At the same time, the world needs to find new ways of producing clean energy and reducing carbon dioxide...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Intelligent Decision Support for Underwater Infrastructure Monitoring towards Higher Societal Security & REsilience

Beneath the ocean surface lies an invisible network of submarine cables and pipelines that power our lives. They carry electricity, data, and communication signals, connecting continents, enabling global trade, and supporting modern society. Yet these underwater lifelines are increasingly vulnera...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Carbon capture and storage in waste-to-energy

Despite its current momentum and critical role in climate mitigation, carbon capture and storage (CCS) faces a series of technical, infrastructural, political, regulatory, and economic barriers that hinder the necessary large-scale and rapid implementation. Though recent research has developed an...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Leveraging Distributed Acoustic Sensing for enhanced well operation

Instantaneous and reliable monitoring of the stream of gas, oil and water from a petroleum production wells requires accurate and robust multiphase flow meters that can survive the harsh conditions deep down in the well. Fibre optical sound sensors are good candidates to be used as components in ...

Awarded: NOK 15.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Biofilm Inhibition using Osmotic Pressure as a Novel Strategy for Improved Sustainability: Reducing Biocide Use and Environmental Impact

Biofilms are slimy layers of microorganisms that stick to surfaces and protect themselves with a matrix of sugars, proteins, and DNA. These microbial communities are incredibly resilient and can survive chemical attacks from disinfectants. In the oil and gas industry, biofilms frequently form in ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

RIFT-2-DRIFT - From continental rift to oceanic drift: constraining the initiation of spreading ridges

RIFT-2-DRIFT: How oceans begin. Have you ever wondered how oceans are born? Our continents haven’t always looked the way they do today. Over millions of years, they’ve drifted apart and come together again - a slow tectonic evolution known as the Wilson Cycle. But while scientists understand many...

Awarded: NOK 10.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Subsurface Understanding for Robust emissions Forecasting

Understanding the subsurface is essential for reducing energy consumption, lowering CO2 emissions, and improving recovery of resources during the planned transition to net-zero society. Developing better subsurface understanding will enhance efficiency and result in reduced emissions from oil and...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - eCO2 Industries - Towards Climate-Positive Industries

The industry sector accounted for over a quarter (9 GtCO2) of direct global CO2 emissions in 2022, and reducing these emissions is challenging. Two strategies have often been considered to ensure deep decarbonisation of industrial plants: 1) Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) from process emissions...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Safeguarding CO2 storages in the greater North Sea region through advanced monitoring

To meet Europe’s climate goals, we need safe and reliable places to store captured CO2. The North Sea offers vast potential, but storing CO2 beneath the seabed requires close monitoring to ensure safety. One of the key challenges is distinguishing between natural earthquakes and tiny tremors caus...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - LogiCCS- Efficient and sustainable maritime infrastructure for CCS logistics in the Nordic and Baltic countries

Companies are adopting various carbon abatement technologies to curb emissions, particularly carbon capture, transportation, and storage (CCS). This method is vital for reducing emissions from heat and electricity production, alongside hard-to-abate sectors like refineries, steel, iron, cement, a...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Transforming the Norwegian Continental Shelf on the pathway towards net-zero global emissions

The petroleum activity on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) holds an exceptional position in the Norwegian economy with a share of 60% of Norway’s total export, 10% of the private workforce in employment (direct and indirect), 25% of the national tax income and 25% of Norway’s total greenhous...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Decarbonizing Faroe Islands through CO2 Mineralization in Basalt

DecarbFaroe is a project designed to help fight climate change by safely storing carbon dioxide (CO2) in volcanic rock called basalt. The project will use CO2 captured from a nearby biogas plant, which processes organic waste. The goal is to demonstrate that this method of storing CO2 can be done...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Rogaland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Solvent Management Optimisation for Reducing Environmental footprint of the CO2 capture process

SolveMORE is a research project aiming to make carbon capture more efficient, safer, and environmentally friendly. It focuses on improving how we manage the chemical solvents that are used to capture CO­2 from industrial emissions, specifically a solvent called CESAR1. These solvents are designed...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

RENOVATE: Regional Energy Transition Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Strategies in Norway

RENOVATE: How Norway's oil and gas regions can meet the energy transition The effects of the energy transition in Norway will be wide-ranging, it will reshape jobs, communities, and local economies. Coastal regions that rely heavily on oil and gas, now face profound structural change. RENOVATE de...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Improved quantification and abatement of methane and VOC emissions

Methane and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released during storage, loading, transport, and unloading of crude oil and condensate contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions from Norway’s petroleum sector. These gases also represent lost energy and pose health risks—especially b...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Sustainable Oil Spill Monitoring and Analytics with Machine Learning

Havet er en av våre viktigste naturressurser, men står i fare for alvorlig skade ved oljeutslipp. For å beskytte marint liv, kystsamfunn og klimaet vårt er det avgjørende å oppdage slike utslipp tidlig. Dette prosjektet, i samarbeid mellom KSAT og UiT, har som mål å utvikle et automatisert system...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Bio energy with Carbon capture and storage through the adsorption process with metal organic frameworks.

Carbon capture and storage is a technique that aims to capture the CO2 that is emitted from different sources such as burning of fossil fuels. Biomass generated from plant and animal-based sources such as wood, sewage waste animal manure etc., are excellent substitutes for non-renewable fossil f...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Robust and adaptive control with applications to distributed flow dynamics with uncertainty.

Safe and Efficient Drilling – Powered by Artificial Intelligence and Smart Control Technology When drilling for oil and gas, maintaining control of wellbore pressure is critical. Pressure imbalances can lead to dangerous situations, such as gas leaks or loss of well control. A particularly chall...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Telemark

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

20th international EnKF workshop (2025)

The EnKF is a data assimilation method that was co-invented and has been continuously developed by researchers at NORCE and NERSC. Over the last three decades, the EnKF and related ensemble methods, has emerged as a highly effective and widely adopted approach for data assimilation in large-scale...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Vestland

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

SystematIc Methods for innovating and qualifying underwater cOmmunications and NEtwork protocols

The SIMONE consists in the design and qualification of a novel Dual Channel Acoustic Protocol for the use in the petroleum sector to support in the compelling and urgent need for underwater wireless connectivity. Such mobile connectivity is needed when deploying Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Vestland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

iDROP Oceanid Navigator 2.0

The project will develop an overall method with detailed solutions for efficient and accurate installation of large sensor networks at significant water depths, as well as a main focus on hydrodynamic and hydroacoustic control at the final phase of the operation - on-board retrieval of sensors af...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Østfold