2,179 projects

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

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

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 - 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MAPLES: Multi-fidelity and Probabilistic Lifetime Estimation for Slender Marine Structures

The oceans, with their relentless waves, strong currents, and floating platforms, pose significant challenges for slender marine structures like risers and dynamic power cables. One critical issue is Vortex-Induced Vibrations (VIV), which can affect their safety and longevity. VIV occurs when wat...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Green water - phenomena, loads and response

The ambition of the Green Water IPN is to increase the safety of floating offshore units prone to green water events. Large waves overtopping the bow or deck of offshore units may represent a threat to the safety of personnel, to structural integrity and to the environment. Experience from the No...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

DiPPER - Differential Pressure Performance: Enhanced and Reliable

The goal of DiPPER is to develop MEMS-based sensor technology for high-pressure applications focusing on accuracy and long-term stability. The project will utilize advanced micromachining techniques to construct silicon sensors that meet the stringent requirements of their intended applications....

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Topfinancing-A Framework for Modelling and Optimising the Resilience of the Integrated Natural Gas Pro-duction and Transmission Networks

Natural Gas Production and Transmission (NGPT) network systems are vulnerable to (partial) failures, leading to natural gas supply disruptions and methane emissions, thus, calling for enhanced resilience. This project proposes to develop a novel framework for modelling and optimising the resilien...

Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Tracer-gas verification of P&A barriers

Thousands of oil and gas wells are permanently plugged each year. The Norwegian Continental Shelf will need to plug approximately 3,000 wells in the coming decades. Globally, it is estimated that between a quarter and a third of these plugged wells leak. A challenge for the industry is the lack o...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Rogaland

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

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

MonkeyBot 2.0 – Automatisert Rørinspeksjon for Økt Effektivitet, Sikkerhet og Bærekraft

MonkeyBot 2.0 – The Future of Industrial Inspection In a world where safety, efficiency, and sustainability are becoming increasingly important, KAEFER blu is developing a groundbreaking robotic solution for industrial inspection and maintenance: MonkeyBot 2.0. It is designed to reduce costs, enh...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Rogaland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Sorbent based processes for highly efficient and compact CO2 capture technologies

The SHEETS project is working to develop affordable, scalable materials for capturing CO2. The goal is to create efficient CO2 capture systems that can be used in various applications, such as reducing emissions from power plants or removing CO2 directly from the atmosphere. The project focuses ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

ECCSEL-Enhancing Norwegian Capabilities

ECCSEL-ENC: Driving the Future of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) According to the EU Commission, between 300 and 640 million tonnes of carbon dioxide must be captured, utilized, or stored annually by 2050 to meet Europe's climate goals. Norway is at the forefront of CCS development with over 25...

Awarded: NOK 48.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2032

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

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

Verftsindustri 5.0: bærekraftige prosjektfabrikker

YARD INDUSTRY 5.0 The yard industry is undergoing a major transformation. To meet climate targets, Norway must expand offshore wind and green energy faster and more cost-effectively. Today’s yards are designed for large offshore projects with long timelines and strict regulations and requirements...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

FlowHeat - An innovative solution for subsea pipeline heating

FlowHeat: Revolutionizing Subsea Pipeline Heating FlowHeat is an innovative subsea pipeline heating solution that tackles challenges in offshore oil and gas operations, especially in deep, cold waters. Traditional methods like chemical inhibitors or electrical systems such as Direct Electric Hea...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

eXRES Demo

The "eXRES Demo - IPN 2024" project marks a significant innovation in exploration drilling technology. CoreAll, in collaboration with Aker BP, is developing a new resistivity sensor that enables real-time logging of geological resistivity data during drilling and coring operations. The technology...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Rogaland

PESORDNING-PESORDNING

NORSAR in CETPartnership Joint Call 2024 - PES 2025

The grant will be used to organise and write a full proposal to the CETPartnership Joint Call 2024 (second stage of application) in the Call Module CM2024-04 (“Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS)”). As coordinator, NORSAR is also responsible to make sure partners' entries on the CETP ...

Awarded: NOK 0.37 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Akershus