417 projects

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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

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

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 - Oslove

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

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

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 - Oslove

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

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Sustainable Transition for the Norwegian Infrastructure for Multiphase Flow

The Well Flow Loop (WFL) is an integral component of the Norwegian Infrastructure for Multiphase Flows (IMF) located at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) at Kjeller. Recognized as a world-leading laboratory facility, the WFL provides cutting-edge expertise and advanced scientific instrume...

Awarded: NOK 13.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2030

Location: Akershus

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

T-Wax: New additives for oilfield wax management (WAX)

This project brings together industry and leading academic institutions to develop new technology within flow assurance – a field focused on ensuring the safe and efficient transport of oil and gas through pipelines. One of the most common challenges in oil production is wax deposition, where sol...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Rogaland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Pisces-AI: Physics-Informed AI for Subsurface Characterization ExperimentS

The Pisces-AI project explored how modern artificial intelligence—specifically so-called Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs)—can be used to interpret advanced laboratory experiments that show how fluids move through rocks in the subsurface. These SCAL experiments are important for everything...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Rogaland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

AI-Powered 3D Vision for Precision Production at Process Industries

The recent global disruption due to both crises and AI technological leap is causing serious challenges to the sustainable industrial development in Europe. For instance, Norway has high concentration of production plants for process industries, which are constrained to compete in price and quali...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Agder

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

sCENTsor - Ultra-sensitive and compact gas sensor

Sensitive trace gas detection at the parts-per-billion (ppb) level with high selectivity is critical in fields such as environmental monitoring, oil and gas, research, and aerospace. Today, this performance is achievable only with bulky and costly high-end sensors, restricting their use largely t...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

LaserPIPE – Laser-based welding of pipelines for offshore industry

Traditional electric arc welding is the most common production method for joining steel and aluminum. Arc welding, however, has some limitations, including time and in some cases also quality. In a manufacturing company with many similar welding operations daily, both time and quality are importa...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Visually-augmented acoustic subsea navigation

The use of underwater vehicles is increasing fast. Their use covers a wide range of applications, including inspection of structures, seabed mapping, and environmental monitoring. Since GNSS/GPS does not work underwater, one fundamental issue in an underwater environment, is that navigation and c...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Phase 3: Pilot Testing of Flapump Hydraulic Downhole Oil Well Pump

In this phase of the development, a Flapump downhole oil well pump will be installed in an onshore well for long time testing with real well condtions on an oil field in Texas, USA. From earlier the well pump has been tested in a laboratory with realistic conditions, and it is an updated edition ...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Akershus

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Tunable and Durable Seawater Adhesives

Gluing things together under water poses a significant challenge. In seawater this is even more difficult due to the salt content, and currently the performance and durability of seawater adhesives is very limited. This is a problem for applications in marine industry such as underwater robotics,...

Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Østfold

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Safe and Autonomous Subsea Intervention (SAFESUB)

There is an increasing industry push for smart robotic solutions able to operate in complex and unstructured scenarios. To meet this need, we will in the SAFESUB project move beyond the research front and build vital interdisciplinary competence in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Microstructure-informed Hydrogen embrittlement life prediction of Nickel-based alloys (Helife)

Nickel-based alloys (NBAs) are used in many industries, including oil and gas, due to their high strength, corrosion resistance, and expected resistance to hydrogen embrittlement (HE). However, HE has been known to cause failures in NBAs, and it is now understood that all NBAs are susceptible to ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Non-intrusive separator level monitoring

Nicoustic was founded in June 2022 based on groundbreaking R&D cooperation between Equinor and Fraunhofer IKTS institute (Germany). Our product is a non-intrusive sensor system based on Guided Ultrasonic Waves. Our sensors will be able to detect levels of solids and liquids in separators and tank...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Rengjøringsrobot for ankerkjetting (SeeMoor)

SeeMoor, a research project between OceanTech, SINTEF and Equinor, is developing a new robot for cleaning and condition monitoring of offshore mooring chains. The condition assessment can be carried out independently of water depth. Floating offshore installations are secured with mooring chains ...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS (Tekn.-ind.)

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Awarded: NOK 178.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Vestland

RETUREU-RETUREU

RETUR-EU IFE

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Awarded: NOK 74.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2030

Location: Akershus

RETUREU-RETUREU

RETUR-EU NR

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Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

MUST: MUltiphase flow in STeeply inclined pipes

In recent decades, petroleum production has moved to deeper waters with wells and risers covering depths exceeding 1000 m. In such configurations, the dominating contribution to pressure drop may come from the wells and risers. The pressure drop at full production, together with flow stability at...

Awarded: NOK 12.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - IFE

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Awarded: NOK 358.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - NR

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Awarded: NOK 63.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DIV-AKT-Planlegging, utredning og evaluering

Plast- og komposittkonferansen 2022

Plast- og komposittkonferansen er ein årleg event i regi av Norwegian Circular Material Technology (NCMT). Førre gong det blei organisert fysisk var i 2018, og då blei det samla 250 deltakarar frå heile Noreg med interesse for og virke innan plast- og komposittindustrien. Etter nokre års opphald,...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Vestland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Clamp-on Wet Gas Flow Measurement

Multi-phase and wet gas meters are important to control and understand process behaviour for optimum production. For the North Sea, unmanned platform development is a desirable, but existing sensors systems provide sensors in contact with the medium, which may lead to leakage, require maintenance...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Vestland

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Competence Hub for Neutron Technology A compact neutron generators facility for research, education and industrial applications

The Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) is establishing a neutron-irradiation facility consisting of two compact neutron sources. The new facility, the only of its kind in Norway, will ensure that Norwegian industry, civil society, authorities, research organizations, and universities have acce...

Awarded: NOK 12.8 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Akershus

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