142 projects

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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

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

INFRAPOLITICS: Strengthening Critical Infrastructure Governance for Resilience and Security

INFRAPOL will explore how critical infrastructure – such as ports, data centers, subsea cables, and oil and gas pipelines – should be governed. Critical infrastructure is subject to complex political and economic pressures, often involving cross-border ownership interests. Public and private acto...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

Risk assessment for the potential natural event triggered technical accidents of the offshore oil & gas industry in green transition

Natural disaster-triggered technical events (NATECH) pose significant risks to offshore oil and gas facilities. These events, caused by extreme weather like hurricanes and storms, can severely damage platforms, pipelines, and other infrastructure. These challenges are intensified in the current o...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Teknologi-plattform for deteksjon av giftige gasser

Toxic gases can be deadly even at very low concentrations, and over time, they can cause life-threatening diseases at even lower concentrations. It is therefore important to have good sensors that can detect these gases. Optronics, together with SINTEF, has developed two new and unique concepts ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

New geopolitics and the interaction between safety and security in petroleum risk governance

The geopolitical situation in Europe changed dramatically with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, immediately causing deep concern about the security of European energy infrastructure. After the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines and sightings of drones around Norwegian oil and gas installations, i...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Intelligent autonomous systems for safeguarding operations and infrastructure at sea

In recent years, the geopolitical situation has developed in ways that make critical infrastructure an increasingly exposed target. The attacks on the North Stream and Balticconnector gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea clearly demonstrated the seriousness of the consequences of such incidents for Eu...

Awarded: NOK 12.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Exposure Assessment and Prevention of Death, Disease and Injuries among Offshore Petroleum Workers

Reporting period: 01.10.2024 – 30.09.2025 Work Package 1: The expert-based semi-quantitative benzene JEM scores have been linked to the database of personal measurements from 1993–2023, and quantitative estimates have been developed. A manuscript for this work has been in progress and is planned...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Context-Based Real-Time OT-IT Systems Integrity Management

CORESIM is a research project aimed at helping industries respond more effectively to cyberattacks on systems that bridge the digital and physical worlds, known as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). These systems control everything from oil rigs to power grids, and when they’re attacked, the consequen...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RETUREU-RETUREU

RETUR-EU NTNU SAMFUNNSFORSKNING

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Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - NTNU Samfunnsforskning

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Awarded: NOK 63.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

APOS 2.0 - Digital life cycle management of interoperable safety systems

The importance of maintaining a safe, efficient and reliable energy sector has recently become increasingly clear. In this project, we develop solutions to enable the energy sector to improve follow-up of their safety systems by introducing digital solutions that facilitate sharing and exchange o...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Buskerud

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

AIMSES - Disruptive Health Monitoring of Electrical Machines

The next generation of transportation vehicles are electric, including electric aircraft, electric cars, hyperloop, and electric ferries. To ensure safe operation of these vehicles is crucial. Imagine that you take a trip with electric aircraft and suddenly the engine stop working. What can happe...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INNO-NAERING-Inno-naering brukerstyrte prosjekter

Lighten the load by optimized occupational footwear

The project “Lighten the load by optimized occupational footwear” was established to develop optimized safety footwear that met the requirements for good ergonomics and safety, while also reducing the negative environmental impact of shoe production. Low satisfaction with comfort and ergonomics i...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Møre og Romsdal

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Night work, season and sleepiness as occupational safety hazards in the Northern Areas

The High North is characterized by large seasonal variation in light and temperature. The NORALERT research project will investigate impact of conditions in the region on employees working night-shifts. Figures from The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway show that the safety levels are generally ...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

MAS – Meaningful Human Control in autonomy/digitalization of safety critical systems

The petroleum sector in Norway has a world-class track record in Health-Safety-and-Environmental (HSE), based on a risk-based regulatory framework. This framework has been built on collaboration between industry, authorities, researchers, and the workforce. The MAS project is based on this collab...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Risk-based simplified fire models and methods

Fire safety design of industry facilities that may experience large scale fires feed by accidental releases of combustible material is challenging. On one hand, current technology allows for effective control of fire risk by implementation of mitigating barriers such as passive and active fire pr...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Cybersecurity Barrier Management

The aim of the project is to develop new knowledge and provide guidance to protect industrial control and safety systems against cyberattacks. Several threat actor groups are actively targeting the petroleum sector, and the number of publicly reported cyberattacks is rising, highlighting a growin...

Awarded: NOK 16.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORNY20-FORNY2020

KVAL: Field Kelvin Probe (FKP) for early detection of corrosion

The lifetime of a metallic structure is to very high extent determined by its corrosion resistance. Structures are traditionally protected by organic coatings, which protect the metal as long as the coating?s integrity is not compromised. Although a multitude of inspection tools are available tod...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2021

Location: Rogaland

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Consequences of fundamental changes in risk regulation

The Consequences of fundamental changes in risk regulation (RISKY) project studied the implications of transitioning to an uncertainty-based risk conceptualization. In 2015, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway changed the definition of risk underlying their regulation, now emphasizing uncertain...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

ROBPLAN; Autonomous robot missions with AI-based planning and acting

The industry and public sector are pushing for robotic solutions with high levels of autonomy that can operate safely and efficiently in increasingly complex operations. And great efforts have been made to realize such systems. Research and development on stand-alone automated functions for robot...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORNY20-FORNY2020

KVAL: RIMARC Startup II - Investigation and documentation of commercial potential of next minutes wave prediction software

RIMARC is a new software tool that by means of a standard ship navigation radar can predict ocean waves 4-8 minutes ahead in time. Prototype test have shown that the system developed can make such prediction. By use of the RIMARC solution we aim to increase both safety and operation efficiency by...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2021

Location: Rogaland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Collaboration models in offshore helicopter personnel transportation and emergency response planning

Objectives: Planning problems in offshore energy logistics are rather complex, however the research in this field is scarce and has a huge potential for improvement. The aim of the project is to provide knowledge and solutions enabling collaboration between offshore energy companies in logistics...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Rogaland

FORNY20-FORNY2020

KVAL: Digital solutions for integrating physical models with sensor data to combat corrosion under insulation

There are hundreds of kilometers of insulated pipe networks within the oil & gas-, chemical- and process industry on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, as well as onshore. Insulation is commonly used for fire protection, noise reduction or to stabilise process temperature. Even though the insulatio...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2021

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

EUROSTARS-EUROSTARS

E!114180 IESS - Integrated Electric Sealing System for well intervention.

The research and development project's main goal is to develop a new Integrated Electric Sealing System (IESS) to increase operational reliability during well intervention, and to increase the recovery rate of existing oil wells. IESS may also be able to be used in "deep sea mining applications"....

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Vestland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

SWIPA - Centre for Subsurface Well Integrity, Plugging and Abandonment

The primary objective of the center SWIPA, Centre for Research-based Innovations Subsurface Well Integrity, Plugging and Abandonment, is to develop new innovative cost-saving solutions for P&A (Plugging & Abandonment) of wells. Successful innovations in this field will save Norway considerable am...

Awarded: NOK 96.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

PRAI: Predicting Riser-response by Artificial Intelligence

Deep-water risers are continuously exposed to currents and turbulence. This leads to fatigue damage accumulation due to so-called Vortex Induced Vibrations (VIV). Consequently, VIV represents a safety risk and is a major design consideration adding notable costs to all stages of the riser system ...

Awarded: NOK 10.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

C.PIMS - Composite Pipeline Integrity Management System

The project objective is to develop a pipeline integrity management system for flexible composite pipes that is equivalent to the systems currently used for steel pipes. Over the first 15 months progress has been made on several key topics. Mapping the needs for development of particular steps i...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Akershus

MARITIMFORSK-MARITIMFORSK

Laser Radar for Safe and Clean Seas

Safety and security at sea depends already on advanced technologies, such as radars, satellite sensors and GPS navigation. So does environmental monitoring and maritime resource management, such as fisheries. This project introduces a new invention which will further improve these capabilities ...

Awarded: NOK 19.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Offshore worker heliport database cohort and new studies on exposure-related health

Summary of the entire project period: January 1, 2020 – June 30, 2025 The aim of the project has been to establish a new cohort, the Heliport Cohort, and to investigate work-related cancer among Norwegian offshore workers. The Heliport Cohort, based on registry data and survey responses, has bee...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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