2,199 projects

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

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

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

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

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

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

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

GEOPARD Verification - facilitating access and demonstrating value

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Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

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 - Oslove

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

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

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

NORMAR-II, Upgrade of the ROV Ægir 6000 - a remotely operated underwater vehicle for deep-sea research

Exploring the Deep Sea: The Role of Ægir 6000 and NORMAR in Unveiling Ocean Mysteries The deep oceans cover over 60% of Earth’s surface and have an average depth of nearly 4,000 meters, making them some of the planet’s least explored regions. Ægir 6000, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) for deep...

Awarded: NOK 60.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2034

Location: Vestland

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

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Robust and high-performance membranes for CO2 separation and sequestration from natural gas (MEMCO2)

Natural gas is a vital energy source, and approximately 20% contains excess CO2 that must be removed to meet pipeline specifications. The only viable solution to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions is to develop and implement carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and sequestration technologies. The prima...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

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

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Unravelling Faults properties and behavior for CO2 geological storage

The CO2SafeQuest projects aims to improve existing methods of assessing risks in CO2 storage related to geologic faults. Faults are a major concern for safe long-term storage of CO2 in the subsurface. They affect the caprock’s ability to seal the underground reservoir and the capacity of the rese...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Quantitative Strain Monitoring for Well and Seal Integrity through Wellbore Fibre Optics Cables

To assess the formation integrity, the temperature, strain and acoustics recorded along well environment need to be analyzed further for the coupled strains and acoustics through multiple media (formation, cement, casing steel, fluid, tubing) and the injection operation. Such in-situ multi-physic...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Strategic leadership of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) JP CCS

During the last 10-12 years, SINTEF has prioritized being active and contributing to the European agenda setting processes for the development of policy and priorities for R&D&I at CCUS. Through this long-term commitment, SINTEF has become an important player in the European cooperation between a...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Strategic leadership of the Zero Emissions Platform (ZEP)

The urgency to decarbonise the global economy is increasingly upon us. Limiting long-term temperature increases to 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels was agreed upon by 196 countries in the Paris Agreement in 2015, a target strongly supported by world-leading organisations such as the UN’s I...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Multiscale Pressure-Stress Impacts on Fault Integrity for Multi-site Regional CO2 Storage

The EU aims to store 50 million tonnes of CO2 annually by 2030 and 280 million tonnes by 2040, crucial for achieving climate neutrality by 2050. To meet these targets, scaling up to gigatonne-scale CO2 storage is essential, which requires a cluster approach where multiple emitters share transport...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

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

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Bridging Oceans - Advancing wave forecasting and vessel motion predictions

Introduction Accurate weather forecasting is essential for the safety and efficiency of offshore operations. When waves, wind, and currents are not well predicted, it can lead to costly delays, safety risks, and unnecessary emissions from vessels waiting on weather. As the offshore industry incre...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Akershus