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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

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Realistic assessment of the effects of anthropogenic offshore activity on the habitats of a keystone ecological and commercial fish species

The ecosystems and areas in the ocean are under increasing pressure due to high petroleum production and new projects in offshore wind and carbon capture. The combined pollution effects of this expansion, along with the heightened risk of oil spills and the impacts of climate change, are worsenin...

Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

gigaCCS - Norwegian Research Centre of Excellence for Carbon Capture and Storage test

The urgency to decarbonise the global economy to limit temperature increases to < 2°C is now. CO2 capture, transport, and storage (CCS) deployment at gigaton scale, which is widely recognised as being vital for a just and sustainable transition to net-zero emissions, can significantly reduce emis...

Awarded: NOK 180.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2032

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Inline measurement of PVT and thermophysical properties of drilling fluids

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Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Rogaland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Making the green shift work for regions

Our project aims to develop a new understanding of how regional labour markets are adapting to the grand challenge of Green Shift. We will go beyond national and industry forecasts by recognising that responding to this challenge will be region specific processes of adaptation and change. Labour...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

AI-Drill – Deliver Wells Faster and Safer

Drilling is a complex process with significant risks for offshore workers and represents around 30% of the total costs on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Optimizing drilling operations through new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) is therefore a high priority, as it can bot...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Rogaland

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Ansvarlig Radikal Innovasjon: Nettverk og læringsArena

ARINA is a competence and learning arena for the Research Council of Norway's technology convergence portfolio. The network continues and deepens the portfolio projects' own work on responsible radical innovation. In this way, the work for transformative processes in Norwegian R&D is coordinated ...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

CFU generasjon 5 for olje og partikler

During oil and gas production, water and sand is being separated from the crude oil. This is done to enhance the quality of the oil prior to transport to the refinery. At the same time, the volume of liquids transported to land is being reduced. Produced water is the term for the water that is se...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Vestfold

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Fishbones Drilling, Extended Reach Laterals

Fishbones' Multilateral Stimulation Technology for hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs is a well-established method in the global simulation market. Developed in cooperation with major E&P companies, Fishbones’ solutions for carbonate and sandstone/clastic reservoirs are both fields proven. The...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Rogaland

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

Pilot gjenvinningsanlegg til behandling og nyttegjøring av petroleumsavfall med borekaks som råvare i tilslags masse til mørtel og betong

Risavika Gjenvinning is developing a pilot to create new solutions turning waste into value. Finding sustainable solution for more energy efficient recycling and recovery of waste. Using technical prosess of separation, heat, splitting fractions and reusing materials in different fragments to bec...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

GrønnPuls: Digitalt visualiseringsverktøy for måling og rapportering av bærekraft i verdikjeden

Small and medium-sized suppliers in the energy sector are increasingly expected to report their climate impact, yet many lack the capacity, expertise, and digital infrastructure to meet these demands. The GrønnPuls project, led by Compera in collaboration with the University of Stavanger, investi...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Rogaland

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

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

DrillComputer2 - Drill faster, further and straighter

Oil-well drilling is a very complex operation that includes transferring rotational energy from the surface to the drill bit by the use of a slender pipe that is called a drillstring. In this project we are developing a drillstring simulator that computes all stresses and motions in the drillstri...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

T-3000 - Thru-tubing, riggløs plugging av brønner med Bismuth Alloy (M3)

There are more than 2,500 wells on the Norwegian Continental Shelf that need to be permanently plugged in the coming years. The current method requires the use of drilling rigs, which leads to very high costs. The project aims to develop and demonstrate a new method for permanent well plugging – ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Rogaland

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: 2024-2025

Location: Akershus

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: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

Modulær prosess for fleksibel produksjon av komposittrørkoblinger

Pipe couplings for distributing drinking water and gas made of plastic composite are an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional brass couplings, with a significantly lower CO2 footprint over their lifespan. However, conventional manufacturing technology makes it too costly to develop...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Innlandet

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Videreutvikling av teknologi for bedre undergrunnsforståelse og innsamling av data for mer effektive boreoperasjoner

It is important to have a good understanding of the rock formations and its characteristics in order to maintain well integrity during drilling operations. Such understanding is also important for other operations, such as permanent plugging and abandonment of wells. QWave has developed a new t...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

At-the-Bit Piggyback Drilling Solution - an integrated while drilling solution for mud loss control.

Managing large mud losses during drilling is a major challenge for the oil industry. The issue is even more challenging with the continued development of mature fields with depleted reservoirs with marginal pressure windows during drilling. Current solutions are based on the use of particle-based...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Tool to select optimal and more environmental friendly drilling fluid for drilling of exploration-, production-, P&A-, and geothermal wells

When drilling a well, the choice of drilling fluid is crucial for profitability, efficiency, and safety. Drilling fluid has several essential and central functions, including lubrication, stabilization, transport of drill cuttings, and cooling of the drill bit. The goal of our project is to devel...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Interactive analysis of OBN data

Ocean bottom node (OBN) surveys, which offer clear imaging advantages, are steadily supplementing (and sometimes replacing) surveys acquired with conventional streamers. This is driven by their ability to record a wider and richer azimuth of high-quality data over complex and challenging subsurfa...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Rogaland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Demonstrate and test a new Compact Once Through Steam Generator (COTSG) as a core component of offshore Combined Cycle Power Plants (CCPP).

Techouse AS is currently having significant success in implementing gas turbine combined cycle solutions on offshore installations which result in 22-25% reduction in CO2-emission compared to conventional gas turbine solutions. The combined cycle is a heat and power solution where heat from the e...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Rogaland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Sharing and recycling shale mechanical data to enable gigaton CO2 storage

Storing CO2 underground is emerging as a promising solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this underground storage, shale rock plays a critical role; it acts as a protective cap that seals off the stored CO2, keeping it securely contained. But how can we trust this cap? To address this, ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Field studies for de-risking existing wells and CCS site geology

Legacy wells are old exploration and production wells that are penetrating the rock formations in the subsurface. To enable large-scale CO2 and energy storage, these wells must be assessed and monitored to avoid any leakage from the reservoir where the fluids are stored (several hundreds of m to ...

Awarded: NOK 13.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Sorbent Assisted Carbon Capture Tailored for Low CO2 Concentrations from Air and Low Industrial CO2 Emissions

What is the aim of the SENSATION project The SENSATION project is working on a new technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2), from both air and from industries that release very low concentrations of CO2 in their exhaust gases. Capturing CO2 when it’s highly diluted is a big challenge. Existing ...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Risk-based framework for assessing CO2 storage monitoring

TO meet the need for increased CO2 storage, technical, economic, social, and environmental aspects must be integrated for effective planning and execution. Monitoring objectives such as changes in CO2 saturation, reservoir pressure, and stress fields can be determined by analyzing different type...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

DISTINGUISH: Decision support using neural networks to predict geological uncertainties when geosteering

The ability to fine-tune well positioning in real-time through geosteering increases the potential value of wells and minimizes risks. Geosteering is essential for petroleum drilling and also applies to other types of drilling, including geothermal projects, civil wells and tunnels, and soon, CO2...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Next Arctic Rush? Critical Materials for the Energy Transition

If the Paris Agreement is to be fulfilled, 80% of the world’s energy production must be zero-emission by 2030, and all energy must be zero-emission by 2050. The technologies needed to achieve this dramatic shift depend on certain critical materials (lithium, copper, rare earths, etc.). If these a...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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