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We invite scholars and researchers to contribute to a research workshop retreat exploring the imperial continuities within the North Sea's extractive activities.
The HyTack project aims at developing and providing an educational base in the field of hydrogen technology to the students in the partner universities, partner countries, and to a wider community.
Mathematical models enable a scientific understanding of natural phenomena around us, and the study and optimization of processes in society and industry.
Developing a digital toolbox for Special Core Analysis (SCAL).
Nisar Ahmed has developed a workflow for seismic inversion methods to estimate the rock-properties in a reservoir.
The National IOR Centre has provided cost efficient and environmentally friendly solutions for improved oil recovery on the Norwegian Continental Shelf through academic excellence and close collaboration with the industry.
This research initiative aims to shed light on imperial logics and practices of extractive activities in the North Sea during the 20th and 21st century.
In his PhD work, Mehul Vora has contributed to new knowledge about the environmental risk related to shortlisted products and processes in improved and enhanced oil recovery.
Prediction of subsurface multiphase or single-phase flow processes is challenging, but important for oil and gas production, carbon storage and hydrogen storage and production.
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Researchers at University of Stavanger have asked the industry to define their education needs in the years to come.
How to reduce cost of energy for future large offshore wind turbines in free-wind and wake conditions by using full-scale wind and response data from offshore wind farms.
UiS researchers got funding for Polish-Norwegian collaboration.
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Huong Huynh finished her PhD project at University of Stavanger October 2021. Now her PhD thesis has been selected as Best Norwegian PhD in Catalysis.
The objective of this project is to establish long-term excellent collaboration within Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) education and research groups in Norway and Brazil.
This year's conference theme: Subsurface for energy security and sustainability.
The goal of this project is to establish a bi-national team within P&A that exchange knowledge, help to educate young professionals with expertise in this area and develop new research projects with international impact.
Cement plays a crucial role in the oil and gas industry, both during completion and P&A.
In well construction, the primary cementing job is performed to stabilize the borehole and provide zonal isolation.
Panagiotis Aslanidis defended his thesis on wettability for core analysis. The purpose of his research was to link reservoir wettability to the properties of the crude oil, rock mineralogy and formation water composition.
The European Union is facing a pressing challenge to transition into a carbon neutral economy by 2050. Researchers from University of Stavanger are participating in a new research project to investigate the key elements of this transition.
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The European Union is facing a pressing challenge to transition into a carbon neutral economy by 2050. Researchers from UiS are participating in a new research project to investigate the key elements of this transition.
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On the 25th of October 2022, Izwan Ahmad was awarded the 2022 Innovation Awards for master’s students by Rogaland county mayor Marianne Chesak.
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Researchers at UiS have developed an energy converter that creates electricity from sea currents and river flows.
Heating and cooling in buildings and industry are responsible for half of energy consumption in Europe. They have also put a severe pressure on the Norwegian electricity grid. There is a lot of waste heat released from data centres and other industrial processes in Norway, which is poorly mapped and utilized.
Micheal B. Oguntola has studied optimization and modelling of enhanced oil recovery injection strategies in his PhD project.
This research group works on topics related to geopolymers, subsurface well integrity, plugging and abandonment.
The CEMENTEGRITY project seeks to develop and test better materials for sealing wellbores exposed to CO2 stored in underground reservoirs.
The paper was awarded at the 40th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2021).
Only 25 young researchers around the world were selected to participate in the OMAE2022 Outreach for Engineers Forum. 6 PhD research fellows from UiS were awarded with a scholarship.
Smart Assets, Digital and Integrated Operations, and Condition monitoring and Maintenance Analytics.
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Researchers at the University of Stavanger (UiS) have managed to run a gas turbine on 100 percent hydrogen.
This project (SUBSET) aims to increase the relevance of subsurface course content to actual needs in the energy
industry of the future by establishing an arena for dialogue and collaboration between academia and industry.
The 5-year NORPART project "Applied Informatics for Energy System
Integration" (AI-ESI) aims to make a contribution by conducting joint activities between the partner universities in Norway, Egypt, and Palestine. Academic cooperation will target educational programs development, teaching, research and supervision, and
mutual virtual and physical student/researcher mobility.
Solar Energy Research Group seeks to overcome barriers to world solar adoption by connecting solar energy researchers from different disciplines and perspectives at the University of Stavanger. The research group is a place to share research, projects, dissemination, and ongoing activities. The group also helps researchers find ways to work together and promote joint initiatives.
The first Energy Norway conference was arranged 25-26 April 2022. Theme: Subsurface utilization for energy transition.
The Subsurface Utilisation and Renewable Energy group addresses the latest issues related to the energy transition, underground hydrogen storage, geothermal heat production and geo-sequestration of carbon.
The number of students in petroleum-related topics at universities in Norway has dramatically declined and the supply of people with subsurface competence is approaching a critical low level.
The role of the Norwegian Continental Shelf in the future energy system depends on the national and international business regulations, societal acceptance and license to operate.
Large volumes of subsurface data exist, but current workflows for subsurface understanding are suboptimal, resulting in inadequate utilization of datasets.
The amount of water injected, produced and discharged to sea in aging fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf is increasing. Water handling is energy-intensive and costly, and represents about 50% of the total energy for field operation.
Hydrocarbon (HC) production is energy intensive and emits large amounts of CO2. There is an urgent need to develop concepts and implement new energy-efficient solutions to produce HC resources at the lowest possible emissions.
The main objective of this work package is to improve the reservoir energy production strategy with carbon capture and storage.
The objective of this work package is to develop a holistic petroleum system model and exploration for sustainable use of the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
University of Stavanger together with NORCE, Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) and University of Bergen, are the main research institutions in NCS2030.
The centre includes an expert team of geoscientists, reservoir engineers, modellers, data scientists, economics, among others, that will work together with industry experts.
The research centre NCS2030 will find solutions that maximize the value creation of energy resources on the Norwegian continental shelf, while at the same time achieving the net-zero emission (NZE) goals.
Save the date for our conference on subsurface utilization for energy transition, 25-26 April 2022.
Radioactive Waste Spatialities, Materialities and Societies in the Nordic Region, 1960s to 1990s
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The Research Council allocates NOK 28 million to the ImpactWind Sørvest project, led by NORCE. UiS is an important research partner in the project. Professor Muk Chen Ong leads one of the work packages.
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University of Stavanger with partners have been awarded the National Centre for Sustainable Utilization of Energy Resources on the Norwegian Shelf (NCS2030).
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A total of 12 companies are on the list of the industry partners of The National IOR Centre of Norway. Chair of Board Thierry Laupretre (Aker BP), sums up the collaboration.
Eight years of research on improved oil recovery are coming to an end. In this article you get the highlights from the research at The National IOR Centre of Norway.
“Norway’s cold climate is very suitable for building-integrated photovoltaics,” says researcher Hassan Gholami. He completed his doctoral degree on the subject at the University of Stavanger.
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University of Stavanger, NORCE, IFE and University of Bergen are partners in an application for a new petrosenter, focusing on subsurface research.
Five petroleum engineering students from University of Stavanger reached the finals in the prestigous PetroBowl contest.
See the list of all scientific publications written by researchers affiliated with the IOR Centre.
In her doctoral work, Siv Marie Åsen has taken a closer look at what happens to different types of polymers when they are injected in the reservoir. Are the polymers degraded when transported through pipes or through the sandstone reservoir?
Important deliverables from the Centre are well documented and verified methods for evaluation of IOR potential on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. To gain increased knowledge and better methodologies it is important to integrate and combine different methods for field specific applications.
This forum will focus its work on polymer flooding from pore to core scale, and partly to field scale.
The economic feasibility of implementing new IOR methods on a field needs to be evaluated, preferably taking the uncertainty in the reservoir description into account.
Improved modeling methodology and simulation capabilities for IOR are important to perform reliable pilot and full field simulations.
The main objective of this task was to devise methods and procedures to map volumetric distribution of residual oil saturation in a reservoir after secondary production.
What are the most important parameters from smaller scales that are important to describe flow on a larger scale? Chemical EOR methods have proven their potential on core scale. But, additional oil produced at the core scale does not necessarily imply that the field recovery will be similarly increased.
The objective of the pore scale task was to identity mechanisms that influence fluid transport, chemical reactions, and oil recovery.
This research group focuses on the mineralogical and geological background of tested rock material for a variety of core flooding experiments and to search for the most economic and fastest toolbox of methods to gain substantial results within this objective.
The National IOR Centre of Norway was evaluated this fall. Now the report is complete. A consensus expert panel provides green light for three new years with research on improved oil recovery at University of Stavanger.
SR-bank's Innovation Award 2017 was given to Arild Lohne, NORCE and PhD student Oddbjørn Nødland, UiS. Both are researchers at the National IOR Centre of Norway.
The Scientific Advisory Committee of The National IOR Centre of Norway has spoken: The Centre should be proud of its fundamental research.
50 of the IOR Centre's researchers, project managers and PhD students were gathered at Sola strandhotell for a day of good talks, inspiration and socialization.
At core scale we focus on IOR mechanisms; improving macroscopic and microscopic sweep efficiency.
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The Department of Energy Resources at UiS is investing in new equipment and new research areas within geotechnics and geophysics, in collaboration with Anko. This gives our students the opportunity to learn subjects and techniques that can also be used outside the petroleum industry.
Mário Helder Lopes da Silva has developed a method for qualification of new partitioning tracers for use in Partitioning Inter-well Tracer Tests (PITT).
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The University of Stavanger is investing in hydrogen research. Olena Zavorotynska is one of several researchers who, with the support of the Akademia agreement, will take a closer look at the opportunities hydrogen provides us in the energy mix of the future.
Energy transition towards clean, sustainable, and affordable energy solutions is on top of the global, national, and local agenda.
Running research projects in the Energy Systems Engineering group.
Our work connects researchers, educators and students at UiS with partners in industry, business and public sector with focus on energy technology.
In this page you find the courses taught at University of Stavanger related to energy technologies and system integration.
We use state-of-the-art tools like advanced physical models, artificial neural networks, and integrated design, control and optimization algorithms.
Energy transition towards clean, sustainable, and affordable energy solutions is on top of the global, national, and local agenda.
Energy transition towards clean, sustainable, and affordable energy solutions is on top of the global, national, and local agenda.
The group focuses on developing innovative techno-economically sustainable solutions and has a broad network of academic and industrial partners.
Distributed energy conversion technologies, using fuel flexible solutions, energy storage and smart technologies are essential parts of the energy transition towards carbon free solutions.
This research group focuses on exploring and implementing green and sustainable chemistry into novel biodegradable and non-toxic compounds.
Can we produce energy, limit land use and create industrial opportunities by using our house facades as solar panels?
The 7th IOR NORWAY is arranged 26-28 April 2021. The digital event will be co-organized with the 14th International Symposium on Reservoir Wettability and its Effects on Oil Recovery.
270 participants caught up on the newest in IOR research at this year's big IOR event at University of Stavanger.
The sixth annual conference hosted by The National IOR Centre of Norway is history. Hopefully the participants got a refill of both knowledge and entertainment.
Shaghayegh Javadi can welcome the Christmas holidays as Doctor Javadi after defending her PhD thesis November 25th, 2019.
Samuel Erzuah defended his PhD thesis 24 September. Now he is moving back to Ghana as Dr. Erzuah.
With a thesis on a very topical theme, CCUS, Mohan Sharma graduated as the sixth PhD at the Centre.
In her PhD work, Remya Nair has investigated how "smart" salt water can increase oil recovery. 15 March she defended her doctoral thesis.
Oddbjørn Nødland was the fifth PhD candidate to graduate from The National IOR Centre of Norway.
Auditorium E-164 was packed at the public defence of Mona Minde's doctoral degree.
On June 6th, Laura Borromeo defended her dissertation. Her thesis evaluates if Raman spectroscopy could be applied to enhanced oil recovery investigations.
Kun Guo defended the degree philosophiae doctor 12 April. He is the second PhD student to graduate from The National IOR Centre of Norway.
Aojie Hong was defending the degree philosophiae doctor Thursday, December 14th. He is the first PhD student to graduate from the National IOR Centre of Norway.
With around 25 participants PhD candidate Jaspreet Singh Sachdeva defended his thesis in a video conference in Teams Monday 20 April. Now he can finally call himself a doctor.
The purpose of Emanuela Kallesten's project is to understand how stress state and pore pressure affect the permeability of compacting rocks at reservoir conditions.
Dhruvit Berawala's PhD project deals with numerical modelling of shale gas production and CO2 injection in shale gas reservoirs for enhanced recovery.
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Repsol, IKM Acona and Vår Energi awarded a total of nine prizes and NOK 275,000 to bachelor and master students at UiS.
Tijana Voake defended her PhD thesis 22 January, and is now ready for new challenges.
Research and education today cannot be conducted without using state of the art software products. For an academic institution usual marked prices are unaffordable. We are thankful that software companies generously donate software that we can use in public research and the education of bachelor, master, and PhD students.
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Spring of 2019, a wind turbine was lifted into place and installed on the Ullandhaug campus. Solar cells have already been installed. The turbine and solar cells are part of a laboratory that will produce energy from solar and wind. Students, researchers and the business community can study the energy mix produced at the lab.
The Applied AI and Digitalization in Drilling Group at IEP, Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Stavanger, bridges the gap between industrial domain expertise and latest advances in Artificial Intelligence.
Structural geology is the study of tectonic deformation. We focus on the deformation of the upper crust and how it affects erosion and sedimentation in sedimentary basins, forms faults and folds that compartmentalize reservoirs, and makes ductile materials, such as salt, flow.
Basin scale studies focus on improving the understanding of paleogeographic evolution, tectonic and sedimentary interaction, and petroleum systems by integrating surface and subsurface data.
Provenance research tracks the transport routes of sediment. Such research is done for various reasons, such as paleogeographic, paleogeologic, and tectonic reconstructions of basins, basin surroundings, and continental-plate configurations.
Light detection and ranging (lidar) research focus on the planning and collection of lidar data as well as the processing and interpreting of 3D outcrop models.
Geophysics uses measurements of physical quantities to make inferences about the geological properties of the Earth and other planets. Geophysical methods are used in many fields of science and engineering. Specialized areas include environmental geophysics, exploration geophysics, and near-surface geophysics.
Geographic information science (GIS) research focuses on the analysis of spatial relationships, defining uncertainty, and using GIS for decision-making.
Value can only be created through our decisions. Uncertainty is inseparable from all significant decisions. You can’t make good decisions without embracing uncertainty.
Geosciences is an important expertise area within the energy sector, environment, construction among others.
Due to an increase in the amount of data available through technological advancements, AI and machine learning approaches can be employed to convert the data into contextual information, leading to a step change in the field of energy and petroleum engineering.
The PhD programme in Science and Technology at the University of Stavanger offers five specialisations: Energy Engineering and Geoscience, Offshore Technology, Mechanical and Structural Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics and Physics, Risk Management and Societal Safety, and Chemistry and Biological Science.