Preliminary program:
Day 1, Wednesday, 4th March
SWIPA Highlights (09:00–11:45)
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
Moderator: Pierre Cerasi, SINTEF
09:00 – 11:45 Welcome address, HES – Eli Aamot, Executive Vice President, SINTEF
Highlights from R&D activities.
09:05 Overall status and plans for 2026, Harald Linga, SINTEF
09:15 Highlights results and impact from SWIPA WPs , Jan David Ytrehus, SINTEF, Viktoriya Yarushina, IFE , Erlend Randeberg, NORCE
09:55 – 10:20 Break
10:20 SWIPA Innovation strategy, Trine M. Stene, SINTEF
10:25 Postdoc`s and PhD-candidates – selected results, NTNU: Hadi Haghgouei, Mohammad M. Eltrissi, Maedeh Saberi, UiS: Budi Ramadhani, Foster Gomado, Shetal Roy
11:30 SWIPA Best Paper Award for 2025
Bernt Aadnøy, UiS, Chair of the SWIPA Scientific Advisory Committtee
SWIPA Technical – Plans, framework and potential (12:00 – 17:00)
11:00 – 13:00 Registration
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 16:50 Afternoon session
13:00 Opening address – Johanna Fjeld Hansen, Norwegian Ministry of Energy
13:10 SWIPA`s role and contribution towards reaching the cost cut target, Harald Linga, SINTEF
P&A roadmaps, technology initiatives and regulations
13:20 P&A strategy and concerns – update from Equinor, Pål Hemmingsen, Equinor
13:40 Updates from Havtil on Qualification and use of Creeping Shale, Nina Ringøen, HAVTIL, Norway
14:00 P&A strategy and concerns – update from Vår Energi, Brede Tøllefsen, Vår Energi
14:20 – 14:50 Break
Business opportunities towards 50% cost cut
14:50 Modular tubing pulling unit – experiences and potential for rigless P&A, Torbjørn Rullestad, Equinor
15:10 Casing removal addressing alleviation of power required, Ali Taghipour, SINTEF
15:30 – 15:50 Break
15:50 – 16:30 Panel discussion – status, hurdles and potentials
Pål Viggo Hemmingsen, Equinor, Jens Storhaug, Harbour Energy, Brede Tøllefsen, Vår Energi, Nina Ringøen, HAVTIL Norway, Bart Joppe, Baker Hughes, John Knowles, SLB, Harald Linga, SINTEF
19:30– Dinner at Radisson Blu Royal Garden Hotel, Trondheim (Aperitif 19:00).
Lars Sørum, Research Director SINTEF Industry
Day 2, Thursday, 5th March
SWIPA Technical – Performance and implementation
09:00 – 12:00 Welcome address, HES
Moderator: Pierre Cerasi, SINTEF
Well integrity and performance aspects
09:05 Keynote: Well Events with Machine Learning, Vitaly Elichev, Harbour Energy
09:25 Well barrier envelope integrity with Bi-alloy - key parameters, Hadi Haghgouei, NTNU
09:45 Resin-based remediation in large-scale test sections, Erlend Randeberg, NORCE
10:05 - 10:30 Break
Field cases, technology qualification & monitoring
10:30 Technology qualification at high TRL/field conditions - concerns and lessons learnt for P&A technologies, Lewis Harper, NetZero TC
10:50 Cement placement in irregular wellbores, Tale Egeberg Aasland, UiS
11:10 Screening and analysis of P&A status for legacy wells – examples from the North Sea , Benjamin Udo Emmel, SINTEF
10:30 Well-Associated and Naturally Occurring Methane Seeps in the Tampen Area, Stéphane Polteau, IFE
11:50 – 12:00 Summary & final remarks – Pierre Cerasi and Harald Linga, SINTEF
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
