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INTPART - Well Integrity & Geomechanics Workshop 2026

Welcome to the INTPART open workshop at the ZEB Laboratory in Trondheim.

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The INTPART Well Integrity project aims to strengthen international collaboration on well integrity throughout the full well life cycle, covering petroleum, geothermal and CO₂ storage applications.

Through this day, we will hear from research and industry on borehole stability and well barriers, followed by sessions with students and researchers focusing on geomechanics and well integrity.

The event is free to attend and open to faculty, researchers, and students. No registration is needed.

Bring a poster on your research to the lunch session: set it up before 9:00 or after 11:30 in the assigned poster area at ZEB Lab.

Its also possible to attend online by using this link:

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PROGRAMME

09:00 Welcome and introduction – INTPART consortium
09:15

RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE

  Borehole Stability and Shale Barriers: How to prevent and how to trigger shale failure?
Prof. Rune M. Holt & Erling Fjær · SINTEF
  Casing–Cement Interaction: The Name is Bond?
Prof. Alexandre Lavrov · NTNU
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE
  Borehole Stability – How to Handle in Practice? 
Olav-Magnar Nes · Aker BP
  Understanding and Testing Well Barrier Capacity
Pål Viggo Hemmingsen · Equinor
12:00 Lunch & poster session – posters welcome

 

13:00–14:45 · Session 1

CCS and Well Integrity
Student and researcher talks on keeping stored CO₂ safe, from monitoring to legacy wells.

CO₂ storage · fibre-optic monitoring · legacy wells · THM simulation · casing–cement debonding · fault stability


 

15:15–17:00 · Session 2

Geomechanics
Student and researcher talks on rock strength and deformation, from nanopores to the wellbore.

wellbore stability · ultra-deep formations · shale anisotropy · in-situ stress estimation · bedding slip · multiscale rock mechanics · salt precipitation · hydraulic fracturing

 

 

 


INTPART Well Integrity is supported by the Research Council of Norway and HK-dir.

Read more on INTPART: Well Integrity – Norway Partnership with Africa, Asia, and North America - SINTEF

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