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SINTEF Industry Drilling and Well

Drilling and well

SINTEF combines theoretical work with laboratory experiments and field experience, and focuses on making results from the work available for operational team, in order to contribute to faster, safer and cheaper drilling and well operations while also caring for the long term integrity of the wells.

Harald Linga
Research Manager
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Expertise

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3D Measurements and Analysis

Additive, subtractive and hybrid production

Borehole stability

Chemical engineering unit operations and process plants

CO2 - Storage

Formation as a self-sealing barrier

Formation Physics

Geomechanics for CCS

Geophysics

Hydraulic fracturing

Injectivity

Instrumentation for harsh environment

Logging through casing

Materials and drilling technology

Models and tools for rock behaviour

Plugging materials

Sand and chalk production

Shale rock physics

Sub sea factory

Well Integrity

Laboratories

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Formation Physics Laboratory

The Formation Physics Laboratory provides laboratory services covering a wide variety of aspects within petroleum rock mechanics and related areas. We do testing both separately for external clients, and as part of the Formation Physics Department’s research projects.
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Projects

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HIP Source: Heatwave Inflow Performance Source Characterization

24 September 2021

The HIPlog system uses heat pulses released into the well fluid for real-time downhole flow monitoring. The system comprises autonomous heat sources installed in the well and software for interpretation of measured heat pulses. The HIP Source project seeks to create improved numerical models for the generated heat pulses.

Norwegian P&A Laboratories

31 March 2020

The Norwegian P&A Laboratories project will set up a full-range lab facilities for safe and cost-efficient plugging and abandonment of wells. The institutions SINTEF (project owner), NORCE, NTNU and UiS, together organised as Norwegian P&A Laboratories, will design and install the enhanced facilities over the period 2020-2023.

KOPROD

04 July 2017

The main goal of KOPROD is to demonstrate methods and technology solutions for future competitive production of complex, small and medium volume products for cost-sensitive markets. The project is financed by the Norwegian Research Council's BIA-program.
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News

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Simulation model may reduce the climate footprint of oil production

29 September 2020

Future offshore oil and gas fields are most likely to be “satellite developments” that are less expensive and emit less greenhouse gases than other fields because they do not require new production platforms. An innovative Norwegian computational tool called “Slug Capturing 2” is now enabling the design of longer pipelines that will allow many more fields to be developed as satellites.

New research and innovation center to provide climate-friendly value creation on the Norwegian continental shelf

23 June 2020

The Board of the Research Council of Norway decided on June 11 to grant SFI Swipa (Subsurface Well Integrity, Plugging and Abandonment) status as Center for Research-Driven Innovation for the next eight years.

Electrophoresis to improve well construction?

03 December 2018

Well construction in oil & gas and geothermal industries becomes increasingly complex and costly as the target depths increase. New ways to reduce costs and improve safety are therefore actively researched. Electrophoresis , a physicochemical effect known from the early 1800s, may help in reducing costs in drilling and well construction. In particular, it may facilitate cleaning of the equipment. It also may reduce energy consumption when drilling fluid and cement are pumped into the well.
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