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SINTEF Industry Oil and Gas

RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

The upstream oil and gas sector in Norway has developed competitive, high quality products and services in one of the most demanding oil and gas provinces in the world, the Norwegian Continental Shelf.  Open Innovation has been a vital ingredient for the highly innovative Norwegian oil and gas sector, and a main task for SINTEF is to contribute to a continued success story in this respect.  

Lars Sørum
Research Director
928 04 925

Expertise

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Accident investigation and learning

Barrier management

Basin modelling

Business economics

Catalysis

CO2 - Storage

CO2 capture plant emission measurements

Corrosion and Tribology

Data science

Decision support systems

Experience data

Failure investigations

Fate and effects of pollutants

Fatigue and fracture

Flow assurance

Formation Physics

Geophysics

Materials and drilling technology

Oil and gas conversion technology

Oil spill research

Optimization

Process and flow technology

Process Safety – Subsea gas release

Risers and pipelines

Risk and Vulnerability

Safety case

Sub sea factory

Uncertainty

Welding and joining

Laboratories

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High Throughput laboratory - Oslo

The High Throughput laboratory can be divided in three main activates: 1) design and construction of high-throughput equipment, 2) parallel synthesis of materials, and 3) parallel screening of materials properties. We provide automated custom made high precisions equipment for a wide range of applications. Development and application of combinatorial and parallel approaches are used to accelerate the research and development of a large number of industrially relevant processes.

Laboratory for screening of catalysts and adsorbents

SINTEF has a large number of various reactors for screening of catalysts and adsorbents. SINTEF has knowledge and experience in designing and building laboratory reactors for a range of industrial processes.

Environmental and biochemical analysis

SINTEF Ocean offers chemical analysis of emerging and priority pollutants, petroleum products and biomolecules. With our advanced analytical platform, we tailor analytical solutions to each project. We co-operate closely with laboratories across SINTEF to offer advanced analysis for any research need.
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Projects

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REALISE – Demonstrating a Refinery-Adapted Cluster-Integrated Strategy to Enable Full-Chain CCUS Implementation

11 January 2021

REALISE will develop carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) strategies for oil refineries-centered industrial clusters and demonstrate in a pilot scale an absorption technology based on novel solvent for cost-efficient and environmentally sustainable CO2 capture from multiple flue gas sources.

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.

Torsion

04 June 2020

Torsion issues during handling of cables, flexible pipes and umbilicals.
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News

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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.

Sleipner partnership releases CO2 storage data

12 June 2019

Equinor and its partners will disclose a dataset from the Sleipner field; the world's first offshore CCS plant, in a push to advance innovation and development on the field of CO2 storage.

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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