SINTEF projects

Accelerating a shift towards deployment of CCS in Europe through a cross-border CO₂ transport infrastructure

We study and develop numerical tools that can be used to improve the resolution of EOR simulations and, in particular, capture accurately the impacts of the injected chemicals on the recovery process.

This project strives to broaden the scope of multiscale technology by delivering substantial acceleration to conventional reservoir engineering workflows. By doing so, it not only facilitates a considerable speedup in traditional processes but also...

Many of the oil and gas reservoirs are found in weakly consolidated sandstone formations. During production sand grains might be loosened from the formation and follow the hydrocarbons.

Modern reservoir simulators provide detailed forecasts of hydrocarbon recovery based on a description of the reservoir, the fluid dynamics, well controls, and couplings to surface facilities. In model-building workflows it is often desirable to...

Enhancing hydraulic fracturing on the basis of numerical simulation of coupled geomechanical, hydrodynamic and microseismic processes.

In the two-degree scenario (2DS) of the International Energy Agency (IEA), in 2050, CO₂ capture and storage (CCS) will contribute to reducing the global CO₂ emissions by about 7 billion tonnes per year. In order to achieve this, it will be necessary...

To optimize hydrocarbon reservoir recovery, understanding and predicting flow and transport processes is crucial. Geo-cellular models, representing complex rock formations, often contain millions of cells, requiring hours for simulation. To expedite...

The purpose of the project is to develop a prototype multiscale mixed finite-element pressure solver in the ECLIPSE FrontSim streamline reservoir simulation software. FrontSim is a three-phase, 3D simulator that models multiphase flow of fluids along...

Modern methods for 3D geological modelling and reservoir characterization are leading industry to routinely build very large and detailed reservoir models; grid models of the subsurface geology currently range in size from 10 to 100 million cells and...

Industrial challenges - Oil wells produce a lot of water (e.g. 30%), while customers specify the water content to be below a certain limit (e.g. 0.5%). One technique for separating water from the crude oil is so-called gravity separators; large tanks...