09:00 – 10:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION & COFFEE

10:00 – 11:35 WELCOME AND PLENARIES - Meeting room: Olav Tryggvason 2+3

10:00 – 10:10 Welcome to the BRU21 Conference

►  Ute Mann, Head of Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, NTNU

10:10 – 10:25 BRU21: Developing Digital and Automation Solutions for the Offshore Energy Industry

► Alexey Pavlov, Professor, BRU21 Program Manager, NTNU

10:25 – 10:55 Technology Implementation - Internal vs External

► Olav Kigen Bjering, Manager Operations and Maintenance Technology and Support Services, Equinor

► Olav Landstad, Team Leader Operations and Maintenance, Equinor

10:55 – 11:15 European Cooperation: Decarbonizing Power and Industry

► Asgeir Tomasgard, Professor, Director NTNU Energy, Director NTNU Energy Transition Initiative

11:15 – 11:35 Does the Norwegian Continental Shelf Contribute to Increased Sustainability? 

► Thomas Lerdahl, Lead Advisor Subsurface Quality Management, OKEA

11:35 – 12:30 LUNCH 

12:30 – 14:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS:

A1. ECONOMIC DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS FOR LARGE-SCALE ENERGY PROJECTS - Meeting room: Olav Tryggvason 2+3

Chair: Verena Hagspiel, Professor, NTNU

Co-chair: Thomas Lerdahl, Lead Advisor Subsurface Quality Management, OKEA

12:30 – 12:40 Field Development and Economics Research in BRU21

► Verena Hagspiel, Professor, NTNU

12:40 – 13:00 The Offshore Directorate Perspectives of Knowledge Needs for Further NCS Development 

► Arne Jacobsen, Assistant Director of Technology, Analyses and Coexistence, Norwegian Offshore Directorate

13:00 – 13:20 Offshore Platform Electrification Assessment Considering Economic and Environmental Objectives: A Multi-Objective Real Options Valuation

► Olga Noshchenko, PhD Candidate, NTNU 

13:20 – 13:40 The Open-Source Tool eCalc for Prediction of Energy and Emission from Oil and Gas Installations

► Margrete Hånes, Leader Efficiency Solutions, Efficient Drainage and Production, Equinor

13:40 – 14:00 Cabling Optimization in Wind Farms from Economic and Reliability Perspectives

► Ramon Abritta, PhD Candidate, NTNU

A2. SHARING INDUSTRY DATA: THE ROLE OF OSDU - Meeting room: Olav Tryggvason 1

Chair: Eric Monteiro, Professor, NTNU

12:30 – 12:35 Introduction

► Eric Monteiro, Professor, NTNU

12:35 – 12:40 OSDU Innovation Lab at NTNU

► Mahdis Moradi, Researcher, NTNU

12:40 – 13:00 DISKOS 2.0: Data Sharing in a New Industrial Setting

► Guttorm Vigeland, Eric Toogood, Norwegian Offshore Directorate

13:00 – 13:20 Lessons Learned from Implementing the OSDU® Data Platform

► Einar Landre, Leading IT Specialist, and Mark Thompson, Senior Advisor Reservoir Geophysics, Equinor

13:20 – 13:40 Liberating Seismic Data in OSDU with Volume Data Store: Challenges and Opportunities

► Aurelien van Welden, Head of Global Customer Success, Bluware Inc.

13:40 – 14:00 Discussion 

14:00 – 14:40 POSTER AND EXHIBITION SESSION - Conference Hall

POSTER AND EXHIBITION SESSION

PRODECS: Software for Better Project Investment Decisions

Semyon Fedorov, Researcher and Verena Hagspiel, Professor,NTNU

DigiWellData: Wired Drill Pipe Data Analytics

Behzad Elahifar, CEO DigiWellData, Professor, NTNU 

DrillComputer: Ultra-Fast Digital Twin for Drillstring Dynamics

Sigve Hovda, CEO ComputerWell, Professor, NTNU

DrillFeel: Upgraded Driller’s Chair for Increased Driller’s Situational Awareness

Ali Hashemi, Student, Stefan James Fidje, Student and Alexey Pavlov, Professor, NTNU

UPSTRIMA: AI Assistant for Oil and Gas Engineers - Turning Years Worth of Historical Data into Immediate Insights

Vlad Karen Payrazyan, CEO, Gain.Energy

Autonomous Drilling Advisory with Digital Twin and AI Technologies

Jie Cao, CTO, eDrilling 

BRU21 Academy: Digitalization Courses for the Industry

Jørn Vatn, Professor, NTNU  

NTNU GeoAI: Winners (2nd place) of the 2023 SPE Europe Energy GeoHackathon

Kheireddine Redouane, Postdoctoral Fellow, Jinjie Mao, PhD Candidate and Ashkan Jahanbani, Professor NTNU 

Workover and Inspection Requirements for Subsea Late Life Well Integrity Optimization

David Semwogerere, PhD Candidate, NTNU

Multi-Criteria Assessment of Offshore Platforms Powering Alternatives: Sustainable Approach

Olga Noshchenko, PhD Candidate, NTNU

Tired Of Waiting on Weather? How to Reduce WOW in Drilling and Completions from Floating Rigs

Dmitri Gorski, CEO, Heavelock Solutions

14:40 – 15:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS

B1. NEED FOR SPEED AND SCALE IN CCS: IMPROVED MODELING AND DIGITALIZATION FOR SUBSURFACE STORAGE - Meeting room: Olav Tryggvason 1

Chair: Ashkan Jahanbani, Associate Professor, NTNU

Co-chair: Alv-Arne Grimstad, Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF

14:40 – 14:45 Introduction

► Ashkan Jahanbani, Associate Professor, NTNU and Alv-Arne Grimstad, Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF

14:45 – 15:10 The Role of Pressure in Deployment of Gigatonne Scale CO2 Storage on the NCS

► Sarah Gasda, Research Director Computational Geosciences and Modelling, NORCE

15:10 – 15:30 Simulation of Large-Scale CO2 Storage in Saline Aquifers and Depleted Reservoirs Using Innovative Modelling Approaches

► Bamshad Nazarian, Leading Researcher Reservoir Technology CO2 Storage, Equinor

15:30 – 15:50 Use of Digital Twins in Decision-Support Tools for High-Level Screening of CO2 Storage Sites

► Arnt Grøver, Researcher, and Ole-André Roli, Senior Software Engineer, SINTEF

B2. AI, MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA-DRIVEN METHODS FOR OFFSHORE ENERGY INDUSTRY - Meeting room: Olav Tryggvason 2+3

Chair: Lars Imsland, Professor, NTNU

14:40 – 14:50 Research on Machine-Learning and Data-Driven Optimization Methods in BRU21

► Lars Imsland, Professor, NTNU

14:50 – 15:10 Navigating the Landscape of Responsible AI and Legal Compliance

► Rialda Spahic, Task Manager of Responsible AI, Equinor

15:10 – 15:30 Unsupervised Machine Learning for Well Log Depth Alignment

► Sushil Acharaya, PhD Candidate, NTNU

15:30 – 15:40 Pragmatic AI Approach for Enhancing Well Planning: How to Make AI Trustworthy While Yielding Tangible Benefits

► Vlad Karen Payrazyan, CEO, Gain.Energy

15:40 – 15:50 The AI Drilling Agent: Continuous Learning to Drill Optimum Wells

► Jie Cao, CTO, eDrilling

15:50 – 16:00 CONCLUSION OF DAY 1 - Meeting room: Olav Tryggvason 2+3

18:30 – 20:30 DINNER AT RADISSON BLU ROYAL GARDEN HOTEL (Aperitif from 18:00)

08:30 – 09:00 COFFEE & NETWORKING

09:00 – 10:15 OPENING OF DAY 2 - Auditorium EL5

► Ingrid Schjølberg, Dean of the Faculty of Infromation Technology and Electrical Engineering, NTNU

09:15 – 09:45 PLENARIES - Auditorium EL5

09:15 – 09:45 AkerBP, Here & Now

► Paula Doyle, Chief Digital Officer, AkerBP

09:45 – 10:15 The Importance of Norwegian Energy for Energy Security in Europe 

► Gunnar Lille, Managing Director, OG21- Norwegian National Technology Strategy for Oil and Gas Industry

10:15 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK

10:30 – 11:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

C1. NEED FOR SPEED AND SCALE IN CCS: IMPROVED MODELING AND DIGITALIZATION FOR SUBSURFACE STORAGE - Auditorium EL5

Chair: Ashkan Jahanbani, Associate Professor, NTNU

Co-chair: Alv-Arne Grimstad, Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF

10:30 – 10:50 Intelligent Multi-Well Placement Optimization for CO2-EOR and Storage

► Jinjie Mao, PhD Candidate, NTNU

10:50 – 11:10 Improving Injectivity in CO2 Injection Wells by Reducing Formation Damage

► Sina Madani, Product Manager, WellSoft

11:10 – 11:30 Generative Neural Network-Driven Full Waveform Inversion for CO2 Storage

► Bhargav Boddupalli, Research Scientist, SINTEF

C2. AI, MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA-DRIVEN METHODS FOR OFFSHORE ENERGY INDUSTRY - Auditorium EL6

Chair: Lars Imsland, Professor, NTNU

10:30 – 10:50 Distributed Detection and Localization of Leakages in Energy Applications

► Pierluigi Salvo Rossi, Professor, NTNU

10:50 – 11:05 Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time Series of Drilling Data

► Mehmet Cagri Altindal, PhD Candidate, NTNU

11:05 – 11:20 Extreme Efficiency: Industry-Oriented Data-Driven Optimization

► Mark Haring, Research Scientist, SINTEF

11:20 – 11:30 Closed-Loop Reservoir Management Framework Under Uncertainty Using Derivative-Free Methods 

► Muhammad Iffan Hannau, PhD candidate, NTNU

11:30 – 11:40 BREAK

11:40 – 12:20 PANEL DISCUSSION - Auditorium EL5

THE INNOVATION CHALLENGE: FROM ACADEMIA TO INDUSTRY

Participants:

► Kerstin Bach, Research Director, NorwAI SFI, NTNU

► Ying Guo, Special Advisor, Business Development Subsurface Flow Laboratory, NORCE 

► Yngve Bolstad Johansen, Principal Advisor R&D, AkerBP

► Carl Jörg Petersen, Digitalization and Technology Lead Norway, Wintershall DEA

► Egil Tjåland, Secretary General of The Norwegian Forum for Marine Minerals, NTNU

12:20 – 12:30 CONCLUDING REMARKS - Auditorium EL5

12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH  - Kjelhuset NTNU

13:30 – 14:30 BONUS PROGRAM - Auditorium EL5

DISCUSSION: FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS AND INNOVATION OPPORTUNITIES