BRU21 Conference 2024

BRU21 Conference 2024 

The energy transition is far from simple. The last few years demonstrated that we need a sustainable but also secure and affordable energy supply. This requires novel ways of operating the energy infrastructure on the Norwegian Continental Shelf that minimizes CO2 emissions.

The complexity of new energy systems, environmental uncertainties, and market volatility are the challenges we need to solve. Digital and automation technologies play a central role in tackling these challenges.

These are the topics of the 3rd BRU21 conference, which will be held in Trondheim on June 3rd and 4th. The conference is an arena for academic and industrial experts to share their latest achievements and discuss future research challenges.

 


Program 2024

BRU21 Conference 2024 program

 


DAY 1 June 3: Radisson Blu Royal Garden Hotel Trondheim


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:

12:30 – 14:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS:


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


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

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

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

14:40 – 15:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS


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


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

Day1


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)


 

DAY 2 June 4: NTNU Gløshaugen, Gamle Elektro

How to get to Gløshaugen


08:30 – 09:00 COFFEE & NETWORKING


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

► Ingrid Schjølberg, Dean of the Faculty of Information 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

10:30 – 11:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS


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


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

Day 2


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


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Anders Opedal: "I was impressed by the BRU21 program!"


Knut Sandvik on Aker BP cooperation with BRU21


Aker BP Asset Finance Managers visit BRU21


Previous Conferences

BRU21 Conference 2023


BRU21 Conference 2022


 


Contact

For questions related to registration, payment or cancellations, please contact:

bru21@konferanser.ntnu.no