BRU21 Research

BRU21 Research

BRU21 research is focused on value creation for the the offshore energy industry. It couples NTNU expertise in digital and offshore energy (including oil and gas) domains with the expertise and data from program’s industrial partners to create novel digital and automation technologies with a business impact. The research program consists of PhD and PostDoc projects organized in six program areas. NTNU digital expertise is utilized across the program areas and projects. The BRU21 project portfolio consists of 46 PhD, PostDoc and Researcher projects.

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BRU21 Program Areas

BRU21 Program Areas

Exploration efficiency

Exploration efficiency

Development of fully- or partly automated methods, data-driven methods like machine or deep learning, in combination with rapidly increasing computational power open novel opportunities for the geoscience community.

Field development and economics

The objective of this research area is to improve and disrupt current field design workflows by developing, studying and implementing novel technical and economic valuation solutions that allow one to compute and flag optimum ways of exploiting hydrocarbons based on digital tools and methods.

Drilling and well

BRU21 aims to develop systems and methods which result in reduced well construction time and improved safety. The long term goal is to optimize the drilling process by achieving a high degree of autonomy.

Reservoir management and production optimization

BRU21 aims to develop computational tools and strategies to optimize production and manage uncertainty on both longer and shorter horizons.

Operations, maintenance, safety and security

Important aspects are predictive maintenance/real-time monitoring of asset condition, Big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML), as well as “physical” achievements like the use of drones and other autonomous tools.

New business and operational models

What are the organizational and technological preconditions for succeeding with digital transformation and the application of new business and operational models, and how can such change processes be managed?

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Digital transformation and organizational challenges

Program area: New business and operational models

Professor Per Morten Schiefloe

The necessity of digital transformation is widely acknowledged throughout the oil and gas industry.

 

Jørn Vatn presents a projects from one of PhD candidates

Program area: Operations, maintenance, safety and security

Professor Jørn Vatn

PhD Candidate Ewa Laskowska

Reliability of safety instrumented systems is crucial for safe operation. SINTEF and NTNU have over the years together with the industry developed method and data handbooks to support safety demonstrations, that is the so-called SIL analyses.