Research
BRU21 Research
BRU21 Research
BRU21 research is focused on value creation for the the offshore energy industry. It couples NTNU expertise in digital and petroleum domains with 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 corresponding to the oil and gas value chain. NTNU digital expertise is utilized across the program areas and projects.
BRU21 Program Areas
→ Exploration efficiency: Prototyping future geoscience data organization and analytics tools for improved exploration workflows
→ Field development and economics: 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: Develop systems and methods which result in reduced well construction time and improved safety and optimize the drilling process by achieving a high degree of autonomy.
→ Reservoir management and production optimization: Develop computational tools and strategies to optimize production and manage uncertainty on both longer and shorter horizons.
→ Operations, maintenance, safety and security: Includes predictive maintenance/real-time monitoring of asset condition, with application of big data analytics and artificial intelligence/machine learning as well as “physical” achievements like use of drones and other autonomous tools.
→ New business and operational models: Design optimal work processes to adapt to increased use of digital technologies, searching for new ways to exploit digital technologies for more effective work processes, or taking part in the growth of new, innovative business ecosystems.
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Digital expertise
NTNU’s digital and automation expertise forms a digital foundation for all the technical areas. It includes expertise in Computer and Data Science (Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Cybernetics), Cybernetics (Automatic control, Autonomy and Robotics, Data-driven and physics-based modelling, Decision support systems), (Real-time) Optimization (Model-based, Data-driven, Hybrid, Stochastic, Real options), Large-Scale Systems (Modelling, Model updates, Optimization), Digital Safety and Security (Cyber security, Safety of instrumented systems), People, Organization and Economics (Organization for digital transition, Integrated digitalized operations, Decision making under uncertainty).
BRU21 Project portfolio
BRU21 projects portfolio is based on concrete use-cases from the industrial partners as well as on related fundamental research challenges formulated by the NTNU academic team. This portfolio together with BRU21 collaboration, innovation and training activities constitute the BRU21 ecosystem
BRU21 Program Areas
BRU21 Program Areas
Exploration efficiency
Exploration efficiency
Field development and economics
Drilling and well
Reservoir management and production optimization
Operations, maintenance, safety and security
New business and operational models
Current Projects
Current Projects
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.