
National Centre for Sustainable Subsurface Utilization of
the Norwegian Continental Shelf
The author(s) acknowledge the Research Council of Norway and the industry partners of NCS2030 – RCN project number 331644 – for their support.
When you register results and dissemination in the CRIStin database related to the NCS2030 centre, please make sure to use project code 331644 and source RCN (Forskningsrådet).
NCS2030 webinar series
The last Wednesday every month, we present research from NCS2030 in our webinar series. The aim is to highlight activities and research at NCS2030.
How do we contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals?
Affordable and clean energy, climate action and education are important contributions from NCS2030.

NCS2030 contributes to several UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) including SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy) by building new competence and research solutions for the Sustainable Subsurface Value Chain, SDG 13 (climate action) by providing solutions for a NZE society by 2050; SDG 4 (education) by educating the new generation of professionals for the energy transition; and also SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth); SDG 9 (industry, innovation, and infrastructure) by building competence for new business opportunities; SDG 12 (responsible consumption and production) by providing solutions for low-emission and effective utilization of the subsurface; SDG 14 (life below water) by safe subsurface storage of CO2/H2 and reduced water discharge to sea; and SDG 5 (gender equality) by setting the ambitious goal that at least 40% of center staff will be female.
Research
NCS2030 theses
Master theses related to the National Centre for Sustainable Subsurface Utilization of the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Management team
Rafiee is leading the technical committee
Mohsen Rafiee from Wintershall Dea is to lead the technical committee in NCS2030.

Mohsen Rafiee got elected leader of the Technical Committee (TC) in NCS2030. The election was held in the first TC meeting in the Centre 21st October.
Rafiee finished undergraduate study in Reservoir Engineering from Petroleum University of Technology in Iran. After that he graduated as Master of Science in Reservoir Engineering from Institut Français du Pétrole in Rueil-Malmaison Paris and finally he become Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from TU Bergakademie Freiberg focusing on reservoir simulation, history matching and uncertainty analysis.
He worked one year with R&D of Total S.A. as reservoir simulation engineer (Pau-France), four years as research assistant at TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Freiberg-Germany), three years with DBI German institute of fuel as a reservoir engineer on gas storage reservoir (Freiberg-Germany). After that he has worked for Wintershall in Kassel, Germany, and currently he works at Wintershall Dea in Stavanger.
Rafiee's expertise areas: Conventional and unconventional oil and gas reservoirs, advanced numerical and analytical reservoir studies, field optimization, development planning, economic evaluation, production forecasting and reserve estimation, EOR/IOR techniques including sweep conformance, ASP and water flooding, SAGD and electromagnetic heating in both sand stone and naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs.
Work package leaders
Our researchers
More than 70 researchers are connected to NCS2030.

Atle Blomgren | NORCE | |
Aksel Hiorth | UiS | |
Aleksandr Mamonov | UiS | |
Alejandro Escalona | UiS | |
Alexander Krivokapic | IFE | |
Andreas Stordal | NORCE | |
Aojie Hong | UiS | |
Arild Lohne | NORCE | |
Arne Graue | UiB | |
Arne Stavland | NORCE | |
Auroture V. Omekeh | NORCE | |
Børre Jacob Antonsen | IFE | |
Carita Augustsson | UiS | |
Ceren J. Ahi | NORCE | |
Christian Dye | IFE | |
Chunming Rong | UiS | |
Dora Marín | UiS | |
Geir Evensen | NORCE | |
Hilde Halsøy | UiB | |
Hongliang Wang | IFE | |
Ingebret Fjelde | NORCE | |
Ivar Sandø | NORCE | |
John Zuta | NORCE | |
Jon T. Selvik | UiS | |
K. A. Espegren | IFE | |
Kjersti Eikrem | NORCE | |
Kristian Fossum | NORCE | |
Kristina Haaskjold | IFE | |
Laura Ferrando-Climent | IFE | |
Liv Stavsetra | IFE | |
Magnus Wangen | IFE | |
Mari Lyseid Authen | IFE | |
Mario Silva | IFE | |
Nan Zhang | UiS | |
Nestor Cardozo | UiS | |
Olaf Skjæraasen | IFE | |
Pål Ø. Andersen | UiS | |
Randi Valestrand | NORCE | |
Raoof Gholami | UiS | |
Reidar Bratvold | UiS | |
Reidar Korsnes | UiS | |
Reinier van Noort | IFE | |
Reza Askarinezhad | NORCE | |
Sissel O. Viig | IFE | |
Siv Marie Åsen | UiS | |
Skule Strand | UiS | |
Stéphane Polteau | IFE | |
T. Nordlander | IFE | |
Tina Puntervold | UiS | |
Torfinn Harding | UiS | |
Trond Mannseth | NORCE | |
Tuhin Bhakta | NORCE | |
Udo Zimmermann | UiS | |
Viktoriya Yarushina | IFE | |
Wiktor Weibull | UiS | |
Xiaodong Luo | NORCE | |
Ying Guo | NORCE | |
Zachary Alcorn | UiB |
Related articles
Understanding the initial wettability of reservoirs
Panagiotis Aslanidis defended his thesis on wettability for core analysis. The purpose of his research was to link reser...
Twinning to Sustainable Energy Transition (Twinn2SET)
The European Union is facing a pressing challenge to transition into a carbon neutral economy by 2050. Researchers from ...
Kick-off for new energy transition project
The European Union is facing a pressing challenge to transition into a carbon neutral economy by 2050. Researchers from ...
Defended his thesis on reservoir optimization
Micheal B. Oguntola has studied optimization and modelling of enhanced oil recovery injection strategies in his PhD proj...
Defining Future Subsurface Education Needs in Collaboration with the Energy Industry
This project (SUBSET) aims to increase the relevance of subsurface course content to actual needs in the energy indust...
Subsurface Utilization for Renewable Energy
The Subsurface Utilisation and Renewable Energy group addresses the latest issues related to the energy transition, unde...
New centre for sustainable subsurface utilization
University of Stavanger with partners have been awarded the National Centre for Sustainable Utilization of Energy Resour...
Won their group in Drillbotics
Five UiS students made it all the way to the top in their group in the Drillbotics contest.
Looking towards 8 years of subsurface research
University of Stavanger, NORCE, IFE and University of Bergen are partners in an application for a new petrosenter, focus...
UiS team in the PetroBowl finals
Five petroleum engineering students from University of Stavanger reached the finals in the prestigous PetroBowl contest.
Top students win industry awards
Repsol, IKM Acona and Vår Energi awarded a total of nine prizes and NOK 275,000 to bachelor and master students at UiS.
New possibilities for geosciences at UiS
The Department of Energy Resources at UiS is investing in new equipment and new research areas within geotechnics and ge...
Interdisciplinary centre for Hydrogen Safety and Governance (HySAGO)
The vision for HySAGO is to establish a globally recognised centre for groundbreaking interdisciplinary research on the ...
IOR NORWAY 2021
The 7th IOR NORWAY is arranged 26-28 April 2021. The digital event will be co-organized with the 14th International Symp...
Awards to the best petroleum students
The best first year master students in petroleum geosciences and petroleum engineering got a well-deserved Christmas pre...
Software Donations
Research and education today cannot be conducted without using state of the art software products. For an academic insti...
Structural Geology
Structural Geology is the study of tectonic deformation. We focus on the deformation of the upper crust and how it affec...
Provenance Studies
Provenance research tracks the transport routes of sediment. Such research is done for various reasons, such as paleogeo...
Light detection and ranging
Light detection and ranging (lidar) research focus on the planning and collection of lidar data as well as the processin...
Geophysics
Geophysics uses measurements of physical quantities to make inferences about the geological properties of the Earth and ...
Geographic Information Systems
Geographic information science (GIS) research focuses on the analysis of spatial relationships, defining uncertainty, an...
Decision and data analytics
Value can only be created through our decisions. Uncertainty is inseparable from all significant decisions. You can’t ma...
Geosciences
Geosciences is an important expertise are within the energy sector, environment, construction among others.
Department of Energy Resources
The Department of Energy Resources is a strong academic environment with international top-level research and education.
IOR 2020 webinar summed up
55 people logged in to the IOR NORWAY webinar to listen to four of the speakers from the original conference programme.
Energy Engineering and Geoscience - PhD
Energy Engineering and Geoscience is a subfield within the doctoral programme in Science and Technology at UiS. The subf...
Theme 2: Reservoir characterisation to improve volumetric sweep
Theme 2 works with the integration of field data such as pressure, temperature, seismic data, tracer data, geophysical d...
The National IOR Centre of Norway
The National IOR Centre provides solutions for improved oil recovery on the Norwegian continental shelf through academic...
Ongoing projects – The National IOR Centre of Norway
The National IOR Centre provides solutions for improved oil recovery on the Norwegian continental shelf through academic...
Finished projects – The National IOR Centre of Norway
The Centre provides solutions for improved oil recovery on the Norwegian continental shelf through academic excellence a...
IOR NORWAY 2018 summed up
270 participants caught up on the newest in IOR research at this year's big IOR event at University of Stavanger.
IOR NORWAY 2019 summed up
The sixth annual conference hosted by The National IOR Centre of Norway is history. Hopefully the participants got a ref...
IOR NORWAY 2017
Click on the links below for abstracts or PDFs of the presentations from IOR NORWAY 2017.