NCS2030 – National Centre for Sustainable Subsurface Utilization of the Norwegian Shelf

National Centre for Sustainable Subsurface Utilization of

the Norwegian Continental Shelf

Acknowledgment

The author(s) acknowledge the Research Council of Norway and the industry partners of NCS2030 – RCN project number 331644 – for their support.

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Project code

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.

Viktoriya Yarushina on fluid flow

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.

New Energy and Storage Opportunities

Lithological heterogeneities in the Zechstein Group: implications for geological storage

Supervisor: Dora Marín (UiS, dora.l.restrepo@uis.no)

Geothermal energy opportunities in the Utsira High

Supervisor: Dora Marín (UiS, dora.l.restrepo@uis.no)

Compressed air storage opportunities in the Norwegian North Sea

Supervisor: Dora Marín (UiS, dora.l.restrepo@uis.no)

Lateral extension of the Rogaland sandstone in the southern North Sea: Implications for CO₂ storage or geothermal energy

Supervisor: Dora Marín (UiS, dora.l.restrepo@uis.no)

Reservoir Utilization for Energy Transition

Deformation of unconsolidated sediments and its impact on CO₂ storage

Supervisors: Viktoriya Yarushina (IFE, viktoriya.yarushina@ife.no), Reinier van Noort (IFE)

Modeling of induced seismicity during subsurface operations

Supervisors: Viktoriya Yarushina (IFE, viktoriya.yarushina@ife.no), Alexander Minakov (CEED, UiO)

Net-Zero Emission (NZE) Production

Improved oil recovery by hybrid Smart Water – surfactant solutions

Supervisors: Tina Puntervold (UiS, tina.puntervold@uis.no)

Scale formation near wellbore – experiments and simulations

Supervisors: Tina Puntervold (UiS, tina.puntervold@uis.no)

Carbonated water injection for environmental oil recovery

Supervisors: Tina Puntervold (UiS, tina.puntervold@uis.no)

Unlocking hydrocarbons from tight reservoirs

Supervisors: Tina Puntervold (UiS, tina.puntervold@uis.no)

Subsurface mineral effects from CO₂ storage

Supervisors: Tina Puntervold (UiS, tina.puntervold@uis.no)

Well stimulation for tight North Sea reservoirs

Supervisors: Aruoture Voke Omekeh (NORCE, arom@norceresearch.no)

Interactions of H₂-phase with rock/minerals and fluid phases during geological storage of H₂: Geochemical simulations (MSc)

Supervisors: Ingebret Fjelde (NORCE, Ingebret.fjelde@norceresearch.no)

Alteration of rock properties during geological storage of H₂: Literature study (BSc)

Supervisors: Ingebret Fjelde (NORCE, Ingebret.fjelde@norceresearch.no)

Injectivity of carbonated water with different CO₂ concentration into different rock types: Experimental study (MSc)

Supervisors: Ingebret Fjelde (NORCE, Ingebret.fjelde@norceresearch.no)

Rock integrity during injection of carbonated water into different rock types: Literature study (BSc)

Supervisors: Ingebret Fjelde (NORCE, Ingebret.fjelde@norceresearch.no)

Improvement of volumetric sweep efficiency during oil production using ECO-clay (environmentally friendly clay): Experimental study (MSc)

Supervisors: Ingebret Fjelde (NORCE, Ingebret.fjelde@norceresearch.no)

Optimization of reinjection of produced water into different reservoir types: Literature study (BSc)

Supervisors: Ingebret Fjelde (NORCE, Ingebret.fjelde@norceresearch.no)

Experimental work on multiphase flow and fluid production in core plugs

Supervisors: Pål Østebø Andersen (UiS, pal.andersen@uis.no), Dagfinn Sleveland (UiS, experimental)

Reactive flow modelling with presence of a catalytic reaction in porous media – an insight into hydrogen production in a porous medium

Supervisors: Reza Askarinezhad (NORCE, reas@norceresearch.no) and Arne Stavland (NORCE)

Efficient Water Management for NZE

Hybrid Smart Water EOR methods for improved water management (incl. CO₂ storage)

Supervisors: Tina Puntervold (UiS, tina.puntervold@uis.no)

Optimizing produced water reinjection for environmental oil recovery

Supervisors: Tina Puntervold (UiS, tina.puntervold@uis.no)

Wellbore and reservoir leakage detection and monitoring with downhole gauges

Supervisors: Anton Shchipanov (NORCE, ansh@norceresearch.no) or Hans Joakim Skadsem (UiS, hans.j.skadsem@uis.no)

Net-Zero effect of selected conformance improvement techniques at NCS – a preliminary study

Supervisors: Reza Askarinezhad (NORCE, reas@norceresearch.no) and Arne Stavland (NORCE)

CO₂-based foams for conformance improvement at the NCS - Also to reduce CO₂ footprint?

Supervisors: Reza Askarinezhad (NORCE, reas@norceresearch.no) and Arne Stavland (NORCE)

Laboratory study of selected water diversion techniques

Supervisors: Reza Askarinezhad (NORCE, reas@norceresearch.no) and Arne Stavland (NORCE)

Preliminary study of the LCA for various suitable conformance improvement techniques at the NCS

Supervisors: Reza Askarinezhad (NORCE, reas@norceresearch.no) and Arne Stavland (NORCE)

Use of conformance control chemicals as CO2 barrier for geological storage of CO₂

Supervisors: Reza Askarinezhad (NORCE, reas@norceresearch.no) and Arne Stavland (NORCE)

Digital Subsurface for Improved Decisions

Core images and ML tools in the public and private repositories for rock property estimation

Supervisors: Rong Chunming (IDE/UIS, chunming.rong@uis.no) and Nan Zhang (IDE/UIS)

Illustrasjonsbilde vitenskapelig artikkel. Foto: Shutterstock

Management team

Alejandro Escalona Varela

Instituttleder

51832259

Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy Resources

Ying Guo

Prosjektleder

Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy Resources

Christian Dye

Innovation Director

IFE

Zachary Paul Alcorn

R&D Director

University of Bergen

Siv Marie Åsen

Rådgiver

51831799

Faculty of Science and Technology
Faculty Administration TN
Kontor for forskningsadministrative tjenester

Kjersti Riiber

Rådgiver

51834511

Faculty of Science and Technology
Faculty Administration TN

Rafiee is leading the technical committee

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

Portrett av Mohsen Rafiee — Mohsen Rafiee. Photo: Private

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

Stéphane Polteau

Research Scientist

IFE

Viktoriya Yarushina

Department Head

IFE

Tina Puntervold

Førsteamanuensis

51832213

Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy Resources

Ying Guo

Special Adviser

NORCE

Geir Evensen

Chief Scientist

NORCE

Torfinn Harding

Professor

51831674

EOJ 244

UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance

Lisa Jean Watson

Førsteamanuensis

51832284

Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy Resources

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

Partners

NCS2030 webinar series

How do we contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals?

Research

NCS2030 theses

Management team

Rafiee is leading the technical committee

Work package leaders

Our researchers

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