GEOSYN - Geothermal Synergy
The project improves industrial energy efficiency by integrating geothermal energy with high-temperature heat pumps and heat-driven cooling systems, ensuring environmental sustainability and operational flexibility.
Drilling and wells
SINTEF combines theoretical work with laboratory experiments and field experience, and focuses on making results from the work available for operational team, in order to contribute to faster, safer and cheaper drilling and well operations while also caring for the long term integrity of the wells.
Contact person
Expertise
- 3D Measurements and Analysis
- Additive, subtractive and hybrid production
- Borehole stability
- Chemical engineering unit operations and process plants
- Direct Electric Heating of pipelines (DEH)
- Electrical energy conversion
- Formation as a self-sealing barrier
- Formation Physics
- Geomechanics for CCS
- Geophysics
- Heat Exchange
- Heat to Power Conversion
- Hydraulic fracturing
- Injectivity
- Instrumentation for harsh environment
- Logging through casing
- Materials and drilling technology
- Models and tools for rock behaviour
- Plugging materials
- Sand and chalk production
- Shale rock physics
- Sub sea factory
- Well Integrity
Projects
LINCCS: Carbon Links
Carbon Links (LINCCS) - Linking large-scale, cost-effective, permanent offshore storage across the value chain.
Clock test / Electronics development
The objective of the project is to assist in development of cost-effective tools for measurement of flow rate in oil wells, and hence get improved utilization of wells.
Laboratories
News
Viewpoints
Artificial geysers can compensate for our mineral shortages
By imitating nature, it may be possible to recover seabed minerals by extracting hot water from the Earth’s crust. We can harvest green energy and be sensitive to the environment – all at the same time.
This wheel gave the Berling field lower CO2 emissions and saved the construction project for several hundred million NOK
Research on «ice plugs» in pipes gave the oil company OMV the confidence to omit heating cables.
Viewpoints
Simulation model may reduce the climate footprint of oil production
Future offshore oil and gas fields are most likely to be “satellite developments” that are less expensive and emit less greenhouse gases than other fields because they do not require new production platforms. An innovative Norwegian computational...