Master's theses (TN-IPT 2007-2017)
Masteroppgaver i Petroleumsteknologi
Recent Submissions
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Offshore ledelse og endring: Hvordan støtte utvikling og implementering av ISSOW (integrated safe system of work)
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-12)Som operatør av Ekofisk feltet har ConocoPhillips Norge kontinuerlig jobbet med å redusere sannsynligheten for hendelser med storulykkes potensial. Innen næringen har det vært fokus på å arbeide med å redusere storulykkesrisiko ... -
Application of Multilateral Wells as an alternative solution for costs optimization
(UIS-TN-IEP/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06)Field completion techniques have progressed over the last twenty years. Today, different methods of well drilling can reduce total costs spent on single well construction. Multilateral wells is the primary example of ... -
MPD: Simulation and Control Systems
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2011;, Master thesis, 2011-06)Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) has solved many conventional drilling problems. It has given the access to the reservoirs where conventional drilling was facing difficulties. The tight pressure windows in depleted reservoirs, ... -
Adaptive Observer Design for Linear Hyperbolic System in Managed Pressure Drilling
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06)Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) is a drilling technology that has been developed to manage and control the downhole pressure in the well in order to minimize drilling-related problems. This technology uses a pressurized ... -
Interpretation of reactive flow in chalk flooded with MgCl2 - A simulation study
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Simulation study of co-current spontaneous imbibition
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IEP/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-08-27)Spontaneous imbibition is the main driving mechanism for obtaining high recovery from the naturally fractured reservoirs with low permeable matrix. The present thesis presents the results of a simulation study of ... -
Micro- and nano-analyses of fracture-filling after flooding on-shore chalk with different IOR fluids
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IER/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06-22)Water injection into the Ekofisk-reservoir was introduced in 1987 to enhance oil recovery (EOR) dissolution and precipitation by exposing chalk to various brines at reservoir conditions, which further increased deformation ... -
Automated MPD level in the oil and gas industry and development possibility
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-06)Automation is introduced to the industrial field long time ago, but still in its first steps in the oil and gas industry. There are many reasons led to this slow of automation in this industry. These reasons related to the ... -
MWCNT and SiO2 Nanoparticle Enhanced Drilling Fluid Formulation and Characterization: Experimental and Simulation studies
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2018-02-12)In recent years the application of nanotechnology has shown impressive results in improving the performance of drilling fluid, enhanced oil recovery and in cement. However, the research and development based on nanotechnology ... -
The Cook Formation Reservoir Architecture, Stratigraphy and Paleogeography in the Tampen Spur Area
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-12-19)This thesis describes the development of the prograding and aggrading, Lower Jurassic Cook Formation across Knarr Field and Garantiana discovery located in the Tampen Spur area in the Northern North Sea. 11 facies, 5 ... -
Subsurface investigation in the Gulf of Corinth (GoC), Greece
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-08-11)Corinth Rift is an excellent rift laboratory to study the rift processes occurring during the early and late stages of continental extension due to exposure of a series of half-graben structures at the southern margin. ... -
High-resolution heavy mineral studies on “black sands” from the Nama Group (Fish River Subgroup) in Namibia – Part II.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-07)“Black sands” from a presumed heavy mineral placer of the Nama Group in Namibia will be studied in detail. The samples for this thesis are collected from various outcrops belonging to the Fish River Subgroup in the Nababis ... -
Geologic mapping and investigation into tectonic control on deposition. A case study of the Doumena Fault Block, Greece.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-29)The Doumena Fault Block is located onshore in the southern part of the Gulf of Corinth Rift system. The rift system consists of several east – west oriented half grabens that offers an excellent opportunity to study rotated ... -
High-resolution heavy mineral stratigraphy of selected Precambrian successions underlying the Nama Group in Namibia
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-07-13)This project research the provenance of Precambrian formations: Kuibis Formation, Holgat Formation, Numees Formation, Blaubeker Formation, Matchless Amphibolite, Aubures Formation, and Klein Aub Formation from Namibia. The ... -
Converted wave imaging and velocity analysis using elastic reverse-time migration
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-22)Along the continuous evolution of exploration seismology, the main objective has been producing better subsurface seismic images that lead to lower risk exploration and enhanced production. The unique characteristics of ... -
Rock physics models for Cenozoic siliciclastic sediments in the North Sea
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06)The Norwegian North Sea is a huge and mature hydrocarbon province which has been mapped extensively since the discovery of oil and gas in the late 1960s. There is a numerous amount of data that is available for companies ... -
Provenance of the Upper Cretaceous Lange-Lysing deep-marine sandstone in the Norwegian Sea: with implication for reservoir quality.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06)The provenance and reservoir properties of Upper Cretaceous Lange-Lysing sandstone in the Norwegian Sea have been determined by using integrated whole-rock geochemical, petrographic and detrital zircon U-Pb age dating by ... -
An Integrated Study of the Cretaceous Sequence Stratigraphic Development in the Northern Stord Basin, North Sea, Using 3D and 2D Seismic Data and Wells
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-21)The Cretaceous interval of the northern Stord Basin is under-studied stratigraphic successions due to its minor significance for the oil and gas industry. Therefore, the available subsurface data is limited, especially ... -
High-resolution heavy mineral studies on “black sands” from the Nama Group (Fish River Subgroup) in Namibia – Part I
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-07)A detailed high-resolution study is applied on selected samples to decipher the provenance for these deposits. The samples analysed in the project are placer deposits (“black sands”) from the Nama Group (Fish River Subgroup) ... -
3D reconstruction of a normal fault zone at sub-seismic scale: A trenching study of a strand of the active Baza fault, Central Betic Cordillera, south central Spain
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06)Faults are rarely a discrete two-dimensional surface, but a three dimensional volume with a complex internal structure. Faults are commonly encountered in reservoirs and evaluated for their ability to act as a fluid flow ...
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