• Reservoir characterization of the Lower Cretaceous clastic wedges in the southwestern Barents Sea using seismic analysis and rock physics diagnostic 

      Iqbal, Javed (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-17)
      The southwestern Barents Sea is an underexplored area of the Norwegian continental shelf, with a few discoveries in Triassic and Jurassic reservoirs. Recently drilled exploration wells on the Loppa High and the surrounding ...
    • Reservoir Characterization of the Skagerrak Formation 

      Byberg, Ingrid (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06)
      A petrophyscial evaluation has been generated for three wells penetrating the Skagerrak Formation in the Sleip ner Øst field, the Gungne field, and the Loke field in the Central North Sea, Figure 5 - 1. ...
    • Reservoir characterization of the Snorre Field 

      Gjestvang, Jørgen (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-15)
      The fluvial sandstone in the Snorre field consists of braided to meander streams deposited in arid and in humid climate that show a clear differences in the sedimentology and reservoir properties, especially the silt content ...
    • Reservoir characterization through numerical models 

      Roscher, Hans Marius (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-06-16)
      Numerical models have been generated for two DST’s run in the Ile and Tilje formations in the exploration wells 6406/2-2 and 6406/2-4SR in the Lavrans field located in the mid-Norwegian sea at Haltenbanken. DST 2 in well ...
    • Reservoir potential in the Klappmyss Formation, Barents Sea 

      Bjørheim, Maren (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2012;, Master thesis, 2012-06)
      By May 2012 there are a total of 91 exploration and appraisal wells in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea, and more than 300 000 km of seismic reflection data. Moreover, estimation from Norwegian Petroleum Directorate ...
    • Reservoir wetting in sandstone reservoirs, adsorption of polar basic oil components onto quartz and feldspar minerals. 

      Abdullah, Noria (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-15)
      For more than a decade the mechanism behind flooding with low salinity water have been studied and well documented as increased oil recovery method (EOR) in sandstone reservoirs. Recently Austad et. al. proposed a new ...
    • Retention of polar oil components in low salinity water flooding 

      Sokama-Neuyam, Yen Adams (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2013;, Master thesis, 2013-06-14)
      The influence of brine chemistry, salinity and composition on the retention of polar oil components onto reservoir rock mineral surface in relation to low salinity water flooding (LSWF) was studied and evaluated in this ...
    • Review of completion technologies 

      Løge, Snorre (Master thesis, 2015-06)
      It used to be that completion expenditures were a modest proportion of the total capital costs and field development time. Today the wells have become exponentially challenging along with new field development discoveries. ...
    • Rheological characterization of borate crosslinked fluids using oscillatory measurements 

      Edy, I Ketut Oscar (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2010;, Master thesis, 2010)
      Fracturing fluid has a very important role in hydraulic fracturing treatment. Viscosity of hydraulic fracturing fluid affects transporting, suspending, and deposition of proppant, as well as flow back after treatment. ...
    • Rheological evaluation of a sodium silicate gel for water management in mature oilfields 

      Pham, Lieu Thuy (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2013;, Master thesis, 2013)
      Excess water production is a common problem in mature and hydrocarbon rate declining oil and gas fields. Increased water production rates reduce oil and gas production, increase the cost related with fluid lifting, handling ...
    • Rift segmentation and domain architecture of Lofoten-Vesterålen margin, offshore Norway 

      Tasrianto, Riki (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2013;, Master thesis, 2013-06-17)
      The Lofoten-Vesterålen margin (LVM) is located in the offshore northern Norway. It is the least explored and understood margin within the Norwegian passive margin due to the authority’s restriction, which closed this margin ...
    • Rift Segmentation: structural mapping of syn-rift successions between the Kerpini-Tsivlos and Mamoussia-Pirgaki Faults, Greece 

      Oppedal, Eirik (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-15)
      The Corinth Rift of Central Greece is currently active in the Gulf of Corinth. A series of rotated fault blocks from the early rift stages are preserved onshore in the southern part of the rift. These are well-exposed in ...
    • Rig integrated managed pressure drilling 

      Midtun, Trine Lillenes (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-06-05)
      The complexity and challenges related to drilling of wells shows an increasing trend, and there is a demand for new technology and/or methods. Managed pressure drilling (MPD) is gaining more and more attention on the market, ...
    • Riserless drilling (managed pressure drilling) 

      Khan, Ahsan (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2012;, Master thesis, 2012)
      There are several problems which an oil and gas industry is facing. These problems can be solved by riserless drilling method which comes under managed pressure drilling umbrella. The most important problem is increasing ...
    • Riserless Drilling Systems 

      Myhre, Erlend (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2011;, Master thesis, 2011-06-14)
      As the oil and gas recoverables are getting more inaccessible and harder to procure, the worlds demand for petroleum resources are constantly increasing. This entails the oil industry to expose themselves towards more ...
    • Risk based cost and duration estimation of permanent plug and abandonment operation in subsea exploration wells 

      Raksagati, Sanggi (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2012;, Master thesis, 2012)
      World wide there are thousands of subsea wells to be abandoned, including the subsea wells in the North Sea. The operation to abandon a well is commonly known as Plug and Abandonment or P&A. Traditionally for offshore ...
    • Risk based cost and duration estimation of well operations 

      Kullawan, Kanokwan (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2012;, Master thesis, 2012)
      Due to high uncertainties and the cost intensive nature of well operations, accurate forecast of well cost and duration is one of the main requirements for writing an AFE and supporting decision making processes. Traditionally, ...
    • Rock physics models for Cenozoic siliciclastic sediments in the North Sea 

      Bilalova, Adelya (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 ...
    • ROP modelling and analysis 

      Husvæg, Morten Adamsen (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-06-11)
      A total of six techniques are developed to model ROP for a new well. The techniques attain coefficients or specific values from a close-by already drilled well. Using these and drilling parameters, the proposed method ...
    • ROP optimization and modelling in directional drilling process 

      Kuznetcov, Artem (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-01)
      Rate of penetration (ROP) is one of the most critical parameters affecting virtually all drilling characteristics including technical, operational, economical, safety and other aspects of it. ROP evaluation may provide ...