Department of Energy Resources (TN-IER): Recent submissions
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Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Power-Law Fluids in a Fontan Geometry
(Master thesis, 2023)Numerical Modeling can provide insight and improve processes in human health. This masters thesis is a Python implementation of the lattice Boltzmann method in two dimensions to model flows related to the Fontan cardiac ... -
Holistic 3D Model of an Urban Area in Norway: An Integration of Geophysical, Geotechnical, Remote Sensing, and Geological Methods
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Understanding the distribution and characterization of natural and non-natural materials on the surface and near-subsurface is important for the development of infrastructure projects. This may be a challenge in highly ... -
A Federated Computational Workflow for Analysis of DISKOS Digital Palynological Slides.
(Master thesis, 2023)A novel federated computational workflow for analyzing digital palynological slide images is implemented in this thesis. The slide data files, typically exceeding 3GB, present significant data mobility and computation ... -
Analysis of wind and response measurement data from a suspension bridge
(Master thesis, 2023)The Lysefjord Bridge is a suspension bridge at the entrance to the Lysefjord in south-western Norway at which full-scale measurements on wind conditions and bridge response are collected using anemometers and accelerometers. ... -
3D Processing, Imaging and Interpretation of Dense Sub Bottom Profile Data Acquired in Avaldsnes and Hafrsfjord
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis addresses the challenges associated with conducting archaeological seismic surveys in shallow water and nearshore environments, focusing on the effects of dynamic elements such as wind, tide, and waves. These ... -
Lithological Heterogeneities in the Zechstein Group: Compressed Air Energy Storage Opportunities in Salt Caverns
(Master thesis, 2023)Ensuring a sustainable future necessitates the adoption of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar energy. However, these energy sources are inherently intermittent, which emphasizes the need for effective energy ... -
Comparing hydro- and wind electricity sources in Norway.
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)The motivation for this study was to get a better understanding of the two main power production methods, as more and more wind power plants are appearing in Norway, alongside a rise in the export of electricity overseas. This ... -
Effective Management of Hybrid Workloads in Public and Private Cloud Platforms
(Master thesis, 2023)As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid cloud architectures to meet their diverse computing needs, managing workloads across on-premises and on multiple cloud environments has become a critical challenge. This thesis ... -
Machine learning based seismic classification for facies prediction
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis explores the performance of machine learning (ML) methods for predicting facies from seismic attributes for 2D and 3D datasets. It focuses on building, training, and testing four supervised methods: Logistic ... -
Design & Implementation of MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) Platform in Cloud Environment
(Master thesis, 2023)Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) concept has emerged basically to decode the shortcomings of traditional Machine Learning (ML) life cycle management in industrial applications. The incorporation of Continuous Integration ... -
Testing the impact of standard geomodelling techniques
(Master thesis, 2023)Geomodelling is an important tool in the oil and gas industry, it gives a visual 3D representation of the subsurface. In order to construct a 3D representation of the subsurface a comprehensive building process is required, ... -
Hydrological geological catalogue of Mars
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Microplastic occurrence in selected sediments samples in Rogaland – a pilot study
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Microplastic pollution is of growing concern and is today one of the most important problems of the Earth. When microplastic is release into the environment it can have major impact on both humans and other living being. ... -
Operatør bias i punkttelling
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Tynnslip punktelling er en metode for å finne mineral sammensetningen til en bergart. Ulike feil kan påvirke resultatet. Målet med studien er å studere effekten av operatør bias av punkttelling resultater. Operatør bias ... -
PTA-metrics for time-lapse analysis of well performance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Monitoring of a well and the surrounding reservoir performances is a crucial component in evaluating on-going and planning future well and field operations. This is carried out at all stages of a well life-span: from ... -
A natural Hessian approximation for ensemble based optimization
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)A key challenge in reservoir management and other fields of engineering involves optimizing a nonlinear function iteratively. Due to the lack of available gradients in commercial reservoir simulators the attention over the ... -
Compositional variation of the Zechstein Group in the Norwegian North sea: Implications for underground storage in salt caverns
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Halite beds in the upper Permian Zechstein Group represent an opportunity for the future development of underground storage caverns. However, geological factors such as lithological heterogeneities, cap rock characteristics ... -
Adaptive machine learning-based surrogate modeling to accelerate PDE-constrained optimization in enhanced oil recovery
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In this contribution, we develop an efficient surrogate modeling framework for simulation-based optimization of enhanced oil recovery, where we particularly focus on polymer flooding. The computational approach is based ... -
Polysulphate: A New Enhanced Oil Recovery Additive to Maximize the Oil Recovery From Carbonate Reservoirs at High Temperature
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Seawater (SW) injection is an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) success in the North Sea carbonate reservoirs due to wettability alteration toward a more water-wet state. This process is triggered by the difference in composition ... -
Prediction of permeability of tight sandstones from mercury injection capillary pressure tests assisted by a machine-learning approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)