Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (TN-IER)
Recent Submissions
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Water Weakening of Artificially Fractured Chalk, Fracture Modification and Mineral Precipitation during Water Injection—An Experimental Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05)This experiment was designed to study the water-weakening effect of artificially fractured chalk caused by the injection of different compositions of brines under reservoir conditions replicating giant hydrocarbon reservoirs ... -
An Analytical TOOLBOX for the Characterization of Chalks and Other Fine-Grained Rock Types within Enhanced Oil Recovery Research and Its Application—A Guideline
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-06)Analyses of fine-grained rocks like shales, cherts, and specifically chalk are challenging with regards to spatial resolution. We propose a “toolbox” to understand mineralogical alteration in chalk, especially those induced ... -
Flow behavior of thermo-thickening associative polymers in porous media: effects of associative content, salinity, time, velocity, and temperature
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Above a critical temperature, thermo-thickening associative polymers (TAPs) have a superior ability to decrease the mobility of the water phase, compared to traditional polymers for enhanced oil recovery. The ability to ... -
Prediction of Oil Recovery Factor in Stratified Reservoirs after Immiscible Water-Alternating-Gas Injection based on PSO-, GSA-, GWO-, and GA-LSSVM
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In this study, we solve the challenge of predicting oil recovery factor (RF) in layered heterogeneous reservoirs after 1.5 pore volumes of water-, gas- or water-alternating-gas (WAG) injection. A dataset of ~2500 reservoir ... -
High-Resolution Topographic and Chemical Surface Imaging of Chalk for Oil Recovery Improvement Applications
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)Chalk is a very fine-grained carbonate and can accommodate high porosity which is a key characteristic for high-quality hydrocarbon reservoirs. A standard procedure within Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) is seawater-injection ... -
Characteristic forced and spontaneous imbibition behavior in strongly water-wet sandstones based on experiments and simulation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05)Forced and spontaneous imbibition of water is performed to displace oil from strongly water-wet Gray Berea (~130 mD) and Bentheimer (~1900 mD) sandstone core plugs. Two nonpolar oils (n-heptane and Marcol-82) were used as ... -
Load mitigation method for wind turbines during emergency shutdowns
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)Wind turbines experience countless shutdowns during their lifetimes. A shutdown is a transient process characterised by a pitch-to-feather manoeuvre of three blades. Such a pitch manoeuvre is often collective, open-loop, ... -
Prediction of Oil Recovery Factor in Stratified Reservoirs after Immiscible Water-Alternating-Gas Injection based on PSO-, GSA-, GWO-, and GA-LSSVM
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-01)In this study, we solve the challenge of predicting oil recovery factor (RF) in layered heterogeneous reservoirs after 1.5 pore volumes of water-, gas- or water-alternating-gas (WAG) injection. A dataset of ~2500 reservoir ... -
Application of machine learning to assess the value of information in polymer flooding
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12)In this work, we provide a more consistent alternative for performing value of information (VOI) analyses to address sequential decision problems in reservoir management and generate insights on the process of reservoir ... -
The Influence of Adsorption Layer Thickness and Pore Geometry on Gas Production from Tight Compressible Shales
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12)In tight shales, gas is stored in both free and adsorbed form. A one-dimensional model is derived for shale gas production by pressure depletion where the adsorbed layer thickness is of similar magnitude as the pore radius ... -
A Visual Investigation of CO2 Convective Mixing in Water and Oil at the Pore Scale Using a Micromodel Apparatus at Reservoir Conditions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01)CO2 convective mixing in water has been visualized in Hele-Shaw and PVT cell experiments but not at the pore scale. Furthermore, CO2 convective mixing in a three-phase system (i.e., CO2 in the presence of both water and ... -
The Impact of Salt Tectonics on the Thermal Evolution and the Petroleum System of Confined Rift Basins: Insights from Basin Modeling of the Nordkapp Basin, Norwegian Barents Sea
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07)Although the thermal effect of large salt tongues and allochthonous salt sheets in passive margins is described in the literature, little is known about the thermal effect of salt structures in confined rift basins where ... -
A sequential decision and data analytics framework for maximizing value and reliability of CO2 storage monitoring
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12)Carbon capture and sequestration (carbon capture and storage or CCS) represents a unique potential strategy that can minimize CO2 emissions in the atmosphere, and it creates a pathway toward a neutral carbon balance, which ... -
Discrete Element Modelling of Sedimentation and Tectonics: Implications for the Growth of Thrust Faults and Thrust Wedges in Space and Time, and the Interpretation of Syn-Tectonic (Growth) Strata
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09)Thrust faults, and thrust wedges, are an important part of the surface morphology and structure of many contractional mountain belts. Analogue models of thrust wedges typically provide a map- and/or side-view of their ... -
Resistivity of reservoir sandstones and organic rich shales on the Barents Shelf: Implications for interpreting CSEM data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)Marine controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) data have been utilized in the past decade during petroleum exploration of the Barents Shelf, particularly for de-risking the highly porous sandstone reservoirs of the Upper ... -
Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous source rocks in the Norwegian Barents Sea, part II: Insights from open- and closed-system pyrolysis experiments
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)The petroleum generation potential of Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous organic rich shales from the southwestern Barents Sea was evaluated using bulk and quantitative pyrolysis analysis. Fifteen thermally-immature samples ... -
Efficient Dimensionality Reduction Methods in Reservoir History Matching
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)Production forecasting is the basis for decision making in the oil and gas industry, and can be quite challenging, especially in terms of complex geological modeling of the subsurface. To help solve this problem, assisted ... -
Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous source rocks in the Norwegian Barents Sea, part I: Organic geochemical, petrographic, and paleogeographic investigations.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09)This study provides a subregional to regional characterization of organofacies changes within the two members of the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Hekkingen Formation (i.e. Alge and Krill) by integrating geochemical ... -
Appraisal campaign selection based on the maximum value of sequential information
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09)Field development projects generally demand large investments which are subject to geological uncertainty, hence projects can benefit from geological information obtained from appraisal wells before large capital commitment. ... -
Rotary steerable systems: mathematical modeling and their case study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)Directional drilling is a common and essential procedure of major extended reach drilling operations. With the development of directional drilling technologies, the percentage of recoverable oil production has increased. ...
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