Haltenbanken, west
of Trondheim in the Norwegian Sea, is an
interesting area for both production and
exploration. First production from
Haltenbanken started in 1995. This
village is established based on
challenges from this area. Several
fields are in production and new fields
are under development. The fields
operated from Stjørdal are the Åsgard
Field including Smørbukk, Smørbukk South
and Midgard and the Kristin field,
Tyrihans, Morvin, Mikkel, Heidrun and
Njord Equinor fields. See the link at
left for their operated fields.
All
fields are working with Improved Oil
Recovery (IOR) challenges in many
different ways. It is important to keep
up the work to increase the recovery
factor to delay the declining
production. All new ideas are valuable
for further investigation within all
type of disciplines, reservoir,
production, geophysics, geology,
petrophysics, drilling and completion.
We seek your expertise to add value to
this important work.
The technical task in this
project will be divided in two parts.
First part will focus on IOR for
Haltenbanken fields in general. The second part
will have main focus on one of the
Haltenbanken fields to be selected
later. Tasks will primarily deal with
IOR challenges, production optimization,
infill drilling targets, and recovery
from low permeable facies.
The
required data from the selected field
will be available at the start of the
village. The data will be an important
basis for all project work in the
village.
The group projects
will naturally have a basis in petroleum
geosciences and petroleum engineering,
however, students from other technology
areas are most welcome. Sufficient
training will be given as needed. Each
group will consist of students from
various study programs in order to form
a multidisciplinary team. Each group
will be assigned advisors both from NTNU
and Equinor.
The
first or the second day of the
Haltenbanken Village a group of experts
from Equinor in Stjørdal
will be with the student groups
presenting current challenges in
production of the fields in Haltenbanken
area. The actual group projects will be
defined by Equinor and the groups after
this day. Equinor will vistit the
village during the semester, and the
final presentations will be at Equinor.