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Administrative
Support
President
Basin
Modelling
Seismic and
Reservoir Technology
Formation
Physics
Drilling and
Well Construction
Production
Technology
Wellstream
Technology
SINTEF Petroleum Research is a Norwegian company specializing in petroleum research in exploration and production technology. Our
activities are financed mainly through contract research and public research funding. The main clients are oil companies and service
companies. SINTEF Petroleum Research collaborates closely with other institutes within the SINTEF Group and several universities. Our
offices are located in Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger and Houston.
The SINTEF Petroleum Research staff includes about 118 employees, including researchers, engineers, technical support and
administration. Some 48 % of the scientific staff hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree.
SINTEF Petroleum Research is associated with SINTEF Energy Research under the name of SINTEF Petroleum and Energy.
April
2010
Bergen
SINTEF Petroleumsforskning AS
Postal address: Thormhlens Gate 53 C,
NO-5006 Bergen, Norway
Phone: +47 73 59 11 00
Fax: +47 55 31 42 55
Stavanger
SINTEF Petroleumsforskning AS
Postal address: POB 8034,
NO-4068 Stavanger, Norway
Phone: +47 51 87 44 00
Fax: +47 51 87 44 01
Houston
SINTEF Petroleumsforskning AS
Postal address: MARINTEK (USA), Inc.,
2603 Augusta #200, Houston, Texas 77057, USA
Tel: +1 713 452 2771
Fax: +1 713 452 2768
Trondheim (Main Office)
SINTEF Petroleumsforskning AS
Postal address: POB 4763 Sluppen,
NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway
Phone: +47 73 59 11 00
Fax: +47 73 59 11 02
Email: info@iku.sintef.no
www.sintef.no/petroleum
The SINTEF Group is the largest independent research institution in Scandinavia. Our vision is Technology for a better society. We aim
to contribute to growth in value creation, improved quality of life and a sustainable development through research and knowledge.
At the turn of the year, SINTEF had 2040 employees. Our colleagues come from 55 different countries, and in 2007 they generated new
knowledge to the value of NOK 2.3 billion.
More than 90 percent of our earnings come from contracts for industry and the public sector, and from project grants from the Research Council
of Norway. Our basic grant from the Research Council accounts for around eight percent of the total.
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Reservoir Technology
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SINTEF Petroleum Research
Phase behaviour
Phase behaviour of hydrocarbon systems has a central
place in the understanding of oil recovery process,
along with the fluid flow properties. The volumes and
composition of liquid and gas at different temperature
and pressure affect hydrocarbon recovery through
miscibility, liquid dropout in condensates, phase
volumes, etc. Also solid hydrocarbon phases, such as
asphaltenes and waxes, may influence oil recovery
through well productivity and separation processes.
Miscibility studies
pVTx studies
Asphaltene precipitation
Diffusion
Light scattering and pendant drop measurements
of interfacial tension (ultralow IFT)
Reservoir engineering is based on the
understanding of fluid flow in porous media. The
reservoir technology department provides data
on permeability, porosity, end point saturation,
and relative permeability for gas, water, and oil,
for a range of process conditions. It is our aim
to produce reliable data with high quality core
flooding equipment, using carefully designed
experimental procedures.
Special core analysis
Mobility control by foam
Flow in 2D under influence of gravity
Wettability
Simulation of laboratory experiments
IFT measured in near-critical gas condensate (CCE experiment)
Precipitation and aggregation of asphaltenes in reservoir fluid upon addition of injection
gas, observed in visual pVT cell. (A) 5 minutes and (B) 15 minutes after addition of gas.
CO
2
sequestration
A major option to reduce CO
2
emissions is to store
industrial CO
2
in geological formations. The department
has a 16 year record in development of technology for
this concept.
Conceptual and economical analysis
Numerical simulation of CO
2
disposal (EOR and
aquifer storage) and of underground transport of CO
2
Core flooding and phase behaviour
Simulated CO
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plumes at the Sleipner CO
2
injection project.
A) B)
Reservoir simulation
Modelling of the physical phenomena involved during flow in porous
media is essential for the understanding of reservoir processes. A
number of methods and tools are used for this purpose, varying
from commercial reservoir simulators to specially developed
and dedicated models.
Development of
simulation models
Mechanistic studies of
reservoir phenomena
Full field simulations
Flow in porous media
Laboratory-scale 2D flow model
Contact
Research Director Marie L. Olivier
E-mail: marie-laure.olivier@sintef.no
Phone: +47 73 59 13 81/+47 930 35 495
Telefax: +47 73 59 12 46