Time-stamp: <2006-12-13 18:12:28 Svein>

Master thesis problems 2006-07

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13Dec06 Increased Oil Recovery from Extended Reach Drilling (ERD)
Contact: Brikt Rathour Hansen, brikth@statoil.com, Statoil ASA. Brikt Rathour Hansen is advisor and Prof. II Arild Saasen, UiS and Statoil the UiS academic responsible. Please note that this problem is considered to require a lot of work.
24Nov06 Influence of rate, fluid pair and conditions on n-exponent
Contact: Ove Bjørn Wilson or Kristoffer Birkeland at ResLab, see Contact.
3Nov06 Varg gas lift
Due to water breakthrough in two production wells in the Varg field, gas lift was installed. The problem concerns the description and optimalization of the gas lift system. More detailed description in Norwegian is attached.
Contact: Ivar Garnes, Talisman Energy; igarnes@talisman-energy.no
2Nov06 More Evaluation of SNORRE FAWAG using STARS simulator
Contact: Ying Guo, Total
9Oct06 Master thesis rules and forms
9Oct06 Numerical dispersion and upscaling
Contact: Hans Kleppe, UiS/IPT
8Oct06 Reservoir simulation - Pore-scale network modelling
Contact: Runar Bøe, UiS/IPT
7Oct06 CO2-flooding, Low salinity water flooding, Wettability alterations
Contact: Ingebret Fjelde, IRIS
7Oct06 Subjects for Bachelor and Master thesis from the "Carbonate-Group," Spring -07
Contact: Tor Austad or Merete V. Madland
16Sep06 Drilling Fluids, M-I SWACO
Contact: Claas van der Zwaag
9Sep06 Drilling and "ReelWell"
Click on date and you will find 3 files: (1) a text-file with three thesis problems, (2) a spe-paper about ReelWell, and (3) a ppt-file info-flyer.
Contact: Ola Michael Vestavik (see text-file) or Bernt Aadnøy.
31Aug06 Drilling and "Badger"
Contact: Research Director Tom Steinskoga at IRIS.
Badger: Badger-video.
11Aug06 Drilling and Geomechanics
Contact: Professor Bernt Aadnøy, UiS
8Aug06 Three-phase flow, elliptic regions
Contact: George Virnovsky at IRIS.
8Aug06 Reservoir modelling, ensemble Kalman filters
Contact: Geir Naevdal at IRIS.
30Jul06 Reservoir modelling problems
Contact: Roman Berenblyum at IRIS.
26Jun06 Reservoir Modelling
Topics in reservoir simulation, upscaling, uncertainty estimates.
Contact: Tor Barkve, Roxar Software Solutions, Gamle Forusv 17, P.O.Box 112, 4065 Stavanger, Phone +47 992 42093
email: Tor.Barkve@roxar.com