3 PhD research fellowship positions and 1 post doctoral position at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, and 1 PhD research fellowship position at the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics, within the research project “Intelligent drilling – automated underbalanced drilling operations”.
4 PhD research fellowship positions and 1 post doc position are vacant within the research project “Intelligent drilling – automated underbalanced drilling operations”, funded by the Norwegian Research Council and Statoil ASA. The PhD scholars and Post Doc will work on challenging research problems in an active research team at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics and the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics, NTNU, in close interaction with researchers from Statoil and International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS), and with extensive international cooperation.
The main research objective is to develop intelligent closed-loop control concepts for improved safety and efficiency of offshore underbalanced drilling operations (UBD). UBD with complete control over borehole hydraulics will be an enabling technology for getting access to reserves in mature fields which are unreachable with conventional drilling technologies. Moreover, such UBD technology will provide a number of other enhancements in safety and efficiency of drilling operations.
Relevant research themes are:
- Holistic automated pressure and flow control for underbalanced drilling
- Two-phase flow modeling, estimation and control in underbalanced drilling
- Autonomous and adaptive control and observer designs for underbalanced drilling
- Fault detection, and fault tolerant and robust control for underbalanced drilling
- Well control and barriers in automated UBD wells
- Modeling and control of slugging in UBD wells
4 PhD research fellowship positions and 1 post doctoral position
