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Main contact: Professor Anne Barros, DNV GL Professor in Subsea Reliability
New PhD and Postdoc scholarships
SUBPRO is currently announcing several PhD and Postdoc scholarships. If you are interested in this area of research, you should consider to apply one of these positions/scholarships. The application deadline is 20 April, 2015.
This is a unique opportunity to join the largest research program ever on subsea production and processing starting up at NTNU in 2015.
New subsea solutions are needed to increase the recovery factor of existing fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, to reduce the cost of subsea installations and to allow development of new more demanding fields, such as in the Northern areas and the Barents sea.
These gaps in technology and system solutions were the background for an initiative taken by five departments at NTNU (including the Department of Production and Quality Engineering) at NTNU to join to become a center for research-driven innovation (“senter for forskningsdrevet innovasjon”, SFI): SUBPRO. The main focus of SUBPRO is directed to separation fundamentals, subsea unit and system design, and subsea system operation and control.
SFI SUBPRO is the largest research project in the world in subsea oil and gas production and processing. The total funding is approximately 30 million per year over eight years, and is scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2015. Key industry partners are oil companies, manufactures, and service providers in the qualification of new technology.
Reliability, availability, maintainability/maintenance and safety (RAMS) and subsea control systems are among the identified research challenges of SUBPRO, and include:
- Incorporation of reliability and availability in the design of subsea technology and systems
- New safety barrier strategy for subsea systems
- Health and prognostic management
- Integration of control and statistical modeling for optimizing production and control with remaining useful life
- Integrated models for simulation and control of subsea and downhole production and boosting systems
- Monitoring of system state and equipment condition for subsea processes based on detailed dynamic models
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Please contact one of the following key personnel for the above areas if you have questions:
- Reliability assessment mary.a.lundteigen@ntnu.no or anne.barros@ntnu.no (See also ROSS News)
- Control systems: Christian.holden@ntnu.no or olav.egeland@ntnu.no
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