Equinor is developing oil and gas fields in the South-western Barents Sea. In these parts of the Barents Sea ice is occurs rarely (perhaps every 100 or 1000 year). But ice needs to be taken into account in the design, even if we cannot expect to measure much ice in the areas. The main challenge here is how to quantify statistics of sea ice ridges and the solution is to use combined physical-statistical methods. That is to use data from Northern Barents Sea and simulate how it changes as it drifts south.
Contact person at NTNU Knut V. Høyland, knut.hoyland@ntnu.no and co-supervisors are Sigurd Teigen from Equinor and/or Nicolas Serré from Multiconsult.