About
DigiWells: Digital Well Center for Value Creation, Competitiveness and Minimum Environmental Footprint

Digitalization, new sensors, new high-speed telemetry solutions, automation, autonomy, and improved work processes has the potential to enable a step change of the well delivery process. The centre will explore these possibilities by combining domain knowledge with fundamental research to accelerate the digital transformation of the well delivery process. The centre aims to develop work processes for planning drilling and well operations, new sensors, solutions for interoperability, solutions for automated and autonomous drilling, and decision support systems for geosteering. New solutions will be demonstrated at the national research infrastructures OpenLab Drilling, Ullrigg and against field data from operators.
The centre will become a collaborative arena for operators, service industry, public authorities, research institutions and academia in Norway and internationally. Results from the centre’s activity will enable innovation, business development, and value creation for the Norwegian society. Moreover, in collaboration with universities, the centre will educate the next generation of specialists who will help implement the achieved research results.
The DigiWells consortium connects the operators, service companies, and academic partners. It is the place where experts of different disciplines talk together.
Work Package Leaders

WP1 - Agile well construction workflow, WP3 - Smart sensing & WP4 Interoperability and user-system interaction
The board
Tron Golder Kristiansen
AkerBP ASA - Board Chair
Henrik Manum
Equinor Energy AS
Geir Dyrstad
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS
Mohammad Sofyan
TotalEnergies
Tron Helgesen
Harbour Energy Norge AS
Sergey Sakharov
Vår Energi ASA
Andre Leibsohn Martins
Petrobras
Øystein Arild
University of Stavanger
Morten Jakobsen
University of Bergen
Ole Morten Aamo
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Aina M. Berg
NORCE
NORCE Halil Øzarpa
Research Council of Norway - Observer
The consortium
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