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

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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.

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Eric Cayeux

WP1 - Agile well construction workflow, WP3 - Smart sensing & WP4 Interoperability and user-system interaction

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Rodica G. Mihai

WP5 - Drilling automation and autonomy

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Helga Gjeraldstveit

WP6 - Studies and analysis

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Erlend H.Vefring

WP7 - Project management

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

Research partners

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International research partners

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Sponsoring partners

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In-kind partners

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SFI DigiWells is a center for research-based innovation funded by the Research Council of Norway and the industrial partners from 2020 to 2028