Future Challenges in

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• Future Challenges in
• Cooperative Petroleum Research
• Status
• Progress

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• Norwegian Research Council suggested 20
• increase (570 MNOK) in funding from the
  government
• for 2003

• Wanted to strengthen research within
• Biotechnology
• Petroleum technology
• Materials engineering

Before last week Actual increase was
10 Revised budget last week Actual increase is
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October 1st 2002 SkatteFUNN (max
4MNOK/year/company)
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• RD-support as of GNP (Source NRC, 2003)
• Sweden 4.3
• Finland 3.4
• Iceland 3.0
• Denmark 2.4
• Norway 1.6
• OECD-average 2.2

• Sweden 10300 NOK/inhabitant
• Norway 5400 NOK/inhabitant

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Good relations - personal contacts
Research institutions
Oil companies
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Several research istitutions lack the right
links to the right people in the oil companies

• Project theme defined based on internal/personal
  interest or believing idea
• might be of interest to the companies

• Proposal sent to people they know without
  necessarily being the right
• technical person

• Possibly no initial discussion prior to project
  presentation sent via e-mail

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Research institutions are using lots of time and
effort to
Should use the time for research
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Oil company
Dept. F
Dept. E
Dept. D
RecommendationNo
Dept. A
Dept. B
Dept. C
Need a more effective process!

• no formal system for internal
• handling of external project proposals

• no given formal contact person

• no deadline for feedback

• no given system for feedback

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2002
Seminar
Enhanced cooperation
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Feedback from research institutions
No more boxes, please! Action is needed!
High quality research projects
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Abroad. ? Example UK

• Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF)
• a not for profit organisation owned and
  supported by major operating and service
  companies
• the vehicle through which these companies fund
  joint industry projects that address the
  technology needs of the UK oil and gas industry.

• Among other tasks
• Identify gaps in technology and potential
  solutions
• Assess feasibility of proposed projects
• Proposals that have passed through the
  assessment stage are developed and
• put forward to members with a recommendation
  for funding

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Action Improve the process
Asked all oil companies to list Long-term
research topics and technology needs
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Message Base the project proposals on Long-term
research topics and technology needs
Submit the proposal to Force within 15th June

• Purpose
• find the right themes for projects
• gain more interest for the proposals

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• Experience
• Discussion of project theme was often fruitless
  as the right people
• were not involved either concerning content or
  budget

• Companies answered No without giving any
  feedback on
• what theme(s) might rather be of interest

• Companies hesitate to give out ideas of what to
  do research on
• due to competition (especially in exploration)

• Result
• Not a single project was initiated

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Norwegian Sea (Lysing/Lange) Research Consortium
Biostratigraphy
Sedimentology
Rock Properties
Structural Geology?
Depositional model.
Biofacies
Petrography
Seismic interpr. Key data ?
Paleogeographical maps.
Biostrat/dating
Diagenesis
Provenance
Core descriptions
Clay minerals
Trace Fossils (Atlas?)
Link to geophysics, rock properties.
N/G distribution
Budget estimate pr. year 2000 kNOK 1000kNOK
(forskningsråd)
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Norwegian Sea Research Consortium (NOSE RES-Q)
The aim of the project is to address two main
un- certainties in the exploration process

• The absence of mineralogical input to a "rock
  properties" model for the
• Upper Cretaceous (shale rock properties in
  particular), enhancing
• seismic attribute evaluation
• Methodologies to predict sand-presence in a
  distal/basinal setting

Interest from technical people, but need to be
aligned with the funding process within the
companies
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Conclusion

• Action has been taken, but success is lacking

• Why?
• Lack of interesting themes
• Lack of money

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Needs

• Agreement on themes for research among oil
• companies that address the technology needs

• Commitment from high-level management

• Communication of agreed themes to research
• institutions

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Focus this years seminar on
Mechanism of cooperation
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Need

• Mechanism of cooperation

• Which leads to initiation of high quality
• research projects

• Does there already exist such a mechanism
• to build on?

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•  The absence of mineralogical input to a "rock
  properties" model for the
• Upper Cretaceous (shale rock properties in
  particular), enhancing
• seismic attribute evaluation
• Methodologies to predict sand-presence in a
  distal/basinal setting

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Norwegian Research Council Not enough to
increase activity and raise level of research
Research institutions Although a list of needs
was presented, some project proposals were
not aligned according to the list
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that address the technology needs

• Purpose
• find the right themes for projects
• gain more interest for the project proposals

• Result
• Not a single project was initiated

• Assess themes that address the technology needs