BRU21: NTNU’s Research and Innovation Program in Digital and Automation Solutions for the Oil and Gas Industry. We mobilize multidisciplinary expertise across NTNU and, in cooperation with industrial partners, produce research results for novel technological and organizational solutions. The program consists of over 30 PhD and PostDoc projects supported by NTNU and 9 Oil and Gas and Technology companies. …read more 

Video newsletters: In this series of newsletters we present some video recordings and presentations from the 2022 BRU21 conference covering 5 sessions. 

2022 BRU21 Conference  

Plenary sessions:

In these sessions we got presentations from NTNU TTO about how Trondheim is one of the best places for innovation, from OG21 about the role of digitalization in the O&G industry and get a taste of two innovation examples coming out of BRU21

Trondheim – the innovation capital of Norway in the digital age

Lodve Berre (NTNU TTO)

Did you know the industrial and scientific ecosystem in Trondheim has generated several game changers?

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Digitalization and innovation in the O&G industry strategy

Gunnar Lille (OG21)

The O&G industry is counting on digitalization and innovation to overcome the challenges ahead and thrive

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BRU21 introduction

Alexey Pavlov (NTNU)

Alexey provides an overview of the BRU21 program, the partners, projects and important achievements to date

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BRU21 innovations: PRODECS software

Verena Hagspiel and Semyon Fedorov (NTNU)

A software solution for investment valuation under uncertainty, derived from PhD research funded by Okea

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Link to slides

BRU21 innovations: Automated well log matching with machine learning

Veronica Torres (NTNU)

Veronica presents ground-breaking results from her project funded by AkerBP

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Panel debate: How to unlock/scale up the innovative potential of digitalization?

-Gunnar Staff (Cognite AS), Knut Sebastian Tungland (Equinor), Gunnar Hjelmtveit Lille (OG21), Alenka Temeljotov- Salaj (NTNU). Moderator: Egil Tjåland (NTNU)

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