Comprehensive petroleum research NTNU recognizes the need to make the research efforts within the university´s petroleum sector more apparent. We have initiated such an awareness process by establishing the Gas Technology Center, NTNU-Sintef in 2003. NTNU wants to include the extraction and production phase for oil and gas in the thematic field.
To accomodate this, the program "Petroleum – increased extraction" was established in 2004.
NTNU has concluded that energy research should be seen as a whole, with environmental concerns as a guide and sustainability as long-term goal.
Consequently, the thematic field has changed its name, from Energy and environment to Energy and petroleum – resources and environment.
NTNU´s strategic research areas have been chosen from the following criteria:
- High, international level quality
- Well-established research networks and academic cooperation, domestically and internationally.
- Degree of significance for Norwegian business, trade and industry, and for society at large
- Possibilities for external financing, domestically and internationally
Petroleum – increased extraction satisfies all these criteria.
History NTNU and the former NTH were Norwegian pioneers in the establishment of university education and research in the field of searching for and extracting oil and gas. The Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics has, since 1973, been the main supplier of candidates and research to society and industry. Until today, 1500 engineers and Master of Science students have graduated from the department, as well as about 90 Doctors of Engineering.
In the last ten years this research environment has consciously worked towards internationalization and has today a substantial number of foreign students and staff, and today NTNU is home to one of the world’s largest research environments in the field of petroleum research.
Last Updated: 08.08.2006
