Scholarship Details:
4 PhD research fellowship positions and 1 post doc position are vacant within the research project “Intelligent drilling – automated underbalanced drilling operations”, funded by the Norwegian Research Council and Statoil ASA. The PhD scholars and Post Doc will work on challenging research problems in an active research team at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics and the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics, NTNU, in close interaction with researchers from Statoil and International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS), and with extensive international cooperation. The main research objective is to develop intelligent closed-loop control concepts for improved safety and efficiency of offshore underbalanced drilling operations (UBD). UBD with complete control over borehole hydraulics will be an enabling technology for getting access to reserves in mature fields which are unreachable with conventional drilling technologies. Moreover, such UBD technology will provide a number of other enhancements in safety and efficiency of drilling operations.
Eligibility Details:
For PhD- Required backgrounds for the PhD-positions are MSc degrees in engineering cybernetics/control engineering or similar, or MSc degree in petroleum engineering, multiphase flow modeling or similar. The applicants should indicate which theme(s) they are interested in. Solid scientific qualifications, relevant MSc research topics, motivation and personal qualities are important.
For Postdoctoral-Applicants must have a PhD in engineering cybernetics/control engineering or similar, or a PhD in petroleum engineering on topics closely related to automated drilling. For applicants with a control background, specialization in automated drilling systems is advantageous. Documented scientific qualifications, relevant PhD research topics and personal qualities are important.
The main research objective is to develop intelligent closed-loop control concepts for improved safety and efficiency of offshore underbalanced drilling operations (UBD). UBD with complete control over borehole hydraulics will be an enabling technology for getting access to reserves in mature fields which are unreachable with conventional drilling technologies. Moreover, such UBD technology will provide a number of other enhancements in safety and efficiency of drilling operations.
Application Deadline:
Application Deadline is August 8th 2011.
Further Details:
For further information about this scholarship visit below link.
http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=75936
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