Position description

Application deadlines 4. Nov and 17. Nov

These PhD positions are associated with the center for research-based innovation DigiWells: Digital Well Center for Value Creation, Competitiveness and Minimum Environmental Footprint. They are part of the center's effort to establish a collaborative environment, which will consist of researchers at NORCE, experts from industry, professors from UiS, NTNU and UiB and a total of 17 PhD students and postdocs. At this time we are announcing 2 new PhD positions.

We hope that the employed candidates will fit in and contribute to this multidisciplinary environment. Depending on the research interests the PhDs can also collaborate and visit the center’s international partners: Stanford University, TU Clausthal, University of the Basque Country, and UT Austin. Furthermore, the employed PhD candidates will have the opportunity and responsibility to show-off their research to the industrial partners of the center: Aker BP, ConocoPhillips, Equinor, Lundin, TotalEnergies, Wintershall Dea, Vår Energi.

The links to the positions

To apply for a position you will be redirected to jobbnorge.no, which is the official portal for announcing state positions in Norway. The applications can only be submitted through the portal.

• PhD position with focus on modelling of fluid flow and particle transport within confined, annular geometries, such as the annulus between a drill string and the borehole wall, with the goal of improving our understanding of fluid dynamics and drill string mechanics
• Phd position with focus on increasing energy efficiency in field development through decentralized reinforcement learning