Magnus Nystad is a PhD student at NTNU doing research in NTNU’s Research and Innovation Program in Digital and Automation Solutions for the Oil and Gas Industry. He develops methods for real-time drilling optimization based on an automated test procedure that extracts information about …
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NTNU Drillbotics Team Member Receives Award
Mikaela Solberg from the NTNU Drillbotics team received the best NTNU petroleum engineering student award of 2022, in particular for her Drillbotics MSc project (but also for her excellent performance throughout all her studies). The award (approximately USD$7.500) was given by Vår Energi - …
Drillbotics® 2022-2023 Registered Teams
Drillbotics® 2022-2023 kicked off this year with 11 teams from 7 countries: Belgium, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Norway, USA. They will build a lab-scale rig or create a model of a full-scale rig to autonomously drill a directional well. Alternately, they will connect to a downhole …
