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Scholarship
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Scholarship of Monbukagakusho
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Norway: PhD Scholarship in Model
Predictive Control for Managed Pressure Drilling, The Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
The Department of Engineering Cybernetics at The Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in cooperation with the
Center for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry, invites
applications for a PhD scholarship in Model Predictive Control for
Managed Pressure Drilling.
Maintaining the correct bottom hole pressure during drilling is
important both for the safety of the drilling operation and for the
production characteristics of the well. The control problem is
complicated by the long distance from the well bottom to the control
actuator on the surface (possibly more than 10 km), in addition to
the lack of on-line measurements from the well bottom. The proposed
PhD will investigate the use of Model Predictive Control (MPC) for
this problem. The control should be able to handle both normal
drilling and operation in the face of disturbances, such as gas
production from the reservoir
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