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Description
Energy problems play an important role in the global development of industrial and underdeveloped countries. Energy issues are usually accompanied with the challenging trade off of energy production and environmental sustainability. Norway is recognized worldwide as a leader in the advances of offshore petroleum. The MSc in Petroleum Engineering at University of Stavanger is uniquely focused on the specific needs of the upstream petroleum industry and explores challenges currently being faced by practicing petroleum engineers, and provides an excellent basis for PhD studies. New challenge in geothermy and environmental protection in oil and gas field, lead to setting up a new teaching curriculum at the University of Stavanger by a joint effort with the UPG. This project will increase the future engineer’s awareness to those issues and improve the career prospects of scholars in their home countries.
This is in perfect alignment with the Norway priority, Engineering and engineering trades, set by national authorities in charge of higher education in collaboration with the European Commission and the EU Delegation to Norway.
Research and scientific development are decisive criteria for the international recognition and thus they constitute priorities for UPG. The quality of research and teaching activity is also reflected in the large number of specialists trained by our university, who occupy important positions of leadership today, both in their home country and abroad. The spectrum of skills students and master graduates acquired in UPG is extremely broad. Norway university offers to the students in the domain of Energy, and especially oil and gas, modules from chemical engineering to management and economics. Among the field of competencies of Norway staff members we list: energy production and conversion, process design, material and mechanics engineering, international finance and energy economics.
Summary of project results
- Good cooperation betwwen the two institutions;
- expanding the cooperation to research in the field of geothermal energy.
Summary of bilateral results
The outcome of the project will be improving of part of university energy system and the increase of the national expertise in geothermal field and the number of specialists on the market.Also, another outcome of it will be the possibility of presenting on-line, live, of the geotechnical solutions, with their direct effect on the classical fuel consumption, operational costs, and pollution.The outcome of this will be the connection of Romanian market to EU market solutions of financing geothermal and providing best up-to-date technology and solutions.