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Name:
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Ole Torsæter
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Adress:
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Øvergeilan 18, 7089 Heimdal, Norway
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Date of birth:
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18. Sep. 1951
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Status:
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Married, 3 children
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Education:
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Siv.ing. (MSc)
Petroleum Engineering,
The Norwegian Institute of Technology,
University of Trondheim, 1975.
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Doktor ingeniør
(Dr.Ing.) Reservoir Engineering,
The Norwegian Institute of Technology,
University of Trondheim, 1983.
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Current possition:
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Professor,
Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics
Norwegian University
of Science and Technology (NTNU).
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Employment:
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January 1976 to March 1977:
Royal Norwegian Navy. Quartermaster.
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April 1977 to December 1979:
SINTEF, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Researcher.
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January 1980 to December 1982:
Dr.Ing. scholarship from
NAVF, NTNF and Mobil
working at Phillips Petroleum
Company Research
Center
in Bartlesville, Oklahoma,
USA.
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January 1983 to February 1987:
Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics,
The Norwegian Institute of Technology
Associate Professor in reservoir engineering
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March 1987 to February 1988:
Reservoir Laboratories as. Senior Reservoir Engineer.
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March 1988 to present:
Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics, NTNU:
March 1988 to Dec.1990: Associate Professor
Jan. 1991-: Professor
July 1991 to June 1992: Visiting Professor, New Mexico
Tech., USA
Jan. 1991 to June 1996: Head of Department
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Publications:
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50 international publications in the period 1986-2000 in
the
research area of flow in porous media, reservoir parameters and
experimental reservoir engineering.
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Committees, etc.:
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-Member of the Board, Petreco
A/S, 1984-1986
-Member of the Board, ResLab A/S, 1985-1988
-Member of the organizing and editorial committee for the conference:
"International conference on North Sea oil and gas reservoirs",Trondheim,
1985
-Member of the technical committee for "Chalk Reservoir Research
Program, 1986
-Member of the technical committee for "Eleventh European Formation
Evaluation
Symposium" SPWLA, Oslo, 1988
-Member of the committee for Petroleum Technology, Norwegian Petroleum
Society,
1988-1991
-Member of the organizing and editorial committee for the conference
"2nd
International Conference: North Sea Oil and Gas Reservoirs", Trondheim, 1989
-Member of the Steering Committee for SPE Forum Series in Europe on "Modelling
of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs", Grindelwald,
Switzerland, 1989
-Chairman of the organizing committee for "The Third Conference on
Reservoir
Management in Field Development and Production", NPF, Kristiansand, 1990
-Member of the organizing and editorial committee for the conference;
"Third
International Conference: North Sea Oil and Gas Reservoirs", Trondheim, 1992
-Member of the Board, IKU Petroleum Research, 1993-1999
-Member of the Board, Petreco A/S, 1993-1995
-Member of the Board, GeoProbing Technology A/S,
1997-
-Member of the Organizing and Technical Committee for The 5th International
Symposium on Evaluation of Reservoir Wettability and Its Effect on Oil
Recovery,
Trondheim, 22-24 June, 1998. -Member of the
Petroleum Committee in NIF, 1996-
-Member of the Organizing Committee of The 1999 Annual Conference of the
International Association for Mathematical Geology, Trondheim
,6-11 August 1999.
-Member of the technical committee of the 6th International Symposium on
Reservoir
Wettability and Its Effect on Oil Recovery, Socorro, NM, USA, 27-28 September
2000.
-Member of the technical committee of the 2000 International Symposium of the
Society of Core Analysts, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 18-22 October
2000.
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Teaching:
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Flow in porous media
Reservior engineering laboratory
Petroleum engineering
Well testing
Fractured reservoirs
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Supervised Dr.Ing.
(Ph.D.)-theses:
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-Ying Gou: "Centrifuge experiment and relative
permeabilities", 1988.
-Fridjov Ravn Munkvold:
"Relative permeability and capillary pressure experiments, 1993.
-Jan Chr. Rivenæs:
"A computer simulation model for siliciclastic
basin stratigraphy", 1993.
-Kjell Erik Wenneberg:
"Particle retension in porous media.
Applications to water injectivity decline",
1998.
-Manoochehr Abtahi:
"Scaling immiscible flow through heterogeneous porous media", 1999.
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Current doctorgrade students:
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-Mohammad Sarwaruddin
"Direct capillary pressure measurements by centrifuging".
-Espen Kowalewski: "Wettability of
reservoir rocks".
-Saifullah Talukdar:
"Pore scale modeling of multiphase flow in chalk".
-Jo Røyslien "Modeling and parameter
estimation in core sampling and well logging".
-Medad T. Tweheyo:
"Electrical resistivity and capillary pressure
relationships of rocks saturated".
with oil, water and gas at reservoir
conditions".
Alf Sebastian Lackner: Improved oil recovery
Janet Eileen Bronken-Jacobsson:
Formation evaluation
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Supervised Sivilingeniør and M.Sc. theses:
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In the period 1983 to present 81 theses works have been
supervised.
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Opponent, Dr.-disputations at other universities:
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Dr.Scient Jan Erik Nordtvedt, University of Bergen, 1989
Dr.Philos Arne Graue,
University of Bergen, 1991
Dr.Scient Erik Søndenå,
University of Bergen, 1991
Dr.Scient Ogbonnia Eleri, University of Bergen, 1995
Dr.Scient Jess Mitler, Unviversity of Bergen, 1996
Dr.Scient Knut Arne Børresen, University of Bergen, 1996
Dr.Scient Bjørn Gerry Viksund,
University of Bergen, 1998
Dr.Scient Hege Urkedal, University of Bergen, 1998
Dr.Scient Samuel Subbey,
University of Bergen, 2000
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