Ice Operations

Programme 2014 - 2020 Kolarctic ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2023-10-30

Description

Description (EN):

The Arctic Barents Sea and, in particular, the north and north-east part of the Barents Sea have challenging ice conditions with level ice, ice rubble, ice ridges, icebergs and ice drift. Ice conditions change during the year. The climate is extreme, with low temperatures, snow and ice and strong winds. During the summer period, there is 24 hour daylight and this changes to complete darkness during winter (December-January). Water depth in the Barents Sea is around 200-300 meters. The ICEOP project main objective is to give increased business development opportunities for oil and gas exploration and production in the arctic by improved maritime accessibility, better knowledge of ice conditions and more accurate models to ensure safe and environmental friendly field developments. The project shall: Perform field expeditions, measurements and data collection, increase current knowledge base of the Barents Sea area ice conditions, establish best practice models/understanding for ice and structure interactions relevant for the Barents Sea, and create recommendations for oil and gas field development concepts

Achievements (EN):

Ice conditions in the Barents and Pechora Sea and the Bothnian Sea have been monitored and analyzed by use of SAR data from Sentinel/Copernicus, and advanced methods have been developed for assessing the ice extend, ice thickness and ridge density. An extensive “Field expedition program” has been carried through with expeditions in the Barents Sea (2020 and 2021 with the Arctic Floating University) and the Bothnian Sea (navigation in ice campaigns with the FMI vessel Aranda and the Swedish IB Frej vessel). Large scale share tests of rubble ice carried out in Bay of Bothnia. Significant volume of field data collected. Analysis of field data have been done at the ColdTech laboratories (LTU). Datasets from earlier field expeditions or projects as EU projects Loleif and Strice (load event analysis) and the ColdTech project (ice ridge database and measurement data from the Barents Sea) have also been used to create valuable results for modelling purposes. Models (for rubble ice, level ice, ice-structural interactions and partly ice ridges “db”) within “Ice Mechanics” work package have been developed. Case studies using these models, for concrete foundations in ice infested waters were performed. Marine operations with navigational in ice expeditions were performed in Bay of Bothnia (and metadata set created). Ice maps, ice risk analysis and maps as well as Polaris Rio work for the Barents (north and east) and Pechora Sea have been made. This work has contributed to the finalization of the PhD project “Nonlinear Numerical Simulations of Interactions Between Ice Rubble and Structure by A. Patil SINTEF Narvik”. The ICEOP project has published several scientific articles and within activities as “Education, conferences and workshops” the ICEOP project has contributed in sections for educational programs as the international “Arctic Engineering School” (NArFU). ICEOP has delivered sections (in 2019, 2020 and 2021) at the “international Arctic Forum – Projects today and tomorrow” (Sozvezdye).

Website: https://iceops.eu/

Delivered Outputs (EN):

The ICEOP project has published several scientific articles and within activities as “Education, conferences and workshops” the ICEOP project has contributed with developing several sections for educational programs, as for example the international “Arctic Engineering School” (NArFU). ICEOP has delivered sections (in 2019, 2020 and 2021) at the “international Arctic Forum – Projects today and tomorrow” (Sozvezdye). The project work executed in WP2, 3 and 4 has contributed to the finalization of the PhD project “Nonlinear Numerical Simulations of Interactions Between Ice Rubble and Structure by A. Patil SINTEF Narvik”. This work has given important data from large shear tests of rubble ice providing important information for an improved rubble ice mechanical model. Important algorithms established by Finish and Russian partners, utilizing high resolution SAR information (satellite) to give overviews of ice conditions (extend, ice thickness, ice ridge density etc.).

Thematic information

Coastal management and maritime issues Transport and mobility

Thematic Objective: Business and SME development

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: Northern Research Institute Narvik AS

Address: Rombaksveien E6-47, 8517 Narvik, Norway

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 409 468.00

Ilmatieteen laitos

Name: Ilmatieteen laitos

Address: Erik Palmenin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 267 497.00

ERDF budget: EUR 66 874.25

ENI budget: EUR 66 874.25

Association of oil and gas suppliers "Sozvezdye"j

Name: Association of oil and gas suppliers "Sozvezdye"j

Address: Lenin sq 4, office 1210, 16300 Arkhangelsk, Russia

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 39 980.00

ERDF budget: EUR 9 995.00

ENI budget: EUR 9 995.00

Storvik & Co Oy

Name: Storvik & Co Oy

Address: c/o Colleqium Oy Sepänkatu 20, 90100 Oulu, Finland

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 53 612.00

ERDF budget: EUR 13 403.00

ENI budget: EUR 13 403.00

Luleå Tekniska Universitet

Name: Luleå Tekniska Universitet

Address: Luleå Tekniska Universitet, 97187 Luleå, Sweden

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 246 167.00

ERDF budget: EUR 61 541.75

ENI budget: EUR 61 541.75

Северный (Арктический) федеральный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова

Name: Северный (Арктический) федеральный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова

Address: Severnaya Dvina Embankment 17, 163002 Arkhangelsk, Russia

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 198 278.00

ERDF budget: EUR 49 569.50

ENI budget: EUR 49 569.50

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Summary

Project name (EN): Ice Operations

Project acronym: ICEOP

Project start date: 2018-10-15

Project end date: 2021-10-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 215 002.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 402 768.00

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 201 384.00.
ENPI/ENI/NDICI: Amount, EUR 201 384.00.

Third-country contribution: Norway: EUR 204 734.00 (ERDF equivalent only)

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2014 - 2020 Kolarctic ENI CBC

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-10-30

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

44 / 44 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

233 / 233 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (https://kolarctic.info/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2023-01-09.

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