Welcome to the thesis defense of Bahador Najafiazar on December 13th in Trondheim

Bahador Najafiazar – Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, Faculty of Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

Defence of Thesis: December 13th

Bahador Najafaziar has submitted the following academic thesis as a part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Geoscience and Petroleum


« HyGreGel: A new class of gel systems for water diversion by in-depth reservoir placement »

The Faculty has appointed the following Assessment Committee to assess the thesis:
• Associate Professor Lesley Anne James, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
• Adjunct Professor Ingebret Fjelde, University of Stavanger, Norway
• Associate Professor Carl Fredrik Berg, NTNU

Associate Professor Carl Fredrik Berg, Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, has been appointed Administrator of the Committee.

The trial lecture will take place on December 13th, 2019 at 10:15
in Auditorium H2, Hovedbygget, Gløshaugen on the following prescribed subject:


“Volumetric sweep efficiency during CO2-flooding of oil reservoirs”

The public defence of the thesis takes place on December 13th, 2019 at 13:15
in Auditorium H2, Hovedbygget, Gløshaugen.


Professor Ole Torsæter, Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, has been the candidate’s main supervisor. Senior Research Scientist Torleif Holt, SINTEF Industry and Professor Jan Åge Stensen, Department of Geoscience and Petroleum has been the candidate’s co-supervisor..