Our Centre
Results and downloads
Download our annual reports, publications and other material.
SIRIUS General Assembly
SIRIUS organizes General Assembly twice a year, in spring and fall. General Assembly in spring is considered a researchers event focused on the research output of the centre. The Fall GA is focused on the current year’s reporting and planning for the following year. All partners (academic and Industrial) and researchers actively participate in both General Assemblies.
International and local collaboration
SIRIUS is an international centre, with collaborations across Europe and the world. We are active in European Union projects and initiatives and pursue research collaborations with the best universities and corporate research units in Europe, Brazil and the United States. We also work closely with Norwegian clusters and research institutions.
Work with Sirius
SIRIUS offers opportunities for bachelor students, masters students, PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and researchers. We offer challenging and interesting master’s projects, practical student assistant positions and placements with leading companies.
Our people
SIRIUS’ researchers are experts in IT technologies, including high-performance and cloud computing, database technology, semantic technologies and natural language processing. The centre also includes researchers in the area of working practices involving novel technology.
Our Perspectives
The Chairman’s Addresses
Each year, Knut Sebastian Tungland, the chairman of SIRIUS’ General Assembly, opens the General Assembly with an address, that is then expanded into the foreword to the SIRIUS Annual report.
- The Fascination of Software (November 2018).
- The Dilemmas of Digitalization (December 2017).
- Digital Transformation in the Energy Industry (November 2016)
The Director’s Essays
Arild Waaler. the director of the centre, writes on the strategic direction of the centre and its research.
- Maturity through Developing Young Talents (March 2019).
- Building Norwegian Competitiveness (March 2018).
- SIRIUS: A vibrant hub for research-driven innovation (March 2017).
The Coordinator’s Essays
David Cameron, SIRIUS’ coordinator, writes on the innovation and industrial focus of the centre.
- Spanning Boundaries: Beacon Projects (March 2019).
- Beacons for Industrial Digitalization (March 2018).
- Mind the Gap! Innovation to meet Oil & Gas Challenges (March 2017).
What is SIRIUS?
SIRIUS is a Norwegian Centre for Research-driven Innovation that addresses the problems of scalable data access in the oil & gas industry. The centre combines public funding for basic research with funding from its industry partners into an 8 year programme for industrial innovation. The centre started 1st November 2015 and will, according to plan, finish 31st October 2023.
The centre aims to provide the oil & gas business with better ways to access and use the massive amounts of data that are generated in projects and daily operation. Problems with data access are made more acute by the rise of big data, the internet of things and digitalisation of enterprises. SIRIUS approaches these problems using an interdisciplinary approach, as successful innovation depends on the combination of technologies.
The centre is designed to support technological innovation through a portfolio of projects defined by the centre ́s board. These projects develop basic technology in laboratory projects and then move the technology through prototypes to pilots in industrial applications. The centre ́s intellectual property model is designed to build a core of open knowledge on which commercial applications can be built.
SIRIUS aims to be an intellectual hub for applied industrial IT in South-Eastern Norway. It has dedicated premises in the Informatics Department at the University of Oslo and collaborates widely, both nationally and internationally. Many of the results generated by the centre will also be of relevance outside the oil and gas industry. The centre is therefore also active in communicating and applying its results to other areas such as Healthcare, Manufacturing and Public Administration.
Partners
SIRIUS draws together a consortium of leading industrial organisations across the oil & gas value chain, including operators (Equinor), service companies (Schlumberger, Aibel, Aker Solutions, Bosch, TechnipFMC and DNV) and IT companies (Computas, Evry, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, IBM, Kadme, Numascale, OSISoft and SAP).
In SIRIUS these companies work with researchers from the University of Oslo, NTNU, the University of Oxford and Simula Research Laboratories.
The SIRIUS Space
The SIRIUS centre is located on the 8th floor of the Informatics Building at the University of Oslo. This SIRIUS Space provides an environment where:
- All University of Oslo researchers associated with the centre are located together.
- Space is available for visiting researchers from partners and collaborating institutions.
- The facilities and décor establish a centre identity and provide a pleasant and attractive environment for partners to hold meetings and work when in the Oslo area. Our aim is to make the SIRIUS Space an attractive forum for the Oil and Gas IT industry in South-East Norway.