Nicoustic awarded funding

Nicoustic has been awarded NOK 15.45 million in funding from the Research Council of Norway.

The funding will support the final stages of R&D across ultrasound hardware, software, and algorithms, culminating in pilot deployments of non-intrusive level measurement technology on three offshore installations in Norway, together with operators.

The project has a total budget of more than NOK 43 million and will be carried out in close collaboration with Fraunhofer IKTS (Dresden) and SINTEF Multiphase Flow Laboratory (Trondheim) as R&D partners.

Can advance multiple markets

Nicoustic’ s non-intrusive level measurement technology has the potential to change how level is measured in process vessels—not only in the petroleum industry, but across a wide range of process industries.

By eliminating the need for intrusive instrumentation, the solution reduces costly turnarounds and production interruptions for installation and maintenance, while enabling improved level measurement in applications where this was previously not possible.

Ultimately, this contributes to safer, more efficient, and more reliable production with lower emissions.

The Research Council of Norway has been supporting this technology development project from the beginning, through the first IPN grant back in 2022.

Thanks to this support and also the support from the industry, Nicoustic has had considerable success with R&D activities aimed at advancing non-intrusive level measurement.

They will soon be ready for the first pilots offshore, according to Dmitri Gorski, the new CEO of Nicoustic:

– I am very pleased to see that the Research Council shares this view and supports our demonstration project. I am also very thankful to the three operators that share our vision of improved level instrumentation and offer their production platforms for the pilots. We see enormous appetite for the solution we are trying to develop in the market. To me, this is not surprising – why would you use an internally mounted level instrument for measurement, if a non-intrusive alternative is available?

Assistance from GCE Ocean Technology

GCE Ocean Technology has assisted Nicoustic in securing different types of innovation funding.

– The granted project application received top score from the Research Council. We used the assistance that GCE Ocean Technology offers its members with this kind of applications as quality assurance and a second pair of eyes and I am confident that this contributed to making our message more clear and structured, contributing to the overall success of the application, ends Gorski.