Changing the Oil Industry by Making Better Wells
InflowControl is a Norwegian technology company that improves oil production with the use of reservoir management technologies. Our vision is to change the oil industry to become more sustainable and cost efficient.
InflowControl is a Norwegian technology company with proven experience from developing and introducing new Autonomous Inflow Control Devices (AICD) into a conservative oil industry. During the last two-decades, the use of inflow control technologies has dramatically improved well production, resulting in increased recovery factors, reduced water cut and gas oil ratio, drainage efficiency and wellbore cleanup.
InflowControl's focus is to provide technology to oil and gas operators which supports them in 'Making Better Wells'. AICV® technology enables oil companies to greatly lower production costs by reducing and/or stopping unwanted gas and water production yet increasing oil production and recovery.
To ensure the execution and delivery of our top-quality products, InflowControl’s headquarters, engineering, R&D and production facilities are located in Norway. We find it crucial for our teams of international experts to work in close cooperation with one another, whether they be engineers, scientists, or manufacturers, so we may offer uniquely catered support to our clients.
With many of these clients situated outside of Norway, we also know it is necessary to be where you are. Therefore, we have offices set up across the globe, onsite and side-by-side with leading reservoir experts, allowing us to work together when it comes to solving today’s reservoir management issues, including excessive contaminated water, greenhouse gas emissions, and skyrocketing production costs.
Dr Vidar Mathiesen
Dr. Ing. Vidar Mathiesen is the CEO and one of the founders of InflowControl. He has been head of technical research support at Statoil’s research center and has extensively experience from innovation and product development, qualification, delivery and production, installation and evaluation of inflow control as Leading Research Scientist at Statoil. Vidar has written a number of publications published in international journals and conferences, he has a number of patents in the field and has received several innovation awards. He is one of the inventors of both the AICV® and the Statoil's AICD - the RCP. He was nominated for the World Oil Innovative Thinker Award 2021.
Bjørnar Werswick
Bjørnar Werswick is COO and co-founder of InflowControl. He has 25 years' experience in innovation, product development and design in addition to qualification, manufacturing and installation of inflow control technology from Norsk Hydro, Equinor and InflowControl. He also has extensive experience in mechanical engineering, material selection, manufacturing technology and well completion. Bjørnar has submitted several patents/patent applications in this field. Bjørnar is also director of the board in InflowControl. He earned a B.Eng. degree in mechanical engineering from University of South-Eastern Norway in 1997.
Brent Brough
Brent Brough is CCO of InflowControl with over 20 years of international experience. Having lived in Canada, Russia, UK, Norway and UAE, Brent has a track record of managing and leading global teams from both large and small technology companies which delivered growth. He has board director experience in O&G tech and venture backed start-up companies. Earning an MBA in 2012 from Warwick Business School - specialized in Global Energy- and in 1999 graduated from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Chemical Engineering.
Maria Tho
Maria Tho is CFO of InflowControl and has more than 15 years of experience from senior finance and strategy positions with multinational and national enterprises. With a cross-industry experience including technology, banking, finance, travel, retail and more she has worked with several companies experiencing high levels of organic and inorganic growth. She earned a master’s degree in Professional Accountancy from the Institute of BI Norwegian School of Management in 2008 and a bachelor’s degree in Auditing from Oslo University College in 2003.
Dr Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail
Dr Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail is CTO of InflowControl with more than 20 years of global experience within advanced completions, petroleum engineering and research & development. He has extensive experience in designing and modeling autonomous and passive nozzle completions and has written a number of publications published in international journals and conferences. Dr Mohd Ismail holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Leeds, UK and was Distinguished Lecturer within SPE for inflow control technology disciplines in 2018/2019.
The historical development of Inflow Control Technology
1990's
First known Passive ICD (inflow control device) installed in Norway. ICD's resolved shortcomings of OH Horizontal wells. ICD introduced a pressure drop from the reservoir into the well and managed better non uniform inflow profiles along well.
Early 2000's
Statoil-Troll used passive ICD's as standard design to delay un-wanted Gas breakthrough (BT) Issues were encountered as they realized ICDs delayed Gas BT cap but were not able to choke the gas.
2002-2005
Statoil still had production engineering needs to stop Gas breakthrough. Challenged service companies to come up solution(s) via a competition.
2006 - AICD
2006, Haavard Aakre and Vidar Mathiesen invented the RCP (Rate Controlled Production) valve; known as the Statoil AICD. Performance of RCP-AICD verified through dozens of installations. GOR reduced and oil production increased by ~20 % vs. ICDs.
2011 - InflowControl (AICV®)
In 2011 InflowControI was founded by Vidar Mathiesen, Haavard Aakre and Bjørnar Werswick.
The founders has over 15 years experience in Passive & Autonomous ICD from Statoil. In 2012 the Autonomous Inflow Control Valve (AICV®) was invented.
2013 — Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco Energy Venture invested in InflowControI.
2015 - AICV® Success
First global deployment was successful. Deployed and evaluated within Light, Medium and Heavy Oil applications.
2020 - AICV®
Over 100 wells successfully deployed. Ultra-Low Viscosity Oil AICVs qualified: >0.25 cP for gas shut off and >0.60 cP for water shut off Proven dramatic reduction in Gas and Water production & increased Oil recovery vs. ICD technology tested and proven within multiple world class flow loops (Norway, USA, Canada).
2022 - Milestone
Over 220 AICV® wells successfully deployed in five different continents.
2024 - Milestone
Over 300 AICV® wells successfully deployed globally.
