Welcome to Svalex 2010

Svalex is a multidisciplinary integration of students attending petroleum related courses at the Norwegian Universities UiO, UiB, NTNU, UiT, UiS and UNIS. Svalex provides three main arenas for learning: The UNIS campus in Longyearbyen, Svalbard; the cruise liner M/S Expedition, conveying the participants across Isfjorden and surrounding fjords of Svalbard; and the seismic vessel M/S Håkon Mosby, which will carry out seismic acquisition.

Svalex has been run since 2001 with more than 1200 participants in total.

Approximately 90 students and 30 professors together with invited guests follow the field course. The students are grouped in multidisciplinary teams consisting of students with geology, geophysics and petroleum technology as background. Svalex 2010 will be arranged in the period 21. August to 31. August

To qualify for Svalex 2010 participation all students will have to complete a precourse to be announced March 15th. Further information regarding details of Svalex 2010 will be given on this website.

The project is sponsored by Statoil’s partnership agreements with the Norwegian universities.

Egil Tjåland, NTNU
Svalex project leader