Norway
Links to CCS-related Information in Norway
- The Gas Technology Center, NTNU-SINTEF
The Gas Technology Center of NTNU-SINTEF in Trondheim, Norway, is an academic research center whose activities are mainly funded by the Research Council of Norway and Norwegian industry
- GEMINI
Research News from the SINTEF group and NTNU
- Institute for Energy Technology (IFE)
The Research Institute for Energy and Nuclear Technology in Norway is an independent foundation established in 1948 with departments at Kjeller and in Halden. With a staff of about 550, IFE is an international research centre for nuclear and energy technology.
- The KLIMATEK Research Programme
KLIMATEK is a US$70 million, 5-year Norwegian National Technology Programme to promote technology for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Norwegian Research Council launched KLIMATEK in mid-1997 and currently projects ranging from CO2 separation to direct biological fixation of CO2 have been initiated.
- Ministry of Petroleum and Energy - Environment 2003 The Norwegian Petroleum Sector
Preserving the natural environment is an integral part of Norway's energy policy. Good knowledge of environmental effects from petroleum activities on the continental shelf is accordingly important, and Environment 2003 represents a contribution to this. Includes a theme section on using and storing of CO2 on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
- Ministry of Petroleum and Energy Report No. 9 to the Storting (2002-2003) On Domestic Use of Natural Gas, etc.
Unofficial translation from Norwegian
- Saline Aquifer CO2 Storage (SACS)
A demonstration and monitoring project at the Sleipner field.
- Statoil - Carbon Dioxide Storage Prized
Unwanted carbon dioxide from Statoil's Sleipner West field in the Norwegian North Sea is being stored 1,000 metres beneath the seabed. This solution won the Chief Executive's Health, Safety and Environmental Prize for 2000.
- Statoil - "The Sleipner West Field: Carbon Storage 1,000 Meters Down" (film)
Statoil has prepared a short video on the Sleipner project in the North Sea.
- Statoil - Snohvit - The World's Northernmost LNG Project
Snohvit-field - Snohvit embraces the first export facility for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Norway and Europe. Huge volumes of gas deep beneath the Barents Sea will be piped ashore, cooled down and shipped by special carrier to Spain and the USA.
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