Centre for research on CO2 storage opened

The opening took place at IFE, Kjeller, and CMR President Arvid Nøttvedt welcomed the about 50 invited guests.

- SUCCESS has a vision of contributing to safe CO₂ storage. Our ambition is to develop knowledge that will assure people of CO₂ storage as a safe and viable solution for the future, said Arvid Nøttvedt (CMR) in his opening speech.

Arvid Nøttvedt, President CMR, opened the new SUCCESS centre with among other things pointing out the big business opportunities in CO₂ storage.

The SUCCESS centre is a consortium of research and industry partners, and has status as Centre for Environment-friendly Energy Research (CEER) with financial support over an eight year period from the Research Council of Norway. During the period the centre will educate 35 PhD and Post. Docs in the CO₂ School, an integrated part of the centre’s activities.

Local focus with global potential
- We want SUCCESS to contribute to CO₂ storage becoming a profitable enterprise for the industry. We will concentrate our efforts on the storage conditions on the Norwegian shelf, but the knowledge we are developing will have global application, Nøttvedt underlined.

More information about the SUCCESS centre here.

IFE CO₂ centre
Parallel to the start-up of the SUCCESS collaboration, IFE has made some internal adjustments to strengthen the research in the field of CO₂ management. IFE CO₂ centre has been established as a multidisciplinary unit that will coordinate CO₂-related activities in several different disciplines. Harald Johansen is centre manager.

- IFE CO₂ centre is to strenthen and tie together the environment that already exists at IFE today, that is scattered around at many departments, sais Harald Johansen.