SINTEF - Petroleumsforskning AS

Sintef is a contract research and development institute focusing on developing new knowledge and technology for exploration and production of petroleum resources, both nationally and internationally. Particular specialities are advanced drilling and integrated operations, CO₂ storage and field development studies as well as multiphase flow assurance through its world class industrial scale multiphase flow laboratories.

In the RISCS project, Sintef will contribute with its experience and competence within several areas; Identification of credible scenarios for leakage of CO₂ from a storage complex through modelling, set-up of a field laboratory for CO₂ leakage experiments and its general expertise in the many aspects of CO₂ storage.

 

Sintef has a 40-year-old track record in petroleum research and has made considerable contributions to Norwegian exploration and production technology. These are recognised all over the world for their high quality and standards.

 

Sintef has been working with underground storage of CO₂ in relevance to the climate change issue since 1986. The projects have included all aspects of the storage scheme including EOR, transport infrastructure integration, economy and climate modelling. Since 1993 SPR has been participating in EU projects, starting with the “Underground storage of CO₂” in the Joule II programme, and including finished and ongoing projects such as SACS, SACS2, CO₂Store, ULCOS, CASTOR, CO₂GeoNet, CO₂ReMoVe and ECCO. SPR is today an active partner for Gassnova, Gassco and the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate in the work for establishing safe storage for CO₂ from the Mongstad and Kårstø plants, having delivered three reservoir studies during the last year on this topic.

 

The institute collaborates with other research institutes, with a number of universities and in particular with NTNU (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology).