Grunnlag for storskala CO₂ lagring på norsk sokkel

The pilot project includes preparatory work to establish a national initiative for knowledge and method development, which will enable large-scale CO₂ storage on the Norwegian shelf (> 10 Mt CO₂ / year) from 2018.

Key tasks in the preliminary project is to anchor the project idea with industry and authorities, concretize the content of a main project, build a consortium and clarify the framework for a main project.

The pilot project is led by the FMEs BIGCCS and SUCCESS in collaboration and includes Norwegian research actors in CO₂ storage. An important objective for a main project is to ensure coordination of the Norwegian research communities’ efforts, in order to close the gap between the basic research in FMEs and other research projects and commercial CO₂ storage on a large scale. Interaction with industry and authorities is important to ensure relevance. Opportunities for international cooperation will be explored.