NORWEGIAN CARBON CAPTURE

There seems to be a global race to prove carbon dioxide can be economically captured and safely stored underground. It is one of those concepts that make you think, Man if this could only work…

Norway: Carbon capture, storage key
March 28, 2007 (UPI)

WHO
Odd Roger Enoksen, the Norwegian minister of petroleum and energy…

WHAT
Odd Roger expressed Norway’s serious commitment to perfecting carbon capture and storage…

WHEN
Odd Roger spoke Wednesday, March 28, 2007. Norway has been experimenting with carbon capture in geologic structures since 1996. Its large-scale Mongstad Project begins its first stage in 2010 and will go full-scale by the end of 2014.

WHERE

WHY
According to Odd Roger, Norway expects energy demand to increase so much by 2030 that carbon capture will be necessary.

QUOTES
"This arrangement will ensure that technological developments in Norway will have a growth in international revenues and will not be projected specifically in Norway…"