Saline aquifer storage of carbon dioxide in the Sleipner project
- Statoil Research Centre, Trondheim (Norway)
The offshore gas field named Sleipner--after the mythological horse with eight legs--is situated right in the middle of the North Sea, near the border line between United Kingdom and Norway. The distance from the nearest town on the Norwegian coast, Stavanger, is 240 km. Together with the even larger Troll gas field further north, Sleipner will produce a larger part of Norway`s gas supply to the European Union. It will function as a hub for a number of pipelines transferring this gas from north to south. The field is licensed to the companies Statoil, Esso Norge, Norsk Hydro, Elf Petroleum Norge and TOTAL Norge; with Statoil as field operator. The field was first discovered in 1974 with the gas containing reservoirs laying around 3,500 m under the sea bed. The natural gas coming from the reservoir contains 9% CO{sub 2}, while customer defined maximum is 2.5%. The extracted CO{sub 2} will be injected into the Utsira aquifer some 1000 meters under the sea through a separate injection well, instead of venting the nearly 1 million tonnes of CO{sub 2} yearly to the atmosphere.
- OSTI ID:
- 624037
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9610136-; ISSN 0956-053X; TRN: IM9820%%4
- Journal Information:
- Waste Management, Vol. 17, Issue 5-6; Conference: International symposium on ocean disposal of carbon dioxide, Tokyo (Japan), 31 Oct - 1 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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