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Statoil and Shell were planning on building a gas-fired powerplant in Norway that would infuse CO2 underground or beneath the seabed, but they discarded the plan due to economic reasons.
Statoil has injected CO2 into the Utsira formation on the Sleipner gas field for environmental storage purposes since 1996. Natural gas containing approximately 8.5% CO2 is produced on the Sleipner Vest field. The gas is transported to the Sleipner Treatment platform, where the CO2 is removed. The gas is exported to the UK, Germany and Belgium, and the CO2 is injected into the Utsira formation.
The world's first operational deep-water floating large-capacity wind turbine is the Hywind, launched by Statoil in 2009. The 2.3 MW turbine can be anchored in water 120–700 m deep. It will be tested off the coast of Norway for two years. The 120-meter-tall tower with a 2.3 MW turbine was towed 10 km offshore into the Amoy Fjord, in 220-meter-deep water, off of Stavanger, Norway on 2009-06-06 for a two-year test run. The unit became operational in the summer of 2009, and was formally inaugurated on 8 September 2009.
The Hydrogen Technologies division, located in Notodden in the county of Telemark, is widely regarded as a world leader in alkaline electrolysis technology, used to generate hydrogen and oxygen from water. When powered by clean, renewable energy sources, hydrogen represents an alternative energy storage medium that could one-day fill the void created when the world's fossil-fuel reserves have been fully depleted.
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