Press Releases

SINTEF Petroleum Research and the Stavanger-based company Hitec Products Drilling AS are setting up a new company that aims to improve the efficiency of offshore drilling and well operations.

The following Press Release was distributed by Kongsberg Maritime on Wednesday, October 22, 2008:

A scientific research and development programme worth more than NOK 300 million is being launched in Norway with the aim of generating more cost effective technology for CO2-capture. The project is one of the biggest of its kind to date.

SINTEF is the third most popular Norwegian company when technology students choose their ”dream employer”.

SINTEF obtained good academic and financial results in 2007, with a profit of NOK 254 million, the best ever made by the Group. None of the owners of the Group can draw a dividend form SINTEF’s profits, and the result thus enables us to make new investments in laboratories and research efforts.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and SINTEF of Norway have agreed to launch a joint collaborative to develop and offer services to international clients in the field of Building Technology and Civil Engineering. Areas of particular interest on the international market are building information modelling, geotechnical engineering and issues connected with climate change.

Care dwellings are unsuitable for the most feeble elderly people and those with dementia. This finding emerged from an interview study that SINTEF has carried out in 12 Norwegian municipalities on behalf of the Norwegian Nurses Organisation.

SINTEF is to lead the EU’s latest research project on CO2 capture in coal- and gas-fired power stations. The project involves 14 partners from eight different countries, and has a total budget of more than twice the Norwegian parliament’s annual funding for research of this sort.

Aker Kværner, SINTEF and NTNU are to cooperate on the development of new CO2 technology. The Trondheim scientists claim that the new agreement could produce cuts in emissions that would make a real difference on a global scale.

This week, three Norwegian institutes established a Chilean company for applied aquaculture research. The name of the new company, AVS Chile SA, reflects the three mother institutes that join their knowledge in fish biology, fish health and aquaculture technology.

Eivind Grøv (49) of SINTEF has been elected Vice-president of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association.

New technology from SINTEF is capable of removing the worst contaminants from water - purifying it so thoroughly that it becomes ultra pure. SINTEF’s new spin-off company ECOWAT AS is turning the invention into a commercial product.

The SINTEF spin-off company Nacre has been acquired by Bacou-Dalloz, world leader in the design, manufacturing and sales of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE). Nacre will continue its operations from the headquarter in Trondheim, Norway.

A new Norwegian invention will stop planes and helicopters from colliding with high-tension power lines, wind turbines, communications towers and offshore platforms.

The Norwegian government has launched six new Centres for Research-based Innovation. A total of 14 CRIs have been established.

2006 was a good year for SINTEF in both economic and scientific terms. The research group made an annual profit of NOK 92 million, an increase of NOK 33 million over the result from 2005. On the scientific side, one of several highlights is our participation in eight of Norway’s new Centres for Research-based Innovation.

The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim) has fined SINTEF Petroleum Research (SPR) NOK 2 million in connection with a consulting contract signed with an Iranian company in 2002. “We accept the fine”, says SPR President May Britt Myhr.

On October 27, 2006 The Ministry of Economy and Trade of Moldova signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation with SINTEF on launching the Program for Supporting the Development of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Republic of Moldova, “ENTRANSE 2 Your Business”.

Norway could soon have one of the world’s first field laboratories for studies of CO2 storage in bedrock.

The Trondheim technology company Nacre AS has won a contract to supply its QUIETPRO combined communications terminal and hearing protection system to the US Marines.

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has entered into a strategic alliance with the research organization SINTEF to develop the technological environment in Trondheim internationally. The aim is to be among the world leaders in selected areas of R&D. On the domestic scene both institutions want greater political influence.

SINTEF has entered into a cooperation with the Four Seasons Venture Group, one of the Nordic region’s leading venture capital and private equity firms. The agreement provides SINTEF with increased access to capital and competence to industrialise ideas and technology that have sprung from its research environment.

Eurofighter offers SINTEF the unique opportunity to pursue its development of an intelligent noise reduction/hearing protection and communication transceiver suitable for use in a fighter aircraft cockpit.

Nor-Fishing, the well-known fisheries trade fair held every second year in Trondheim, Norway, now has its scientific twin. The programme is now ready for the new biannual Nor-Fishing Technology Conference which will be held from August 6 - 8, 2006 in Trondheim.

The Research Council of Norway announced June 16, 2006 the names of the successful applicants who wish to establish Centres for Research-based Innovation (CRIs). SINTEF did very well in the allocation process, and is a participant in eight of the 14 centres.