About the project
CCS deployment at gigatonne scale is vital for a just and sustainable transition to net-zero emissions, providing the potential to significantly reduce emissions from energy and industrial processes, and enable large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR).
The national research effort gigaCCS will advance Norway’s CCS leadership and support the global implementation of CCS at gigatonne scale by conducting targeted, interdisciplinary industry-driven research in a centre of excellence dedicated to fostering capacity and world-leading expertise.
Norwegian Research Centre of Excellence for Carbon Capture and Storage – gigaCCS
The research centre and consortium – gigaCCS – is an impactful collaboration between experts in leading Norwegian and international CCS industry and pioneering research groups equipped with the pan-European ECCSEL research infrastructure. gigaCCS will create competitive CCS technologies, increase value, and reduce risk for industry and society through strategic competence and capacity building, supporting the achievement of 2030 and 2050 emissions reduction targets.
Research will be organised into four Mission Areas (MA) covering the whole value chain; MA1: Capture and CDR; MA2: Infrastructure; MA3: Storage and MA4: CCS Value Chains. Use cases will provide an integrated approach across the MAs, performing holistic assessments of individual case studies specific to industry.
Read more about the centre at the main pages; Norwegian Research Centre of Excellence for Carbon Capture and Storage
Dept of Geosciences - A partner in gigaCCS
Researchers from Department of Geosciences are involved in the research in the gigaCCS centre in the work packages 3: MA3: Storage. Two Doctoral Research Fellows and one Postdoc will be financed through the gigaCCS centre, and also two Doctoral Research Fellows will be financed by University of Oslo, Dept of Geosciences.
University of Oslo Contact for gigaCCS is: Anita Torabi, Prof., Dept. of Geosciences
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