Norway has gained acceptance for a proposal to change international regulations so that CO2 may be exported to other countries.

- What we need of infrastructure is no more than we already have today, in order to export oil and gas from the North Sea to the Europeaan continent, Lindeberg says.

- Five large pipelines between the North Sea and the Continent is all we need to form the backbone of such a system, he says.

We could also add that every year since 1996, Norwegian Statoil has captured one million tonnes of carbon dioxide from natural gas production at Sleipner West and stored it in an aquifer more than 800 metres below the seabed. On Sleipner, carbon dioxide is captured using a conventional amine process and stored in geological layers.

(NRK)

Rolleiv Solholm