In a world facing major climate challenges, natural gas plays a key role, since it emits far less greenhouse gasses than coal and oil.
This makes gas an attractive source of energy from the perspective of climate change.
StatoilHydro is working hard to limit its emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in
connection with the production of oil and gas.
The group is a pioneer in the field of carbon capture and storage. As early as 1996, StatoilHydro started injecting and storing one million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from the Sleipner gas field – a project which has attracted a
lot of attention around the world.
StatoilHydro is currently engaged in three large-scale commercial projects
involving carbon dioxide capture and storage: the underground injection of
carbon dioxide on the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea and on the In Salah field
in Algeria, and the carbon capture and storage facility at the Mongstad refinery
in Norway.
