One of the goals of NTNU is to contribute to national value creation on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and to the internationalization of the Norwegian petroleum industry. In order to achieve this goal, NTNU will deliver long-term educational competence as well as long-term technical and scientific R&D solutions.

Research is conducted on a range of technologies and issues related to natural gas use:

• Reservoir technology (including CO2-injection)
• Transport (multiphase pipelines and liquefied gas – LPG, LNG, LCO2 and LH2)
• Processing (fractionating, dew point control, compression)
• Chemical conversion (syn-gas production, polyolefines) and power generation from natural gas (gas turbines, fuel cells, CO2-management)
• Hydrogen from natural gas (production, transport, storage and end use)
• Coordination of the natural gas value chain in liberalized energy markets
• Societal issues

The Research infrastructure

The Research Infrastructure offers foreign researchers access to an integrated complex of 14 unique laboratories for focused and trans-boundary research within the field of environmental gas management. These laboratories are designed to solve problems related to reducing emissions from the entire technology chain from energy source to end user. The laboratories have been successfully used in developing new innovative technology and solutions, together with global industrial partners (http://www.ntnu.no/engas/).