Saline aquifer storage of carbon dioxide in the Sleipner project

Abstract The offshore gas field named Sleipner—after the mythological horse with eight legs—is situated right in the middle of the North Sea, near the border line between United Kingdom and Norway. The distance from the nearest town on the Norwegian coast, Stavanger, is 240 km. A map is shown in Fig. 1. Together with the even larger Troll gas field further north. Sleipner will produce a larger part of Norway's gas supply to the European Union. It will function as a hub for a number of pipelines transferring this gas from north to south. The field is licenced to the companies Statoil, Esso Norge, Norsk Hydro, Elf Petroleum Norge and TOTAL Norge; with Statoil as field operator. The field was first discovered in 1974 with the gas containing reservoirs laying around 3500 m under the sea bed.