Press Releases

Petrobras and SINTEF have signed a General Research and Development agreement.The agreement was signed on 26th of August, as a part of the Innovation Norway Brazil Day at ONS in Stavanger, Norway.

IRIS and SINTEF together with the universities in Trondheim (NTNU) and Stavanger (UiS) have just established an international Center for Drilling and Wells for Improved Recovery in cooperation with major oil companies. The objectives are to contribute to improve Norwegian oil production and safety levels.

New Partnership to Develop Next Generation of Intelligent Hearing Protection and Communication Technology for Offshore Energy Industry

SINTEF is cooperating with Statoil and the technology company Nacre in the development of next-generation hearing protection and communication technology for the offshore industry.

In June SINTEF and the Norwegian Embassy in Dehli signed an agreement with aim of reducing India’s waste and environmental problems.

His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway on Thursday April 29 opened a new CO2 research and development facility at the research institute SINTEF in Norway. The new test facility aims to develop more effective carbon capture solvents.

The fuels cell that four Scandinavian industrial companies are developing in collaboration with SINTEF could supply power to trailers and fork-lift trucks.

SINTEF has signed a memorandum of understanding with Stellenbosch University, which is recognised as one of the four best research-driven universities in South Africa.

Oddvar Eide has been appointed as SINTEF President for MARINTEK

Hanne Rønneberg has been appointed as the new Executive Vice President of SINTEF Building and Infrastructure. Rønneberg has a wide range of experience in several branches of the construction industry, and she is currently Senior Vice President Green in the Skanska Group.

Medical sensors and sensor systems, personal health systems and smart textiles: the pHealth workshop that will be held in Oslo on June 24 – 26 will show off the latest advances on the technology front for home-based healthcare.

Using open international standards and new technology will contribute substantially to a sustainable development of the Norwegian construction industry.

Rasmus Sunde (48) has been elected as chair of SINTEF’s Board. He succeeds Jan Erik Korssjøen, who is leaving after six years in the chair.

SINTEF produced good scientific and financial results in 2008. The result for the year was NOK 137 million. Our repeatedly good results have enabled us to make new investments in laboratories and scientific research. In 2008, SINTEF invested MNOK 146 in laboratories and scientific equipment.

The international energy companies E.ON, ScottishPower and Statkraft have underlined their commitment to meeting the climate challenges by joining SOLVit - a pioneering R&D programme into carbon capture technology, led by Aker Clean Carbon, the Norwegian CO2 technology company. The R&D institute SINTEF and the university NTNU are selected research partners.

SINTEF Petroleum Research and the Stavanger-based company Hitec Products Drilling AS are setting up a new company that aims to improve the efficiency of offshore drilling and well operations.

The following Press Release was distributed by Kongsberg Maritime on Wednesday, October 22, 2008:

A scientific research and development programme worth more than NOK 300 million is being launched in Norway with the aim of generating more cost effective technology for CO2-capture. The project is one of the biggest of its kind to date.

SINTEF is the third most popular Norwegian company when technology students choose their ”dream employer”.

SINTEF obtained good academic and financial results in 2007, with a profit of NOK 254 million, the best ever made by the Group. None of the owners of the Group can draw a dividend form SINTEF’s profits, and the result thus enables us to make new investments in laboratories and research efforts.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and SINTEF of Norway have agreed to launch a joint collaborative to develop and offer services to international clients in the field of Building Technology and Civil Engineering. Areas of particular interest on the international market are building information modelling, geotechnical engineering and issues connected with climate change.

Care dwellings are unsuitable for the most feeble elderly people and those with dementia. This finding emerged from an interview study that SINTEF has carried out in 12 Norwegian municipalities on behalf of the Norwegian Nurses Organisation.

SINTEF is to lead the EU’s latest research project on CO2 capture in coal- and gas-fired power stations. The project involves 14 partners from eight different countries, and has a total budget of more than twice the Norwegian parliament’s annual funding for research of this sort.

Aker Kværner, SINTEF and NTNU are to cooperate on the development of new CO2 technology. The Trondheim scientists claim that the new agreement could produce cuts in emissions that would make a real difference on a global scale.

This week, three Norwegian institutes established a Chilean company for applied aquaculture research. The name of the new company, AVS Chile SA, reflects the three mother institutes that join their knowledge in fish biology, fish health and aquaculture technology.

Eivind Grøv (49) of SINTEF has been elected Vice-president of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association.

New technology from SINTEF is capable of removing the worst contaminants from water - purifying it so thoroughly that it becomes ultra pure. SINTEF’s new spin-off company ECOWAT AS is turning the invention into a commercial product.

The SINTEF spin-off company Nacre has been acquired by Bacou-Dalloz, world leader in the design, manufacturing and sales of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE). Nacre will continue its operations from the headquarter in Trondheim, Norway.

A new Norwegian invention will stop planes and helicopters from colliding with high-tension power lines, wind turbines, communications towers and offshore platforms.

The Norwegian government has launched six new Centres for Research-based Innovation. A total of 14 CRIs have been established.

2006 was a good year for SINTEF in both economic and scientific terms. The research group made an annual profit of NOK 92 million, an increase of NOK 33 million over the result from 2005. On the scientific side, one of several highlights is our participation in eight of Norway’s new Centres for Research-based Innovation.

The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim) has fined SINTEF Petroleum Research (SPR) NOK 2 million in connection with a consulting contract signed with an Iranian company in 2002. “We accept the fine”, says SPR President May Britt Myhr.

On October 27, 2006 The Ministry of Economy and Trade of Moldova signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation with SINTEF on launching the Program for Supporting the Development of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Republic of Moldova, “ENTRANSE 2 Your Business”.

Norway could soon have one of the world’s first field laboratories for studies of CO2 storage in bedrock.

The Trondheim technology company Nacre AS has won a contract to supply its QUIETPRO combined communications terminal and hearing protection system to the US Marines.

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has entered into a strategic alliance with the research organization SINTEF to develop the technological environment in Trondheim internationally. The aim is to be among the world leaders in selected areas of R&D. On the domestic scene both institutions want greater political influence.

SINTEF has entered into a cooperation with the Four Seasons Venture Group, one of the Nordic region’s leading venture capital and private equity firms. The agreement provides SINTEF with increased access to capital and competence to industrialise ideas and technology that have sprung from its research environment.

Eurofighter offers SINTEF the unique opportunity to pursue its development of an intelligent noise reduction/hearing protection and communication transceiver suitable for use in a fighter aircraft cockpit.

Nor-Fishing, the well-known fisheries trade fair held every second year in Trondheim, Norway, now has its scientific twin. The programme is now ready for the new biannual Nor-Fishing Technology Conference which will be held from August 6 - 8, 2006 in Trondheim.

The Research Council of Norway announced June 16, 2006 the names of the successful applicants who wish to establish Centres for Research-based Innovation (CRIs). SINTEF did very well in the allocation process, and is a participant in eight of the 14 centres.

On Monday June 19, Odd Roger Enoksen, Norway’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy ll opened the world’s biggest conference on CO2 capture and storage in Trondheim.

The Research Council of Norway announced last week the names of the successful applicants who wish to establish Centres for Research-based Innovation (CRIs). SINTEF did very well in the allocation process, and is a participant in eight of the 14 centres.

A delegation from Sudan led by Minister of Health Tabeta Butrus Shokai was received on June 13, 2006 by Jan Solberg, Vice-President of SINTEF, and Research Director Arne H. Eide of SINTEF Health Research.

Odd Eriksen, Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry, IBM director Morten Meyer and other leading lights from research and industry will open the RFID Innovation Centre at SINTEF on May 8.

The SINTEF Group made a profit of NOK 59 million in 2005, an improvement of MNOK 83 on the previous year’s result.

Reidar Bye has been appointed Senior Executive Vice President of SINTEF with immediate effect. He will continue as Executive Vice President of Finance (CFO). As Senior Executive Vice President, Bye will act as deputy for SINTEF President Unni Steinsmo. The new position will strengthen the SINTEF Group’s management team.

This summer, Trondheim will host the world’s biggest ever conference on greenhouse gas control technologies.

SINTEF Building And Infrastructure: A new division in the SINTEF Group

On August 22nd 2005, during the BRU Seminar, NTNU and SINTEF signed an agreement for the establishment of a new Gemini Center in the area of "Better Resource Utilization of Oil and Gas".

SINTEF still has something to learn about doing business in foreign cultures, but the experience we have gained will help to make our company even stronger in the future.

Fourteen leading Canadian nanotechnology scientists will be visiting Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway between November 20 and December 1 this year.

On Thursday November 3, SINTEF was visited by a Romanian delegation led by State Secretary Anton Anton, who is in charge of Romania’s research sector.

With the aim in mind of recognising persons and institutions that have adopted advanced technology NTNU and SINTEF have founded the Einar Brendeng Technology Prize. The first award of the Prize has been made to Statoil's Snøhvit project.

SINTEF is helping to create badly needed jobs in the war-ravaged Balkans.

Technoport is the technology festival in Trondheim, with more than 150 exhibitors, 40 conferences and work shops, Techno Match and Technology Awards! The venue is at Trondheim Spectrum on October 19-22, 2005. SINTEF Petroleum Research will present the history of multiphase flow with a 15m poster wall and a full oil and gas production system - including an oil platform.

The Norwegian Building Research Institute and SINTEF’s building and construction research groups are merging to form SINTEF Building Research AS, which will be formally established on January 1, 2006.

SINTEF and The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) will present information about projects and focus areas for research at stand D-341 at Aqua Nor 2005. You can also see new technology developed to perform on-line measuring of fillets.

SINTEF Petroleum Research AS has purchased 10% of the shares of the Trondheim company ResLab - Reservoir Laboratories AS. From now on, the two companies will operate hand in hand vis-à-vis the international petroleum industry market.

Jan Solberg has been appointed as new Senior Executive Vice President of the SINTEF Group. Today Solberg is Secretary General of the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry.

On February 15, Thorhild Widvey, Minister of Petroleum and Energy, will be visiting SINTEF and NTNU.

Informal discussions have been going on for some time between the Norwegian Building Research Institute and SINTEF regarding a possible union of the Institute with SINTEF’s building and construction-related units.