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Erik Lindeberg

Chief Scientist of Reservoir Technology
SINTEF Petroleum Research

Name

Erik Lindeberg
Job Title

Chief Scientist of Reservoir Technology

Organisation

SINTEF Petroleum Research
Field

Research
Speciality

Carbon Capture and Storage

Biography

Biography

Erik Lindeberg has been researching the idea of Carbon Capture and Storage since the 1980’s, when it was an infant technology. As Chief Scientist of Reservoir Technology at SINTEF Petroleum Research, Scandinavia’s largest independent research organisation, he has been an advocate of CCS as a way to overcome the climate problems caused by excessive anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide. He has been working on issues related to CO2 storage for more than twenty years, including separation, transport and storage. His main research is now directed towards the safe sequestration of CO2 in geological formations such as disused oil and gas reservoirs and saline aquifers. Dr. Lindeberg has taught in his native Norway and has many years experience in laboratory work, particularly phase behaviour and core flooding with relevance to Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 storage. He received his doctorate in physical chemistry at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1981.