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Several years of Norwegian research on fracture mechanics have resulted in new numerical modelling tools. The new software means that we can calculate the risk of fracture in pipelines much more...

Contact:  Jack Arild Ødegård  Several years of Norwegian research on fracture mechanics have resulted in new numerical modelling tools. The new software means that we can calculate...

A Nobel Prize was awarded when "high-temperature superconductors" were discovered in 1986. Now the world has at last found an application for lossless conductors, thanks to two Norwegians...

Many physicists were extremely optimistic when high-temperature superconductors were discovered. But not everyone shared their belief. “I am a physicist too. But I did not believe in the energy...

Contact: Odd-Geir Lademo  The Research Council of Norway has granted NOK 24 million to the four-year project NEXT-Drill, in which scientists and industry will develop the technology and tools...

This year’s Diversity Award has gone to SINTEF. The jury based its choice on the fact that we have managed to create an international environment of highly competent staff from many different...

Norwegian researchers have developed the world's first sensor capable of measuring individual particles in a blood sample. This new innovation could cause a sensation in the medical world. Our...

SINTEF and the South Korean research institute Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) have signed a memorandum of understanding regarding collaboration. Multiphase transport of oil and...

Lars Sørum appointed new head at SINTEF Petroleum Research Sørum thus becomes leader of one of SINTEF’s eight research institutes and a member of SINTEF’s Group Management. Sørum is...

The IT Age is upon us, and it overflows with high technology. This is how the computer shown below became a tool for two Nobel Prizewinners.   Thomas Hysing, the father of Nusse, works on...

Norwegian control systems research has led to many products. One of the most sensational is a dynamic positioning system that keeps vessels in place without the use of anchors. Automatic vessel...

Most Japanese people heat their water using gas. However, some of them have chosen an alternative technology developed in Norway that leads to major reductions in CO₂ emissions. SINTEF’s Petter...

More efficient energy use and renewable resources by themselves are not sufficient to save the climate; carbon capture and storage are also essential. Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) is one of...

The riches of the continental shelf had to be brought up from ever greater depths as the pace of the petroleum age quickened; innovative thinking was essential.   The dream of every boy:...

The “GassOpt” software modelling tool, which was conceived in the 1990s, has created a great deal of value for Statoil – and for the Norwegian people. “GassOpt” shows the best way of utilising...

When you speak into a GSM mobile telephone, your call is transmitted via a radio system that SINTEF helped to develop. These SINTEF colleagues formed the research department of a short-lived...

Europe 1992: The term “HDTV” was on the lips of everyone in TV companies and the electronics industry. Meanwhile, Norwegian scientyists were finding a smart way to transmit the new images via the...

At last, the tiny bearded cod babies can be raised without regard to the whims of nature.   Year-old cod fry – hatched and raised at SINTEF’s Aquaculture Centre – here being looked after by...

The “From sand to solar cells” project was the start of a major Norwegian effort on silicon for solar cells -  and has helped to give Norwegian industry the yellow jersey in this field....

Two of its three principal national objectives were not met. Nevertheless, the “Intensions Agreement” regarding a more inclusive work-life the (IA Agreement) has been a success in many companies....