Torbjørn Røe Isaksen, the Norwegian Minister of Research and Education, promised greater funding for his sector, emphasising that the Ocean Space Centre needs to be built to enable us to...
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MARINTEK has just received NOK 50 million from the Research Council of Norway’s Large-scale Infrastructure Fund. The Institute won in fact 10 per cent of the total of MNOK 500 made available....
The 1st Ocean Technology Summit took place June 4th 2013, during Nor-Shipping 2013. The conference proved to be a huge success, both in terms of the chosen topics (green shipping and arctic...
Eli Aamot is appointed as the new Executive Vice-President at SINTEF Materials and Chemistry. Eli Aamot comes to us from Statoil and her position as Manager Plant Integrity for the Heidrun field....
Professor Vincent Eijsink, NMBU (Norwegian University of Life Sciences), received this year’s Bioenergy Innovation Award under “CenBio day” 17 to 19 March 2015. Eijsink receives the price for his...
The Brazilian oil company Petrobras relies heavily on floating production storage and offloading units, commonly called FPSOs, to exploit deep water and ultra deep water petroleum fields. SINTEF...
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Moving underground
In spite of its small size, Singapore has a population of five million, and it is an important communications node for both sea and air. This is why the authorities are now considering moving some...
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Robot kids
...“We bump into challenges all the time, and we experiment with various techniques.” Erik Kyrkjebø lowers his hands to his side and looks down. On the floor in front of us lie Aiko, Anna Konda,...
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On track – talking back
Imagine a world in which everything that you own is numbered and catalogued. All your shoes; every piece of clothing. A world in which nothing can be regarded as private, but where everything can...
Once upon a time, offshore platforms were secure communities in which production was controlled by closed processes that were isolated from the external world. Today, the picture is somewhat...
Eirik Bøckmann tests an artificial whale tail in the model ship tank at Tyholt. Photo: Ingvil Snøfugl, Siw Hermanstad, Marintek/SINTEF WAVE FOIL: Researchers from the Norwegian University...
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New flexible ticketing on buses
By using a shared computer installed in the bus, passengers can pay however they like, regardless of local ticketing systems. What's more, this leaves the bus companies free to choose the...