Mitigating Disaster--A Look at the Ohmsett Oil Spill Research and Test Facility

Robin Beckwith, Staff Writer JPT/JPT Online
What is Ohmsett, and why is it so critical to the development of oil spill prevention and mitigation technology?

Robin Beckwith, Staff Writer JPT/JPT Online
What is Ohmsett, and why is it so critical to the development of oil spill prevention and mitigation technology?

Tore A. Torp is adviser for CO2 storage at Statoil.
International energy and climate organizations have found carbon capture and storage (CCS) to be a promising technology to resolve the squeeze between fast-growing global energy needs and global warming. Even environmental organizations say that making our energy use more efficient and building enough new renewable energy capacity takes too long. We need to get the CCS working to curb the growing greenhouse gas emissions if too large a climate change is to be avoided.

Robin Beckwith, Staff Writer JPT/JPT Online
Earlier this year, a Cornell University professor made quite a splash publishing a paper asserting that emissions from shale gas rivaled those from coal. A July 2011 study issued by the Post Carbon Institute underscored this conclusion. Not so, say five separate recent reports.