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Organization
Organizational structure
The Centre is organized with a General Assembly, a Board, a Scientific Committee, an Exploitation and
Innovation Advisory Committee and a Centre Director. The BIGCCS governance structure is shown in the
figure below.
The General Assembly (GA) is the ultimate decision-making body, ensuring that operations are carried
out in accordance with the Consortium Agreement. The GA had its 2014 meeting in Trondheim on
September 24. Ole Kristian Sollie (Shell) is the Chairman of the GA.
The Board is the operative decision-making body of the Centre. Two meetings were held in 2014; on
May 20 (Paris, France) and on November 27 (Trondheim). Members of the Board in 2014 were: Dr. Rune
Bredesen (SINTEF), Mr. Peter Britze (GEUS), Dr. Per Ivar Karstad (Statoil), Mr. Ole Lindefjeld (Conoco-
Phillips), Mr. Ole Kristian Sollie (Shell), Mr. Tom Steinskog (GDF SUEZ), Mr. Thorbjørn G. Svendsen
(Gassco), Prof. Hallvard Svendsen (NTNU), and Dr. Rune Teigland (TOTAL). Chairman of the Board is Dr.
Nils Røkke (SINTEF).
The Scientific Committee (SC) is an advisory committeewith leading international academics giving guid-
ance to the Centre related to scientific progress. The SC is chaired by Professor May-Britt Hägg (NTNU).
Dissemination
Innovation and centre building
Task1.3
Enabling H
2
fueled
gas turbines
Task1.4
Oxy-fuel technologies
Task1.5
Application to industry
and offshore
Task1.6
Integrated assessment
Task1.7
Looping technologies
Task2.1
CO
2
pipeline integrity
Task4.1
CO
2
chain analysis,
environmental impacts
and safety
PhD programme
Post-doc
programme
Researcher
exchange
Centre management
Board
General assembly
Task1.1
Solvent technology
Task1.2
Innovative membrane
technologies
Task2.2
CO
2
mixture properties
CO
2
Capture
SP 2
CO
2
Transport
SP 3
CO
2
Storage
CO
2
Value Chain
SP 4
SP5
Academia
SP 1
Task3.3
Monitoring
CO
2
reservoir
containment
Task3.5
Well integrity
Task3.6
Enabling large scale
CO
2
storage and EOR
Task3.4
Technical committees
Scientific committee
Exploitation and
innovation advisory
committee