1997: Statoil, Norway’s state-owned oil company begins capturing and storing its CO2 under the seabed (Economist, 2007).
Reference: Economist. 2007. http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9217908
Image Description: North Sea oil platform as seen from Oosterdam. Photo taken 2003Aug by Stan Shebs. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:North_Sea_oil_platform.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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