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| EDITORS IN CHARGE |
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Director of communications Petter Haugan
Editor-in-chief NTNU:
Information Director Christian Fossen |
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Editor SINTEF:
Åse Dragland
Email:
Ase.Dragland@sintef.no
Tel: +47 73 59 24 76
Fax: +47 73 59 83 50
Reporters: Svein Tønseth and Christina B. Winge
Postal address: Gemini, SINTEF, N-7465 Trondheim, Norway |
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Editors NTNU:
Nina Tveter
Email: nina.tveter@ntnu.no
Tel: +47 73 59 53 21
Fax: +47 73 59 54 37
Reporters: Lisa Olstad and Synnøve Ressem
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Translation and English editing:
Hugh Allen, Stewart Clark and Nancy Bazilchuk. |
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INTERLUDE
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UFO at sunset?
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Photo: Guri Aspenes |
No, this is just a little drop of water from a project being carried out by SINTEF's Bergen office, a project that could be of great financial significance for oil companies. The project addresses hydrates – ice-like crystals that sometimes form in pipelines carrying oil or gas from subsea fields.
Unless we take countermeasures, which are expensive, hydrates may block the pipeline. Now there is hope for a less expensive form of protection.
At the core of the project are experiments that demonstrate how water droplets behave on different surfaces when they are suspended in various types of oil.
Published October, 2009
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