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href="/web/20061007003705/http://www.total.no/en/Research+and+development/index.aspx">Research and development</a></div> <div id="content"><div class="tfeContentBlock"><span class="tfeheader"><h1>Research and development</h1></span><span class="tfeIngress"><p><p>TOTAL E&P NORGE AS initiated Research and Development (R&D) activities in Norway as early as in 1979. Our research centre (SRC) is located in Stavanger, at the company's main offices in Dusavik. It is administered and financed by TOTAL E&P NORGE.</p></p></span><span class="tfeContent"><p>Stavanger Research Centre (SRC) forms part of the international network of Exploration and Production (E&P) R&D within TOTAL, accounting for about 10% of the E&P research budget.  Organisationally SRC is part of the Business, Development and Strategy Department and its mission is to:</p> <ul> <li>Make relevant Norwegian technology available to TOTAL E&P NORGE's activities and to parent company R&D <li>Facilitate the use of parent company R&D in TOTAL E&P NORGE </li></ul> <p>Our R&D programme is conducted within the TOTAL E&P worldwide research strategy, ensuring relevance, coherence and full access to the Group's expertise.</p> <p>With 9 permanent employees, supplemented by contracted personnel, consultants, post-docs, VIE's (young French engineers) and students, our main areas for operated research lie within three domains:</p> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20061007003705/http://www.total.no/en/Research+and+development/Subsurfacetechnology.aspx">Subsurface</a> <li><a href="/web/20061007003705/http://www.total.no/en/Research+and+development/Production.aspx">Production</a> <li><a href="/web/20061007003705/http://www.total.no/en/Research+and+development/Environment.aspx">Environment</a></li></ul> <p>SRC also relies on contracted research in various areas of E&P (seismic, drilling, materials, abandonment and safety).</p> <p>Co-operation with universities and research institutes in Norway, local operators, contractors and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), gives Stavanger Research Centre an important role in the internationalisation of Norwegian technology.  Our activity is coordinated with other Exploration & Production Research Centres: the main Research Centre in Pau (SW France), the Geoscience Research Centre (GRC) based in UK and the Houston Research Centre in Texas.<br><br><br><br></p> <p><br>  <p><br> </p></span></div></div><div id="topics"> <div id="placeholderpicture"><img src="/web/20061007003705im_/http://www.total.no/en/Research%2Band%2Bdevelopment/totalbygg.jpg" border="0"><br/></div><div id="placeholdertext"></div><div class="hr"></div><hr/><div class="channelinfo"><a href="/web/20061007003705/http://www.total.no/en/Research+and+development/index.aspx">Research and development</a><br><a href="/web/20061007003705/http://www.total.no/en/Research+and+development/Subsurfacetechnology.aspx">Subsurface</a> <br><a href="/web/20061007003705/http://www.total.no/en/Research+and+development/Production.aspx">Production</a> <br><a href="/web/20061007003705/http://www.total.no/en/Research+and+development/Environment.aspx">Environment</a> <div class="hr"></div><hr/></span> </div></div> </body></html>