Shell expands considerably from laboratory Amsterdam – Telegraaf.nl

Shell is expanding its Amsterdam laboratory sharply with a wing for research for efficient extraction of crude oil. The energy company is focused worldwide research

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That should help include the deemed exhausted oil and gas fields as Schoonebeek to use yet.

Significant expansion

The new building, which is always room was reserved, the sixth wing of the complex in the north of Amsterdam on the IJ. According to researchers from Rijswijk Shell come to Amsterdam, and be put to trial in two years new researchers.

Shell in Amsterdam now operate 1,300 people, thereof 1,000 researchers. With a research budget of 910,000 euros per day it is the largest commercial research in the Netherlands, Shell says.

Storage broekasgas underground

The new wing will investigate oil production, and more specifically at how by extraction of oil can be efficiently extracted from rock. This research is useful for existing and new oil fields, according to the group.

Shell takes years to study how greenhouse gases can store underground. Amounts Shell is not known, but it is according to the group to’significante amounts

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