Past Research Activities

Euromargins

- Slope stability on Europe's PAssive COntinental Margins (SPACOMA)

This project was organized under the European Science Foundation (ESF) and aims at an improved understanding of continental margin slope stability in different geological settings along the European margin, from the river-fed depositional systems along the south-European margins of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, to the high Arctic north of Svalbard. Research on the correlation between geological and geotechnical parameters and the effect of gas hydrates on geotechnical properties were parts of ICG activities. This also included tsunami modeling.

Ormen Lange

Significant effort was put into finalizing the results from the four years of studies under the Ormen Lange project. The results are published in a special issue of Marine and Petroleum Geology (Solheim et al., 2005), and the parts directly related to this project cover mainly different geological aspects related to the Storegga Slide and the pore pressure issue.

NGI's internal project SIP-8 (Offshore Geohazards)

This project was run in parallel with the ICG project but with close cooperation to ensure mutual benefit for the various activities. SIP-8 emphasized geotechnics and the development of methods and tools, such as an improved deepwater coring system. Another ICG-related activity was to investigate the potential of seismic attributes to predict sedimentological and geotechnical properties, using Ormen Lange as a case study.

ASSEM

- Array of Sensors for long-term Seabed Monitoring of geohazards

This EU-funded project aimed at developing instruments for measurement and long-term monitoring of physicochemical and geotechnical properties, such as pore pressures, gas content, etc., in the seafloor and the upper geological layers. Pore pressure measurements conducted at Finneidfjord were part of this initiative.