International projects

On assignment for Norwind, NGI participated in the installation of offshore windmills in the German sector in the North Sea. NGI also verified the installation of the foundation piles of the wind turbines.

Representatives from the Russian Sevmash Shipyard and NGI signed a new contract for supply of technology to a platform to be placed at the oil field Prirazlomnoye during 2010.

A powerful earthquake in the eastern Pacific on 29 September 2009 generated a tsunami on the Pacific islands Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga. Shortly after the event, NGI and its Centre of Excellence, ICG, did numerical simulations of the generation and propagation of the tsunami.

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) launched its "Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction" at several locations around the world in 2009. In Norway the presentation took place in the Laurits Bjerrum Auditorium at NGI.

In 2009 NGI was engaged in research and development and the design and construction of new dams, as well as in the safety evaluation, risk assessment and strengthening of dams, on four continents.

NGI/ICG is coordinator for the comprehensive EU-project SafeLand, focusing on the ability to map risk zones, predict land and rock slides and debris flow and finally to reduce associated risk.

NGI and its Centre of Excellence ICG work together with Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) to map the risk associated with landslides, earthquakes, flooding, drought and epidemics in Nepal. The Prime Minister of Nepal, premier Madhav Kumar Nepal, expressed great interest in the on-going work when he met with the project group in September 2009.