Evaluation of the DEMO 2000 program
NIFU STEP has evaluated DEMO 2000, a technology development program organized in a large number of collaborative projects with participants from supplier industry, international and Norwegian oil companies and ? to a lesser extent ? Norwegian research institutions.
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Responding to initiatives from the Norwegian supplier industry, DEMO 2000 was initiated in 1999 by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. In sum, the evaluation suggests that DEMO 2000 may be considered successful because - in spite of its relatively short lifetime - it has achieved its main objectives.
The evaluation found that DEMO 2000 obtained high additionality. The majority of the deliverables from the projects would not have materialized without the support and funding from the DEMO 2000 program, or at best been available at a later stage and at a smaller scale.
As yet, the value obtained from DEMO 2000 projects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf is estimated to be in the order of 3 to 4.5 BNOK.
The complete findings of the evaluation are presented and analyzed in
Tor Borgar Hansen, Tore Karlsson and Helge Godø: Evaluation of the DEMO 2000 program. NIFU STEP rapport 7/2005