Bjorn Kvamme has obtained his MSc in Chemical Engineering (1981) and PhD in Chemical Engineering (1984) from the Norwegian University of Technology and Natural Sciences. He is appointed as a Professor in Gas Processing at the Department of Physics, University of Bergen in March 2000. He is the author/co-author of 422 publications during last 25 years, of which 148 are in good international scientific journals. He has 2270 citations as per May 1, 2017 and has presented numerous papers at international conferences.

Storing CO2 in aquifers is already a practice offshore Norway and a very promising concept for reducing emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere. Possible future storage reservoir may contain thermodynamic regions of temperature and pressure that

facilitate formation of CO2 hydrate locally. This might be a positive effect since it might reduce vertical migration but the question is whether it also has negative impact on horizontal spreading of CO2 in the reservoir. Another option for underground storage of CO2 is to inject it into CH4 hydrate deposits. CH4 hydrate filled sediments are located worldwide in huge amounts. These hydrates are crystalline structures in which CH4 is entrapped into cavities formed by hydrogen bonded water molecules. CO2 also makes a hydrate with water and the same macroscopic structure as CH4 but with increased thermodynamic stability as compared to CH4 hydrate. Injection of CO2 into  hydrate filled sediments will therefor lead to a conversion from the initial CH4 hydrate over to CO2 dominated hydrate with simultaneous release of CH4 gas from the in situ CH4 hydrate. In order to model the two types of systems in realistic reservoir flow situations there is a need for a simulator that can handle non-equilibrium thermodynamics and competing phase transitions which involves hydrate formation and dissociations.  (RCB) is the only reservoir simulator for hydrate which handles that so far. The basic feature of the simulator is discussed and relevant examples are presented. In particular we  that a reservoir with hydrate formation zones will narrow the CO2 flux both verticsall and horizontally and as such have both positive and negative effects on CO2 storage