Meeting Venue Information The 2020 CSLF Technical Group Annual Meeting will take place in , , at the Research Council of Norway (Drammensveien 288, , Oslo) on Monday-Tuesday, March 23-24, 2020. The Oslo Airport is located approx. 50 kilometers by taxi from Oslo city center. Two much less expensive Research Council of Norway (in foreground) alternatives to taxis are trains and the SAS Express Bus. The express trains depart the airport every 10 minutes with a transit time to the of about 20 minutes. The regular trains (same travel time as express trains) and buses depart the airport about every 20 minutes. The buses have a transit time of about 25-30 minutes. Express train fare is 196 NOK. Regular train fare is 105 NOK. SAS Express Bus fare is 179 NOK. (For seniors age 67 and older, train fare is half the regular fare.)

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greater Oslo area showing route of airport trains to city center

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Comfort Hotel Grand Central

200 meters central Oslo showing train stations and hotel locations There is no hotel room block in Oslo. Meeting attendees must make their own hotel arrangements. Attendees should use hotels that are convenient to the Oslo Central Station (Oslo Sentralstasjon) or the National Theatre Station (Nationaltheatret stasjon). Recommended hotels (highlighted on the map above) are the Comfort Hotel Grand Central, Thon Hotel Opera, and Scandic Victoria Hotel. To get to the Research Council of Norway from central Oslo, take a westbound train to the . (The L1, L2, L2x, L12, L13, L14, L21, R10, and R11 lines all go there. All westbound trains marked , , , , , , and stop at Lysaker Station.) The Lysaker Station is three stops from Oslo Central Station and two stops from National Theatre Station. In the morning, train frequency is approx. every 5 minutes. Transit times are approx. 10 minutes. Fare is 36 NOK (half price for seniors age 67 and older). After deboarding the train at Lysaker Station, it is approx. a 7 minute walk to the Research Council of Norway. Note that the walking route is also used by cyclists.

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vicinity of the Research Council of Norway showing walking route from

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Workshop at and Site Visits

Those who will be participating in the Workshop and site visits should bring their luggage with them to the Technical Group meeting on Tuesday, March 24. Following the conclusion of the meeting, in the late afternoon, travel to Porsgrunn will be by chartered bus. The bus will be departing from the Research Council from the side of the building facing the railway. For those that are only attending the workshop and/or site visits (and not the Technical Group meeting) there are trains from Oslo Airport to Porsgrunn (approx. 2½ hours travel time). The hotel is a very short walk from the train station. A room block has been reserved at the Comfort Hotel Porsgrunn at the special rate of 2,390 NOK for two nights. The booking code is 1145GR001490. Note that the room block and special rate will expire after February 24. Reservations can be made *only* by email. The Workshop venue is Kulturhuset Ælvespeilet, which is approx. a 7 minute walk from the hotel. The Workshop is an all-day event on Wednesday, March 25, and there will be a dinner at the Workshop venue in the evening. Two site visits will take place on Thursday, March 26. Chartered buses will depart 50 meters the hotel at 8:15am. The morning site visit will be to the nearby Herøya Industripark, with visits to companies which are doing RD&D on CCS or that are examples of synergies within the industrial cluster. walking route to Workshop venue Buses will return to the hotel and train station at noon for drop-off only. Those not wishing to continue to the afternoon site visit can take the train from Porsgrunn to the Oslo Airport. Those participating in the afternoon site visit MUST bring their luggage with them, as the chartered buses will not stop at the hotel for pick-up of luggage. The afternoon site visit will be to the CO2 Field Lab Project in , where monitoring technologies for CO2 storage have been tested. At the conclusion of this site visit (approx. 4:00-4:30pm), the buses will go to the Asker train station (approx. 45 minute drive), where express trains to the Oslo airport depart every 20 minutes. Please note that participants will cover the cost of their own train fares. Tickets can be bought by using the “” mobile phone app (non-express trains only) or at the train station. Transit time to the Oslo airport is less than one hour.

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SUMMARY For the CSLF Technical Group meeting in Oslo: • The Oslo Airport is a considerable distance from Oslo, so use an express train or the SAS Express Bus to travel to Oslo city center. • There is no hotel room block, so make your own hotel arrangements. It is recommended to stay at a hotel near one of the train stations. • The Technical Group meeting is being held at the Research Council of Norway, a short walk from the Lysaker Station. Take a westbound train from Oslo city center to get there. (Lysaker Station is three stops from Oslo Central Station.) • The Technical Group meeting begins at 1:55pm on Monday, March 23 (meeting registration begins at 1:00pm). The meeting adjourns at approx. 5:30pm on March 23 and resumes at 9:00am on Tuesday, March 24. • The Technical Group meeting concludes at approx. 4:20pm on March 24. The March 25 workshop is in Porsgrunn. If you are participating, bring all your luggage to the March 24 Technical Group meeting.

For the Workshop on CO2 Infrastructure and Industrial Clusters: • Travel to Porsgrunn from the Research Council of Norway will be by chartered bus. • For those that are only attending the workshop and/or site visits (and not the Technical Group meeting) there are trains from Oslo Airport to Porsgrunn. • There is a two-night room block at the Comfort Hotel Porsgrunn, for the evenings of March 24-25, but you must make your own arrangements with the hotel using the code for the special room rate. • The workshop is being held at Kulturhuset Ælvespeilet, which is a short walk from the hotel. It begins at 9:00am on Wednesday, March 25 and is an all-day event. There will be a dinner at Kulturhuset Ælvespeilet following the conclusion of the workshop. For the Site Visits: • Buses have been chartered for the site visits and will depart the hotel at approx. 8:15am. • The morning site visit will be to the nearby Herøya Industripark, with visits to companies which are doing RD&D on CCS or that are examples of synergies within the industrial cluster. At the conclusion of the site visit, the buses will return to the hotel and the Porsgrunn train station for drop-off only. • The afternoon site visit will be to the CO2 Field Lab Project in Svelvik. Participants must bring their luggage with them, as the buses will not be returning to Porsgrunn. At the conclusion of the site visit, the buses will go to the Asker train station, arriving between 4:45-5:15pm, where express trains depart for the Oslo Airport about every 20 minutes. Transit time by train to Oslo Airport is less than one hour.

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