Download Center

For downloads click here. Video, photos and presentations are available from our ftp-server. All video is TV broadcast quality.

Username: mediaserver
Password: ud_media

Video and photos from the VIP excursion to the CCS fascility at the Sleipner oil platform in the North Sea
Statements from individual ministers
Expert presentations
Interviews with ministers (video)
Edited highlights from the Opening Session 27 May (video clips)
Photos from the conference

Practical information for the press

Press conference:
Following the VIPs visit to the Sleipner platform in the North Sea, a press conference will take place in the lobby of the Grieg Hall aprox. 2:15PM. The press conference will be lead by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.

Accreditation:
Only accredited members of the press will have access to the conference venues. Certificates of accreditation will be issued from a designated desk in the Grieg Hall on 27 May. A valid ID card, Press Card or passport must be shown.

Please ensure that you wear your media accreditation card in a clearly visible position when you are in the Grieg Hall.

Cameras:
There will be space available for cameras and photographers, and audio output at the back of the main hall, Peer Gynt Hallen, (where the high level part of the conference will be held).

Streaming, sound:
Streaming will be available on the internet.

Press will be able to tap the live audio in Grieg Hall all times.

Free picture packages from the excursion to the Sleipner platform (DV PAL format) will be available from a FTP server. A link to the ftp will be available from www.ccsnorway.no

Satelite-van:
For live position, 1 DSNG fully redundant, including 1 camera playout machine J30 Multiformat will be placed outside the Grieg Hall. Media will cover the cost for usage of the satelite-van themselves.

We are able to reach the following satellites:

-eutelsat W1/W2/W2A/W3A
-Sirius 4
-Eurobird 4
-Intelsat 10-02
-Atlantic bird 1/3

The conference will provide satellite truck (up-link) with play out and live stand up possibilities.

Play out: XD-cam and DV-cam
Live Stand up: photographer with XD-camcorder and wired microphone (SDI with embedded sound through coax-cable to up-link position)

How to book:
1: Contact Mr. Dag Eine (email: dag.eine@gyro.no or mobile: +47 907 97 753) and book “play out” and/or “live stand up”.
2: When you receive booking information for the up-link from Mr. Dag Eine. Contact Telenor (email: bookings@telenor.com or phone: +47 22 77 58 00) to book satellite time.
(You can book satellite time through other agents also)
Registration number for satellite truck(up-link) is: Eutelsat NOR035.
3: Satellite specifications must be with the up-link operator minimum 30 minutes before transmission.

Dedicated photo spots:
Dedicated spots for photos and interviews, with backdrops, has been set up in the Grieg Hall.

Press centre:
The press centre will be in the Troldtog room in the Grieg Hall. It will offer around 15 desks for the media, with access to a wireless network and a limited number of landline ISDN telephones. Fax and photocopying facilities will also be available. Computers and telephones will not be provided as it is expected that media will bring their own lap-tops and mobile phones.

Voltage is 220V, power plugs in Norway have two round pins. Media need to provide their own adapters if they use different voltage and plugs.

Conference staff will be present in the press center at all times and will provide assistance in copying, etc.

Opening hours of the press center:
Wednesday 27 May: 08:00 – 19:00

Entrance/security:
All media are reminded that anyone entering the Grieg Hall on 27 May is subject to full inspection by security personell.

Any item brought to the Grieg Hall, whether computer, camera equipment or hand-carried bag, is subject to full inspection.

Media Coordinator and press contact for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
Mr. Bjørn Svenungsen
Communications advisor
Mobile: +47 48 04 51 22
Email: bsv@mfa.no