The DOE’s Carbon Sequestration Program also supports global initiatives, such as the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF), an international climate change initiative that focuses on the development of technologies to cost-effectively capture and sequester CO2, and the International Energy Agency (IEA). The Carbon Sequestration Program is also providing technical and financial support to international projects through the Core R&D MVA Program. Projects include the Weyburn Project (see Section ) in Canada, the Sleipner Project in Norway, the In Salah Project in Algeria, the CO2SINK Project in Germany, and the Otway Basin Pilot Project in Australia. Sleipner West (Sleipner) – The Sleipner West natural gas field in the North Sea (Norway) produces associated CO2. To avoid paying.