Our mission

01/2018
Creation
Originally created within GRTgaz, on 30/01/2025 RICE will become NaTran R&I, NaTran's research center.
125
Women & Men
Doctors, engineers, project managers and research technicians (internal)
4
Emblematic sites
Villeneuve-la-Garenne (92) Bois-Colombes (92) Alfortville (94) and the Jupiter 1000 demonstrator at Fos-sur-Mer (13)
At NaTran R&I, our ambition is to prepare for the energy transition by designing decarbonized, high-performance and safe gas networks and solutions.

In 2023, we have extended our R&D roadmap to include the capture, transport and recovery of CO2, essential to the decarbonization of the economy. These technologies require appropriate infrastructures to transport CO2 from industrial and port sites to recovery or secure storage sites. Drawing on our decades of experience in gas infrastructures, we are able to overcome the technological hurdles associated with safety, metrology and dynamic network control, which are essential to decarbonization but still rare in Europe. Thanks to our testing resources, modeling tools and partnerships, we design innovative solutions to help our customers achieve their climate ambitions and build a sustainable future.

3 strategic challenges

Industrial safety

  • Infrastructures subject to rigorous and regularly reinforced regulations...
  • We develop tools and services to help our customers meet all these requirements.
  • Our top priority: ensuring the safety of people, property and the environment.

Energy transition

  • A gas mix renewed by the development of green gases produced in the regions (biomethane, hydrogen...) as well as the growth of CCUS solutions...
  • We anticipate and facilitate these changes...
  • We are accelerating the energy transition by developing innovative solutions to transform existing infrastructures.

Operational excellence

  • Ever smarter networks and data collection as a competitive factor...
  • We master the latest modeling and dynamic simulation tools, know the latest materials and invent new materials...
  • We help gas infrastructure operators make the most of both incremental and disruptive technological developments.

Consult our 2023 activity report

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