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The Oil & Gas Industry
In this issue, you will find a foreword from the Norwegian
Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Terje Søviknes. Important
industry organisations are presented with information about
their work and expertise.
Over five articles, topics currently central to the Norwegian
oil & gas industry are discussed in depth. This issue’s topics
include new solutions that improve cost-efficiency, new
development within drones and robot technology, expansion
for the industry into offshore wind and HSE initiatives on the NCS.
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Norwegian companies that offer their products and services
on the global market.
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For more than 50 years, Norway has been
a global leader in offshore oil and gas
production. A key enabler for this success
was the emergence of a sophisticated
supply and service industry, capable of
taking on complex projects and delivering
tailored solutions, while constantly
improving their products and processes.
The story of Norwegian petroleum activity
is the story of continuous technological
development; ranging from small
steps, making every day processes
more effective, to great technological
leaps, pushing the boundaries of what
the industry can do. Technological
developments have also been key in
reducing the environmental impact of the
petroleum activities.
Today, the oil and gas industry represents
a spearhead of Norwegian technology,
know-how and expertise. I believe a
long-term commitment to research,
development, and bringing new
technologies to market will be vital when
we embark on the next chapter of our
petroleum history.
The past years have been challenging for
the petroleum industry worldwide, and
Norway has been no exception. The good
news is that the situation is now improving.
The Norwegian petroleum industry has
worked diligently to adapt and realize efficiencies to increase productivity. As
a result, Norwegian contractors have
retained their competitive edge.
As part of a global industry, Norwegian
contractors have deliveries to almost a
hundred countries. In 2015, international
sales amounted to 190 billion NOK – 40
percent of the total. These are impressive
numbers, especially in light of the
challenging market conditions, which
further underlines their competitiveness
and dedication to high quality.
However, this is not a time to relax. While
costs have come down, the long-term
challenge for oil and gas producers will be
to keep costs down. Going forward, the
willingness of producers to innovate and
adopt new technology will be decisive.
Great potential is still to be unlocked
in areas such as better subsurface
understanding, drilling efficiency, enhanced
oil recovery, improved subsea systems
and unmanned operations. Further,
digitalisation and automation can help
make processes less expensive, safer and
more efficient. Norwegian suppliers are at
the forefront in research and development
encompassing these challenges.
The industry is also taking on new
opportunities in the renewables sector.
Offshore wind is a case in point, where
technology and experience derived from
offshore petroleum operations are being harnessed to employ new solutions.
The fixed Dudgeon and fl oating Hywind
projects off the coast of Scotland are bright
examples, and I believe this is just the
beginning.
The close interaction between oil
companies, industry and research
institutions has been the key to solving
technological challenges on the Norwegian
Continental Shelf. In turn, this has formed
the basis of international competitiveness
and success. I am truly proud of their
results, and I trust you will find this issue
of Norway Exports useful in learning more
about the Norwegian petroleum industry.
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy’s main responsibility is to achieve a coordinated and integrated energy policy
The Ministry of Petroleum is responsible for policy in the following areas:
A primary objective of the Ministry is
to ensure high value creation through
efficient and environmentally friendly
management of Norway’s energy
resources. Without a high level of
competitiveness, the efficient use
of resources, and profitability in the
energy sector, it will not be possible to
create the jobs and revenues needed to
maintain prosperity and employment.
Energy policy must be formulated to
ensure the best possible use, within
environmentally acceptable limits,
of the country’s overall supplies of
labour, knowledge, capital and natural
resources.
As the secretariat for the political leadership, the Ministry’s objectives will be developed through the Government’s energy policy goals — as expressed, for instance, in relevant White Papers and Propositions (Bills) to the Norwegian Parliament (Storting). The level of expertise within the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, combined with the strategic and practical alliances within the Norwegian Government, research organizations and the industry sector, provide the basis to continue to meet short and long-term goals and requirements related to national energy issues as well as cooperative efforts on the international level.
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy is responsible for the following associated offices and entities related to oil and gas activities:
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) is administratively subordinate to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The NPD plays a key role in petroleum resource management, and is an advisory body for the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The NPD exercises authority in connection with exploration for and production of petroleum deposits on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, including statuary powers and to make decisions based on the rules regulations governing the petroleum activities.
Petoro AS is a state-owned corporation which is responsible for the management of the State’s Direct Financial Interest (SDFI) on behalf of the state.
Gassco AS is a state-owned company responsible for the transport of natural gas from the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The company is the operator of Gassled, although it has no ownership interest in the company. Gassco AS handles this operatorship in a manner that is neutral for all owners and users.
Gassnova SF is the Norwegian state enterprise for Carbon Capture and Storage. Gassnova manages the Norwegian State’s interests in Carbon Capture and Storage. Managed interests include development of technologies, realization of CCS projects and advising the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.
Statoil ASA is an international energy company with representation in about 30 countries. The company is listed on the Oslo and New York stock exchanges. The state owns 67% of the company’s shares.
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A newly launched project by Norwegian Energy Partners aims at getting an overview of how the supplier industry has contributed to cost efficiency on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
The industry is now in a radical change mode. The significant price fall of oil, which started second half of 2014 and first part of 2015, has led to insecurity and is characterized by big challenges. The oil and gas industry needs to think differently and the business needs to improve in many areas at the same time.
Radical and continuous improvement is a prerequisite for the industry to succeed in the years to come. The low oil price is both a challenge and an opportunity for the industry.
The downturn is also a good reason to focus
on cost efficiency. It often means new use
of technology and improvement of different
processes. The Norwegian oil and gas
industry possesses world leading technology,
has a high reservoir utilization, top HSEstandard
and environmentally friendly
production. The industry is well positioned to
take part in recovery of remaining resources
in Norway and internationally – also with a
future of lower oil price.
The operators have challenged the
supplier industry to contribute to cost
efficiency and make the supplier industry
more competitive and sustainable. The
supplier industry has responded to the
challenge with great commitment and has
made available cost effective products/
services /solutions the operators can take
advantage of.
The Norwegian Energy Partners (NORWEP) considers it important to get an overview of what the supplier industry and NORWEP partners have contributed to cost efficiency.
The purpose of doing this is to show what has been achieved so that customers and decision makers with ease can find what is relevant for them. The customers should be able to see the advantage of using Norwegian suppliers and find relevant information about competence and qualified areas for each supplier.
One of the most important elements of information that should be covered through the project is to point at the areas where partners have achieved cost efficiency which can be relevant for the customers e.g., but not limited to, working methodology, technical specifications, use of new technology, standardization, digitalization, organization, contract structure and ways of cooperation.
The information will be accessible to the industry. As NORWEP has collected the information it will be important to communicate it to relevant parties. NORWEP can arrange meetings and workshops with the oil companies, rig owners and, engineering companies, yards and other customers with the topic “Cost effective solutions” where their partners can present their products/ services/solutions. NORWEP believe it is time to tell this exciting story and use cost effective solutions as a marketing tool on the international market.
NORWEPs plan is to collect and structure the information from partners and present it during 1st quarter 2018.
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The NHO - Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise - is the main business and employers organization in Norway with a current membership of 25,000 companies ranging from small family-owned businesses to multinational enterprises. A half million people work in those companies. As a member in NHO you will have access to a unique network and infl uence decision making. NHO offers amongst other special deals for members in legal aid, counselling, pension scheme, statistics and analysis.
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The last few years have been tough in the
oil and gas industry. Not only in Norway,
but throughout the world. Oil prices have
plummeted from more than a hundred
dollars a barrel to less than forty. Now
prices are in the sixties. Figures from
SSB (Statistics Norway) show that more
than 40 000 jobs have been lost. On a
global scale, numbers are even more
alarming. Because of this, Norwegian
companies have been through a
substantial restructuring process. The
consequences are many. It has become
harder to acquire contracts. Expertise
has left for other industries.
But this brutal, and as some would say,
necessary transition has not only been
negative. On the contrary, it has given the
Norwegian supply industry a chance to
shine.
The costs have been – and will continue
– to be cut dramatically. The same
tasks will be performed, but to a lesser
cost than previously. The industry has,
for years, worked on innovation and
technology, but with the last years’
downturn, the focus on development of
technology has increased. This works
hand in glove with the Norwegian national
OG21 strategy document from 2016.
The document points to innovation and
technology as important priorities for
the oil and gas industry for the years to
come.
- Norwegian supply industry has
traditionally been very capable at
developing technology to solve
challenges on the Continental Shelf.
The main challenge for the future is to
continue cutting costs so that we stay
competitive, says Gunnar Hjelmtveit Lille,
Managing Director of OG21.
He adds that the future for the
Norwegian Continental Shelf looks
bright. It is estimated that Norway still
has more than 50 percent left of the
recoverable reserves. In other words:
The Norwegian oil & gas industry still has
a lifespan of several decades. However,
new technology is necessary to find
the reserves and extract them costeffi
ciently.
Lille mentions a few areas with
considerable future potential in the years
to come:
- The big trend is digitalization.
There are tremendous opportunities
in autonomy, automation, remote
controlling and monitoring, just to
mention a few areas. The discovery
portfolio at the Norwegian Continental
Shelf is dominated by small and medium
sized discoveries. To develop and
produce these resources, we need to
utilize existing infrastructure efficiently
and find simple and innovative solutions
to tie-back new fields to the existing
infrastructure, the MD explains.
The common denominator for the
new technology is that it must be cost
effective. This is either by doing the job
simpler and faster, or by extracting more
oil without any halts in the production.
The overall potential is substantial.
What is easily forgotten is the fact that
abandonment of oil wells and fields is
costly. Plugging oil wells entails immense
costs for the operators as well as for the
Norwegian society at large. Both in Norway
and globally, there are great business
opportunities in developing cost-saving
plugging and abandonment technology.
The Norwegian company HydraWell
has realized this and has developed a
technology that plugs wells both cheaper
and more efficiently than previously.
Simply put, HydraWell has developed a
solution where it is sufficient to enter the oil well only once to perform all the steps
of plugging. The process is to perforate
the casing, fl ush the holes and the back
side clean and fill it all with cement. The
entire job is usually completed in less
than 48 hours. In comparison, when
using the traditional method one has to
enter and exit several times to remove
debris before cementing. This process
can take several weeks.
- The alternative is to remove the casing
through drilling. This is time-consuming
and generates several tons of steel
shavings to be dealt with afterwards.
Without the steel shavings, we can
complete a plugging job in two or three
days rather than weeks, says Arne G.
Larsen, HydraWell´s CEO of business
development.
HydraWell can point to great results.
- The numbers prove that we have
saved 1500 rig-days, which equals more
than four rig-years. That makes for a
sound economy, especially considering
that the cost of one rig is 300 000 dollars
a day. We are talking about savings in
the order of 3.5 billion Norwegian kroner,
Larsen says.
The high cost of leasing rigs has
made HydraWell develop a technology
to plug oil wells without using a rig. The
company is still at the start-up stage, but
the ambition is to secure contracts with
various operators in early 2018.
As already mentioned, there has been a considerable development in innovative technology over the past few years. Critics still feel that the focus started too late, that Norwegian operators have taken high oil prices for granted. OG21´s Lille only partly agrees.
- It is important to emphasize that we have always been proficient at technology development, but we could have been better at implementing the technology earlier. My opinion is that it often takes too long from development to utilization, the MD says.
Statoil has, on several occasions, been a great supporter of several small technology companies. The oil giant has therefore established Statoil Technology Invest to get the products to the market.
- Norwegian technology has brought about the adventure on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. We depend on further innovation and new technology to continue to deliver, says Eskil Eriksen, Statoil´s media spokesperson.
Eriksen uses the Johan Castberg field as an example. The project´s original cost was estimated at 100 billion Norwegian kroner, but was reduced to 50 billion. Innovation and technology played an essential role in the cost reduction.
- The potential is enormous, especially within digitalization. That is why we will be investing between one and two billion Norwegian kroner in digital technology over the years to come. Statoil has been – and will continue to be – an important part of the Norwegian supply industry by contributing to development of technology.
These types of solutions are exactly what
the oil and gas industry in Norway, and
internationally, are requesting these days:
Operations that save time and money. In
addition, these initiatives reduce travel and
risk for the workers involved, and are also
environmentally beneficial, as it reduces CO2
footprints.
The oil service company Oceaneering, has
on commission from Statoil, developed the
world’s first E-ROV concept. (ROV = remotely
operated vehicle, the letter “E” stands for
empowered.) This means that the E-ROV
performs tasks powered with electricity
from integrated batteries, thus the system
is completely independent of a platform,
vessel or other forms of infrastructure while
performing subsea operations.
After thorough testing in Oceaneering’s
test pool in Stavanger, the E-ROV went
offshore to the Troll-Field, where it performed
valves and inspection tasks on the seabed.
The ROV-pilots are most commonly found
in a control room on board a vessel or rig.
This time they were “home” in the support
center. In June 2016, for the first time in
history, an empowered (battery driven)
ROV was operating in the North Sea via 4G
network, remotely piloted from Oceaneering
in Stavanger.
A prerequisite for the ability to conduct
remote-controlled operations, without
fiber cable or signals via satellite, is a
well-developed 4G network. Telenor, in
cooperation with Statoil, has established 17
base stations for 4G network coverage on
the Norwegian continental shelf. Fiber cables
run from the base stations to shore. Thus,
all the oil and gas fields in the North Sea and
Norwegian Sea are covered.
When the remote-controlled and batterydriven
E-ROV was operating at the Trollfi
eld, the control signals from the support
center were wirelessly transferred via 4G
network to a buoy on the ocean surface
that transmit data and communication
signals, to and from the E-ROV, via a subsea
communication cable.
The signal buoy is produced in Norway, more
precisely at FugroOceanor in Trondheim,
and is of the same type as the buoys used at
measuring stations for meteorology.
Remote-controlled maintenance of subsea
installations and equipment is estimated to
be the future method of operations in the
oil and gas industry. Hence, developments
within ROV technologies towards resident
ROV systems (RROV) are a hot topic in the
industry. In other words, RROVs will in the
future be permanently stationed on the
seabed and perform tasks when needed.
In the future, resources will be found further
from shore, at deeper sea levels and in colder
areas. “The E-ROV and RROV technologies
are important milestones for the keys to
success for future subsea operations in
these areas”, comments Merethe Berge
Paasche, Business Development Manager at
Oceaneering in Norway.
She predicts that the need for staff
deployed offshore will be reduced and
that more of today’s offshore jobs will be
conducted onshore. “It is easier, cheaper,
safer and improves the efficiency of the
operations,” she says.
Ambitions are high in the Norwegian
subsea industry. Development of new and
better solutions within communications, data
utilization and analysis, artificial intelligence
and automation is ongoing. Soon, it probably
will be normal to use remote-controlled
resident ROVs, permanently stationed on the
seabed for inspection and maintenance.
Among the most significant future challenges
will be the development of more effective
batteries that will provide the ROV with more
capacity and power for a longer operation range. In addition, development of subsea
charging stations, tolerating permanent
placement on the seabed, are essential in
regards of a resident ROV system. Several
suppliers of ROV services in Norway are now
working intensively to develop and test their
resident ROV systems for future operations.
Not far from Forus and Stavanger is Bryne, where the company IKM Subsea has built its own center for remote controlling of ROVs. On assignment from Statoil, IKM Subsea has constructed three ROVs that are placed at Visund and Snorre B in the North Sea. These three ROVs will be the first permanently stationed on platforms and will be controlled either from the new control center at Bryne or from the two platforms at sea. In addition, IKM Subsea has developed and produced the world’s first resident ROV, the so-called RROV. This is a versatile work and inspection ROV that will be permanently stationed on the seabed at Visund and Snorre, but will be controlled from the IKM Subsea’s new control center at Bryne. “We are very proud that Statoil gave us the opportunity to be the first to make this happen,” says chief of operations at IKM Subsea, Jan Vegard Hestnes. He adds that the RROV will be marketed all over the world.
There are several smaller manufacturers of
ROVs in Norway. One of them is Kystdesign
in Haugesund that recently delivered a high
speed ROV to Reach Subsea. This is a
specialized ROV for surveying, mapping and
inspecting the ocean fl oor as well as pipelines
and other subsea installations. This ROV
moves four to five times faster than other
inspection ROVs. Thus, it can collect much
more data in a shorter amount of time. Reach
Subsea has contracted for another high
speed ROV from Kystdesign.
Another Norwegian ROV manufacturer
is Sperre at Notodden and Argus Remote
Systems in Bergen, in addition to IKM Subsea
that until now has only produced ROVs for
their own use.
The development of autonomous
methodology runs parallel with electrification
of subsea equipment. Today, the most
common solution is hydraulic transference of
power to manipulator arms in working ROVs
and to thrusters, but electrical solutions are
also available.
In addition, Norwegian industry is developing
electrification of production equipment
that is permanently installed under water.
All production trees are assembled on the
seabed with hydraulic valves for shutdown
and with electrohydraulic control systems.
Aker Solutions is leading in this area through
delivery and experience from Åsgard Subsea
Compression which were the world’s first
underwater compressors.
Einar Winther-Larssen, product manager
for all-electric and new production at Aker
Solutions, says that the goal is to electrify
subsea production equipment so that
the use of hydraulic power is no longer
necessary. The advantage of all-electric,
according to Winther-Larssen, is that you
can remove all the equipment related to
hydraulics, such as pipes in an umbilical,
piping on structures and productions
systems as well as equipment above water,
pumps, filtering systems and other. The
systems will be cheaper and easier to
operate and maintain. At the same time, the
production systems will be more fl exible and
can more easily be developed in stages.
In 1995, Leif Johan Holand produced aerial
filming from helicopters for the Norwegian
TV, feature film and advertising industry.
He started to see that drones were
increasingly taking a share of the market,
when one of his partners in Griff Aviation
asked him: why don’t we make one? So
they did.
Today his company is fl ying and testing
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that can fl y
loads of more than 200 kg for both military
and civilian purposes, everything from fl ying
for British troops in GPS blocked areas to
more effective spraying of fungicides on
banana plants in the plantations of South
America round the clock.
“They saw how the banana fl owers closed
during hot periods of time,” said Holand.
“Drones don’t know if it’s day or night.
They said this will revolutionise the banana
industry.”
Drones are used in many industries today.
Agriculture is one of the biggest markets,
according to Holand. His company also
services the government and energy
markets, such as wind turbines, oil and
gas installations, and power lines. The
Norwegian company recently scored a
contract to automatically de-ice the blades
on 1,000 windmills in Canada using a
tethered drone that cuts downtime.
However, Griff Aviation is garnering international attention because of its
drones’ unparalleled payload capacity.
In Japan, it will test the transport of
100-kilogram fish crates from small fishing
boats over several kilometres to the local
islands. Griff is also collaborating with
Spain and Dubai on testing drones that can
carry over 300 kilograms. One customer in
the private security industry has even asked
if it can arrange an emergency evacuation
out of his home via drone.
“We always have these crazy ideas” said
Holand.
Griff Aviation recently expanded into the
maritime sector with a strategic research
co-operation with the Northern Research
Institute (NORUT) in Tromsø. Started this
spring, Griff aims to test equipment on
UAVs for high-tech landings on platforms.
The company plans to build a new aerial
production factory at Bardufoss, the site of
Norway’s military airport, next year.
So far, maritime applications for drones
have been mostly restricted to hull
inspection and on-site draft surveys. This
has more to do with the regulations than
the technological limitations, according
to Marius Johansen, Wilhelmsen Ships
Agency vice president business solutions
and marketing. It is more difficult to get the
necessary permits to fl y drones to boats,
which operate in different locations, and
especially in high-trafficked port areas near
crowded cities.
Still, the Norwegian shipping company
believes there is a growing potential with
last minute deliveries of small parcels
to vessels via drones. The company
successfully tested delivery of a onekilogram
package during Nor Shipping in
Oslo this May together with a Norwegian
drone operator and under the authorization
of the Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority.
The simulation demonstrated the delivery of a part for a broken pipe. The whole
process took only one minute from
mounting the package to drop off for the
500-metre fl ight.
Johansen foresees that the industry could
save up to $575 billion from last mile
deliveries of cash, medicines, documents,
and spare parts to vessels using drones
rather than launch boats. Nearly onethird
of Wilhelmsen’s parcel deliveries
involve packages weighing less than five
kilograms. Drones would not only save
costs from not having to hire launch
boats, but also avoid the safety concerns
when personnel climb up from the launch
boat to the vessel just to hand over the
package.
“It’s basically inefficient in the current
market chain and the safety related risks
are assumed higher using launch boats
than using drones,” said Johansen.
Another trend in the maritime sector has
been the move from land-based surveys of
ships at yards to waters farther offshore.
This August, Norwegian company DNV GL
used camera-equipped drones to survey
semisubmersible vessel Safe Scandinavia
in the North Sea for Statoil’s drilling
operations on the Oseberg East field.
The assignment marked the first offshore
drone survey by a classification company.
The drones braved wind speeds of
approximately 15 knots under the main
deck to check the condition of the fairleads
and their connections to the columns that
hold up the vessel, saving both time and
money.
“Normally this kind of operation would
cause disruption to our client for several
days,” said Ian Young, Prosafe chief
operating officer. “The drone survey took
only a few hours and was just as effective.”
DNV GL foresees drones will save
operators significant costs related to the
erection of staging and rafting (the process
of filling a cargo tank with water to give the
surveyor access by rubber boat). During its
first production survey on chemical tanker
MV Apollo in 2016, German shipowner
Carl Büttner Ship Management saved 2-3
days – representing 14,000-28,000 – on
inspecting 14 tanks.
“Imagine a tank of 30,000 cubic metres,”
said Cezary Galinski, DNV GL project
manager for maritime classification fl ying
squad, based in Poland. “To fill it up and
maintain various inspection levels leads
to significant costs for pumping and
discharge of water.”
Another plus from using drones is that
there is no damage to the tank coating
from staging, are more flexible to use,
and improve safety for surveyors. DNV
GL is looking at building its own drones,
preferably as small as possible. In the next
few years, drones might be so small that
they could fit into a surveyor’s pocket,
controlled via a cell phone, and taken out
whenever areas are difficult to inspect.
“This is not very futuristic,” said Galinski.
“We see more and more instances where
it would be beneficial for the surveyor.
We have to stop thinking of drones as
something complicated. It’s just another
tool like a hammer or a fl ashlight.”
But it is urgent to get started. – The train hasn’t left the station yet, but at least the first cars have already gone. This is what Irene Rummelhogg, the Executive Vice President and responsible for developing new energy solutions in Statoil, recently said to to the Norwegian tech magazine, Teknisk Ukeblad (TU). Developing offshore wind power on the Norwegian conitenental shelf has been a-long-time coming. Nonetheless, two of the largest Norwegian energy companies, Statoil and Statkraft; both having the Norwegian government as the largest shareholder, have committed themselves to constructing two large offshore wind farms in Great Britain. The two companies have headed up the construction at The Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm with 88 wind turbines creating a total effect of 317 Megawatts, providing enough power to cover the needs of 220 000 households. The Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm is even larger (402 MW). Both are located off the coast of Norfolk. Statoil, having invested 20 billion NOK in offshore wind farms in Great Britain, will also operate the farms when it is put into production.
The most groundbreaking project within
new wind power, that Statoil is involved in,
is Hywind. This is the world’s first floating
offshore wind turbine. First, a prototype was
placed in the North Sea, west of Karmøy,
Norway. Now there are five similar floating wind
turbines located at an offshore wind farm near
Peterhead in Scotland. More than two billion
NOK have been invested in this first fl oating
offshore wind farm.
Norwegian suppliers provided 30 % of the deliveries to the Hywind project. One of
Norway’s largest offshore suppliers, Aibel,
played a key role in the planning stage. The
company was involved in the nitty gritty when
it came to purchasing processes and how the
structure was to be assembled. Norsea Group
at Stord functioned as the host and provided
use of their docks and big cranes, including
assembly, whereas Siemens headed up the
work at Stord erecting the huge monster
turbines once all the parts were put together.
Subsea Seven in Stavanger installed the
offshore cables correlating to the areas where
the turbines would be moored in Scotland, while
Nexans in Halden and in Rognan produced
export cables and underground cables. Technip
Norge was in charge of the marine operations
at sea and near Stord, while, MacGregor from
Arendal delivered the mooring system.
Statoil’s project director, Leif Dep, stated
at a press conference at Stord last summer
that in order to lower the cost for this kind of
project, the building and installation must be
industrialized and rationalized.” The Norwegian
supplier industry should be a driving force
here”, said Dep.
According to Executive Vice President, Irene
Rummelhoff, it is a huge advantage for Statoil
that the company has many employees with
skills pertaining to extraction of offshore oil and gas. Rummelhoff stated, according to
Teknisk Ukeblad, that Statoil has completed
constructions in wind power both quicker
and far under budget, without the need to
hire even one new wind power engineer in
the process. There are now between 150 and
200 Statoil employees working fulltime with
renewable energy projects.
Even though development of offshore
wind power from Statoil has primarily taken
place abroad, Rummelhoff points out that
possible pilot projects with fl oating offshore
wind farms could provide electricity to oil and
gas installations on the Norwegian continental
shelf. If this were to be successful, it could
encourage more Norwegian industries to
contribute to fl oating offshore wind projects.
The majority of offshore ship owners have
looked to offshore wind power to find new
areas of use for inactive ships after the plunge
in oil prices. Eidesvik Offshore in Bømlo has
retained contracts for three of their subsea
vessels in the renewable energy market. The
most recent contract was signed in September
with the German company Adwen for a period
of five months and an option to renew. Eidesvik
Offshore will provide ships with many cabins
intended for service personnel that work daytime
at the wind turbines far out at sea. The subsea
vessels are equipped with telescopic and motion
resistant gangways that ensure the safe move of
staff between the wind turbines and the ship.
Østensjø Shipping is an offshore company
that is becoming involved in offshore wind
power by way of building two specially
designed service ships. Østensjø has signed
a long-term rental contract with offshore wind
power specialist Dong Energy for the two new
constructions that will be serving the new wind
farm Hornsea off the coast of England.
Siem Offshore and Deep Ocean, shipping
companies and innovators in underwater
centers, have contributed immensely in the
wind power field by mapping out and preparing
the sea bed prior to installing the cables and
additionally the installation of the actual cables.
Fred Olsen Wind Carrier was early on board
offering a specially designed ship for installing
offshore wind turbines and special vessels for
transporting service personnel to and from
the offshore wind turbines. The Fred Olsen
company is known to have installed more than
220 wind turbines at sea.
“One third of the entire fleet of subsea
service vessels, built for the oil and gas
industry in the North Sea, are now working
on offshore wind projects”, informs Henrik
Tobiassen in the brokerage firm Uno Offshore.
This is an increase of 15 % as compared to the
summer of 2016. “This growth will continue”,
says Tobiassen.
Norwegian shipyards have also a foot inside the offshore wind business. Kværner Verdal has built the steel bottom for the turbines in German offshore wind farms. Umoe Mandal now builds hovercraft catamarans that will transport personnel to and from the wind turbines in a comfortable fashion. Oma Båtbyggeri at Stord, having built many high-speed passenger boats, has signed the shipyard’s first contract for building high-speed boats for staff in the wind power industry. Odfjell Wind AS from Bergen is the company in charge of ordering these boats for transporting workers. The sky is the limit for Norwegian industry in this growing market for production of renewable energy at sea. According to the organization Norwegian Energy Partner, (earlier known as Intpow and Intsok) more than 500 billion NOK has been spent on investment and operating costs in the European offshore wind industry since 1991. The prognosis indicates that another 1000 billion NOK will be spent in the years leading up to 2025.
Norway’s dedication to best practice has
resulted in a multidisciplinary approach to
HSE-related studies in the fields of medicine
and technological innovation, which is
beneficial from a human aspect and for
long-term investment purposes. There is
broad agreement between the Norwegian
government, oil companies, unions and
research bodies to improve safety standards,
already very high, within the sector.
The Research Council of Norway’s largescale
Petromaks 2 programme works to
promote knowledge creation and industrial
development in order to ensure enhanced
value creation for Norwegian petroleum
resources within an environmentally
sustainable framework.
Norwegian researchers have found that
the incidence of skin cancer which shows
that oil workers who have had direct
contact with crude oil and benzene have
a greater risk of developing skin cancer.
The PETROMAKS 2 funded research
concluded that some cases of skin cancer
were specific to the forearms and hands
from the elbow and beneath, where the risk
of direct contact was the highest.
According to Tom K. Grimsrud, senior
researcher in occupational medicine, “the
relevance and benefits are that this research
addresses the growing concern that work
in the offshore industry may cause health
damage.” The findings will lead to improved
monitoring of work conditions and better
hazard control which reduce the risk of work-related
skin cancers. There is continuous dialogue,
unique to Norway, between researchers,
unions, industry and the regulating
authorities. This benefits the industry directly
by providing opportunities for joint R&D
projects which assists production efficiency.
The Norwegian petroleum sector is an
important employer, and information on
potential health effects is of public interest.
The research, carried out by the Cancer
Registry of Norway, studied the incidence
of skin cancer between 1999 and 2010
amongst 25,000 oil workers working in the
North Sea between 1965 and 1998.
“We found that oil workers exposed to crude
oil and benzene for ten years or more had
up to seven times higher risk of skin cancer
on the hands and forearms compared with
those who were never exposed,” says Dr.
Jo S. Stenehjem postdoctoral fellow of the
Cancer Registry’s research department.In
terms of environmental impact, it is hoped
that improvement in the chemical working
conditions with enclosed systems and
improved monitoring may increase awareness
which may lead to better external air quality.
Another example of Norwegian safety
initiative is the technological development
of a “safety water curtain”, which improves
safety by preventing compressed air
from escaping and forming an explosive
atmosphere which can ignite with the
slightest spark or with static electricity.
This technology has been developed for
large installations where both accidents
and development costs are highest. But
with this new technology, less installation
equipment is needed, thereby reducing
costs which benefit the industry from both
a HSE and profitability perspective.
“The aim of this new technology can
be used to reduce spacing and hence reduce plot plan sizes which in turn can
be cost driving especially for offshore
development.” says Asmund Huser,
Safety Specialist at DNV GL, a Norwegian
company which specializes in quality
assurance and risk management.
“The goal is to increase the profit and
the competitiveness of the Norwegian
Continental Shelf (NIS) to maintain
investments and jobs in the Norwegian
petroleum industry.” says Anders
J. Steensen, Special Advisor and
Programme Coordinator, DEMO 2000,
a demonstration and qualification
programme for technology.
The project called Dowes is run by DNV GL
and is a joint industry project (JIP) with support
from DEMO 2000 which aims to investigate
the effect of a “safety curtain” separating two
process areas and how this can be used to
reduce or prevent spreading of large-scale
explosions. The concept is different in that the “safety curtain” is designed to be used when
an accident has already happened so that
damage can be contained. Large-scale testing
in the UK is due to begin and the outcome is
expected to be interesting for the industry.
The term “black swan” was coined
as a metaphor for something which
is impossible to predict but could still
happen. The concept is defined as “a
surprising extreme event relative to one’s
knowledge/beliefs.”
In risk assessment, this is used to focus
attention on the fact that serious incidents
and accidents are possible. These are
incidents which nobody had thought of
or known about, which had been ignored
or regarded as inconceivable. These are
referred to as the unknown unknowns, the
unknown knowns and known dangers that
are considered highly unlikely and therefore
will not be realized.
The term “black swans” is used to sharpen
awareness of and caution about uncertainty
and risk related to activities in the oil and
gas industry. “Black swans” help to identify
uncertainty and risk before the threat of an
accident becomes a reality. The Petromaks
2 funded project which comes under the
heading “Black Swans – an enhanced
perspective on risk” is a risk assessment
project run by Professor Terje Aven of The
University of Stavanger. This “enhanced
perspective on risk” involves uncertainty,
knowledge and surprises and how to
manage them. This approach goes beyond
the traditional probability-based principles
to offer a broader insight into the important
aspects of uncertain events and in doing
so explores the ways to manage them.
For example, a hydrocarbon blowout
on an oil installation could be analyzed
based on certain knowledge and several
assumptions. Traditional risk analysis
considers consequences and probabilities
associated with known factors which, while
important, is often not enough according
to Professor Aven, which can lead to
important risks being overlooked leading to
bad decisions being made.
“Knowledge is the key to preventing all
these dangers,” says Aven, “but different
approaches and methods are required
as preparing for the unthinkable and the
unlikely are not the same.”
The aim of the project is to continue
developing new principles and methods
to meet safety challenges in the oil and
gas industry.
Aquateam COWI’s key areas include:
Seawater InjectionHasleveien10
NO-0571 Oslo, Norway
Email: aquateam@aquateam.no
Tel: +47 22 35 81 00 +47 22 35 81 00
Fax: +47 22 35 81 10
Website: www.aquateam.no
The main products range from simple weather stations to advanced complete helideck monitoring systems and environmental monitoring systems for marine and offshore users and other demanding applications. Typical add-on functions include anchor line monitoring, stress monitoring, motion and accelerations measurements, alarm functions, SCADA applications and many others. Offshore MetOcean Systems are exposed to the most extreme weather conditions and are not only expected to function in these conditions, but expected to measure accurately, providing correct data in order to document these conditions. All offshore platforms and vessels need environmental data for daily operational use and as an important tool for safety purposes. In more recent years these systems are also being tailor-made to measure the movements and conditions of the helideck and are used as a tool for improving the safety for helicopter traffic.
The company has had its software package DADAS in use in a large number of MetOcean data systems all over the world since 1992. The DADAS software is basically a general data acquisition package incorporating a very fl exible display module, a comprehensive reporting module, alarm modules and the possibility to control smaller processes directly. DADAS-PB is a special version now being used as standard MetOcean software for all Petrobras installations.
These are often known as EMS/EMP systems, weather stations or MetOcean systems and are a very important tools for many users onshore and offshore. EMS systems using the well proven DADAS software from Automasjon og Date have been in use for more than 18 years and have an excellent track record
Automasjon og Data has been involved in developing helideck monitoring systems since these systems were first introduced. New systems will comply with all known rules and regulations worldwide, including the CAA CAP 437, NORMAM 27 and the Norwegian Standard for HMS systems.
Drilling in deeper waters will often bring challenges related to fl uctuating and unpredictable currents. These may have a critical infl uence on both rig location and installation of expensive equipment. A system equipped with profiling current sensors (ADCPs) can give vital information about these parameters. DADAS software has simple and userfriendly displays that will give the user a quick and useful understanding of the situation. Current profilers with capability of measuring down a depth of 1,000 meters are available and can be tailor made for an installation. Automasjon og Data has developed current sensor deployment systems both for through hull deployment and for external guideline based installations for all kinds of offshore installations.
Automasjon og Data has vast experience in selecting, operating and maintaining the best sensors for the tough operational conditions offshore. Only sensors with an excellent track record will be recommended for use in such critical applications. The company can supply everything from single sensors to complete turn-key systems.
Automasjon og Data has a well qualified team of offshore service engineers, including experienced and certified support engineers onshore, who can undertake service work on all makes and models of MetOcean systems, EMP / EMS systems, HMS systems, meteorological and oceanographic sensors, etc. The company’s workshop is equipped for servicing and calibrating most kinds of sensors and instrumentation and has a fast track supply line for spare parts.
Automasjon og Data can perform an unconditional survey of older MetOcean systems—regardless of supplier—to evaluate the condition of the system and the need for upgrades. A thorough report is issued after the survey that documents the status of existing equipment, proposes upgrades if necessary and shows how such upgrades can result in less service and maintenance.
The Quality Management System is ISO-9001:2008- certified by DNV and all manufacturing and testing is documented thoroughly. The Quality Management System has been audited and approved by a number of third parties, among them Achilles Joint Qualification System and CAA.
Nikkelveien 14
NO-4313 Sandnes, Norway
Email: post@automasjon.no
Tel: +47 51 12 30 80 +47 51 12 30 80
Fax: +47 51 12 30 81
Website: www.automasjon.no
Comet Consular Services’ strategy allows the
company to satisfy any need that a potential
client might have. Be it a business visa to
China, a Certificate of Origin that needs an
embassy stamp or an employee that needs to
be relocated to a foreign country.
This enables the clients to focus on their
core business. Thanks to a global network
of partners, Comet is able to help its clients
conduct business all over the world. All
partners worldwide are selected carefully
and thoroughly checked to ensure that they
fit the Comet mode of operation in terms of
compliance and values.
Comet employs around 50 specialists that are stationed throughout the offices in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. 50 – 60 embassies and instances such as the Notary Public and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are visited everyday which enables the company to be up to date with all requirements and regulations these instances have. Clients of Comet operate on a varying field of different markets such as Oil & Gas, Life Science and Manufacturing companies, to name a few. The company itself operates in all markets where there is a need for its services.
Nikkelveien 14
Rådhusgata 9A, 0151 Oslo
Postboks 371, Sentrum 0102 Oslo
Email: info@cometconsular.no
Tel: +47 21 93 97 21 +47 21 93 97 21
Fax: +47 51 12 30 81
Website: www.cometconsular.com
DeepOcean’s competitive strength lies in its ability to provide a suitable spread for solving its clients’ subsea challenges. The company has access to both owned and chartered DPII class subsea support and construction vessels as platforms for mobilizing suitable equipment fit for each work scope. DeepOcean’s owned equipment ranges from work class and observation class ROVs, module handling systems, carousel systems, subsea ploughs, jet trenching ROVs and mechanical trenchers, as well as a substantial pool of other subsea tools.
DeepOcean is in business to generate industry leading returns for all its stakeholders through the provision of safe, quality and innovative subsea services, while embodying a dynamic, fun and winning culture to attract and retain the best talent in the industry. DeepOcean has a global team of over 1,100 highly professional and experienced employees with a range of capabilities covering design, project engineering, geotechnical, project management and operational expertise.
DeepOcean’s project teams combine youthful enthusiasm and highly skilled experienced colleagues in a dynamic and vibrant work environment. The company is still small enough that each one contributes to the success and big enough so that employees are inspired to engage in personal development and take on new challenges. To support its operations, DeepOcean has its own marine base facilities in the UK, Norway and the Netherlands, as well as mobilization capacities in Brazil, Mexico and Singapore.
At DeepOcean, the distance is short between planning and offshore operations. The company’s employees really appreciate this and it gives ownership to the tasks in the projects and provides a fast and effective way for exchanging experience and on-the-job training.
Survey & Seabed MappingNikkelveien 14
PO Box 2144 Postterminalen
NO-5504 Haugesund, Norway
Email: info@cometconsular.no
Tel: +47 52 70 04 00 +47 52 70 04 00
Fax: +47 52 70 04 01
Website: www.deepoceangroup.com
NEK Kabel has a long history of
developing products for various
industrial customers. NEK Kabel
has unique knowledge of standards,
certificates and international
specifications.
Ship and offshore products include
LAN cable, bus cable, RF coaxial cable
and fibre optical cable. NEK Kabel can
meet any specific requirements as oil- or
MUD resistance, UV-resistance, extreme temperatures, extreme mechanical
resistance, subsea or fire resistance.
NEK Kabel can also offer cable
meeting EMC-requirements.
NEK Kabel supply cable products
to customers in Europe, America
and Asia.
PO Box 186
NO-1471 Lørenskog, Norway
Email: firmapost@nek-kabel.no
Tel: +47 67 91 21 80 +47 67 91 21 80
Fax: +47 67 91 21 90
Website: www.nek-kabel.no
Fjell Technology Group research has developement and engineering competence. With a wide range of experience and proven excellence in oil and gas upstreammidstream- downstream technology, maritime technology and environmental technology, Fjell Technology Group is at the forefront of complex projects delivery through the application of the following:
The group’s team of specialists has a proven track record in thermodynamics, fl uid dynamics, process design, and mechanical design. Fjell Technology Group is an expert in process development, process design, installation and commissioning of process equipment and plant as well as complete EPCI of systems involving phase separation, mass transfer and heat transfer. Fjell Technology Group has the capability to perform engineering studies and advanced FEM-analyses that exhibit linear, nonlinear and transient material and geometry behaviour. Demanding challenges are undertaken, evaluated and solved by stress and strain analysis and fl uid flow analysis.
All engineering and production is performed in-house including pressure vessel design thermal design and 2-D and 3-D mechanical design. As a trusted partner Fjell Technology Group currently develops and delivers process solutions and key ready plants to the petrochemical industries’ biggest players. Innovation and commitment are of paramount importance in all projects performed by their skilled and experienced team.
From conception to birth providing full service delivery Fjell Technology Group offers quality process solutions for the on and offshore industries.
Idrettsveien 103-105
NO-5353 - Straume, Norway
Email: post@fjelltg.com
Tel: +47 56 33 43 00 +47 56 33 43 00
Fax: +47 56 33 43 01
Website: www.fjelltg.com
Located in Straume, Norway, FSP is at the
heart of all the on and offshore industries in
Norway, allowing the company to work closely
in collaboration with some of the petrochemical
industry’s biggest players. FSP focuses on
engineering products to the offshore energy
industry worldwide, providing integrated
services and with a proven track record in
delivering complex projects in deep-water and
challenging environments. FSP are experts
in seabed products, servicing and complete
maintenance and repair. FSP’s expertise in
subsea operations is the key to pioneering
products with lower complexity and high
mechanical strength. These are produced
with great production efficiency and without
compromising on quality and/or safety,
enabling the low cost and fast delivery needs
of today’s subsea industry to be met. As a new
entrant into the subsea market sector, FSP has
supplied products and services to a number
of leading offshore operators and service
companies globally, including Statoil, NTOS
and Aker Solutions.
FSP is a growing company building its business
around a valued, energetic and motivated
workforce. FSP pride themselves on being an
integrated international team with colleagues
from all over the world bringing experience
to FSP. With the shortest lead times in the
industry, the company is confident it can deliver
faster than anyone else ensuring that its clients’
operations mobilize and deliver more quickly.
FSP is one of the leading suppliers of hydraulic couplers and valves for the subsea industry globally – acknowledged for smart design and fast and reliable deliveries.
Idrettsveien 103-105
NO-5343 Straume, Norway
Email: post@fjellsp.com
Tel: +47 56 31 26 00 +47 56 31 26 00
Fax: +47 56 33 43 01
Website: www.fjellsubseaproducts.wixsite.com/fjellsp2/home
- Our raison d’être
Hansen Protection is the market leader and
manufacturer of immersion suits. All suits are
tested and approved according to the most
stringent national and international standards. The
company places great emphasis on innovation
and development and pushes the boundaries at
the leading edge of design, ergonomics, materials
and suitability for purpose. Hansen Protection
develops and refines different types of suits in close
collaboration with specific user groups to ensure
optimal design and performance. Functionality
is particularly important. The company´s unique
approach to customization and extensive service
network makes it the preferred partner.
Hansen Protection´s high-tech SeaWind suit is certified by SOLAS, ISO and EASA. As such it is approved for most of the most demanding work situations imaginable. No other survival suit can match its suitability for such a wide range of applications.
Hansen Protection has two Emergency Breathing Systems. One manual and one automatic. Both systems can be supplied with Hansen Protection´s range of SeaAir survival suits. The company´s manual Emergency Breathing System is classified as a “rebreather”. It is connected to an integrated infl atable lung and one breathes through a mouthpiece and “reuses” one’s own air. Hansen Protection set a new standard for automatic Emergency Breathing Systems when it launched SeaAir EBS. Suitable for use in extreme cold, being able to start breathing whilst still under water, a unique nose clip and other features make this one of the best automatic solutions on the market.
(Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon)
Our HPL EPIRB is specifically designed for helicopter
transport passengers wearing our emergency
immersion suits. The device is integrated in the
suits to facilitate quick and easy localization. The
emergency distress location signal is activated
automatically when the wearer ends up in the sea.
Head Office: Tykkemyr 27, 1597 Moss, Norway
Email: hpro@hansenprotection.no
Tel: +47 69 00 13 00 +47 69 00 13 00
Fax: +47 69 00 13 01
Website: www.hansenprotection.no
HTS Maskinteknikk works closely with customers in demanding sectors like subsea, defence and aerospace in the role of a mechanics subcontractor and partner. Parts from the company’s production have found their way to the deepest subsea installations as well as to satellites bound for outer space. HTS Maskinteknikk, based in Drammen in the heart of the ‘Subsea Valley’ and close to the technological milieu in Kongsberg, supplies customers all around the world. Currently, approximately 50% of the company’s production is directly exported.
HTS Maskinteknikk specializes in high precision
turning, milling and sophisticated welding
related to its turning and assembly production.
The impressive range of machines is among
the most modern and extensive in Norway.
More than fifty (CNC) numerical machines,
many of them customized to make one or a few
products, reflect a clear and targeted strategy.
The company has always been willing to
engage its resources in prototype production,
but with its extensive range of machines and
skilled people the company balances it with a
constant flow of serial work at the same time.
After a massive wave of investments in buildings
and machines several years ago resulting in,
amongst others, the Deckel Maho department
which features impressing milling precision and
capacity, HTS Maskinteknikk has increased the
number of dedicated turning machines for its
subsea components during recent years.
Just in 2014 there were four new machines
installed and paired with its organic
growth it has now reached a comfortable
capacity level where it is prepared to have
continuous growth in the subsea sector.
Furthermore, HTS Maskinteknikk has also
made considerable investments within
programming and has a good base of
skilled programmers for five axis dynamic
milling through the Mastercam tool that was
installed last year.
The importance of quality welding has been
increasingly emphasized in recent years,
and HTS Maskinteknikk has definitely been
at the forefront when it comes to investing
in advanced welding equipment. The
company’s welding is performed under
laboratory-like conditions where the key
factor for success lay in perfecting the
repetitiveness controlling all the perimeters
in order to obtain the best possible
weld. The company approached Danish
manufacturer Migatronic and had a custom
made welding centre based on their special
needs. The centre has a robot and two
workstations providing both efficiency and
great HSE advantages. After three years of
service the company sees close to 0-defect
capability in the welding process and thus
the second machine was ordered. After only
a few months in service HTS Maskinteknikk
has now received a third welding machine
and seems to be well prepared for market
expectations for the years to come.
HTS has an extensive range of welding
qualifications for various materialcombinations
utilized for the subsea
industry, and in diameters up to 1 inch.
HTS has always put a lot of effort into control and inspection and its main control department has its flooring separate from the rest of the building to ensure maximum accuracy in the company’s measurements. In total, three CMM measuring machines offers the opportunity to the continuous serial measuring of finished parts as well as control during production. During 2013 the company also invested in a scanner and a profile measuring machine for efficient in process measurements. HTS has even invested in its own calibration machine to ensure calibration of its equipment and the company also does some calibration for other companies.
With over 6,200 square metres featuring
operator-friendly working conditions, all
processes, including NDT and pressure
testing, are managed in-house in order to
achieve cost effective and efficient logistics
as well as a maximum of flexibility to support
the company’s customers’ needs.
HTS Maskinteknikk has a very dynamic
organization and swiftly implements
improvements that will become necessary
in the future. A major ramp-up in personnel
has been made since 2012 to better
respond to the markets’ needs and what
the future seems to hold.
HTS Maskinteknikk is proud to be a major
mechanical actor with a base in Norway.
PO Box 1624
NO-3007 Drammen, Norway
Tel: +47 32 23 46 50 +47 32 23 46 50
Website: www.htsm.no
The company’s experience from the oil and
gas industry has been closely associated
with the development of the North Sea oil
and gas fields. Since the early 1970s, leading
expertise in complex offshore concrete and
steel structure has been developed using
advanced tools for the analyses and design.
Multiconsult has extensive experience with
developments in Arctic climates.
Multiconsult’s expert teams are often
integrated in a larger project organization,
with staff delegated responsibility for defined
project areas such as design and follow up
of offshore components and installations,
or complete civil works in the case of
onshore projects.
Multiconsult has a wide range of experience
from complex and challenging projects
both offshore and onshore, carried out in
successful participation with Norwegian
and international companies.
Nedre Skøyen vei 2 • NO-0275 Oslo, Norway
Tel: +47 21 58 50 00 +47 21 58 50 00
Fax: +47 21 58 50 01
Email: ivar.eng@multiconsult.no
Website: www.multiconsult.no
With over 40 years in the onshore industry,
Olimb Offshore’s experience from challenging
assignments can also benefit the
offshore industry.
Internal pipe renewal using Olimb Offshore
products can double the service life of pipes.
Olimb’s first major offshore installation was
on the Statfjord B platform in 1992, where
the company’s task was specifically to
extend the service life of existing pipes.
Olimb Offshore can document that a
successful pipe renewal is also a sound
financial investment.
The primary objective of the methods the
company uses is to stop further corrosion of
the existing pipe and prevent leaking from
low-pressure pipes.
Sarpsborgveien 115
1640 Råde, Norway
4852 Faervik, Arendal, Norway.
Tel: +47 69 28 17 00 +47 69 28 17 00
Email: rolf.dalby@olimb.no, pcn@olimb.no
Website: www.olimboffshore.no
Rolls-Royce Marine specializes in ship design and the design and delivery of propulsion, positioning, maneuvering, motion control and ship systems. The company is one of the world´s foremost suppliers of marine propulsion systems, deck machinery and steering and stabilizing systems for the offshore, merchant and naval segments of the global marine market.
The company places great emphasis on fulfilling customer requirements – often designing and developing vessels before customers request them – and creating innovations that anticipate future demands. Its UT series ship designs are built worldwide. Rolls-Royce system solutions include fully integrated ship equipment systems in which the company provides designs and relevant documentation, delivery coordination, and guarantees of high quality and low lifecycle costs. It also offers a wide range of consultancy services, ranging from initial design to ship equipment supply and planned maintenance.
Technological strength and decades of experience gives Rolls-Royce the ability to design, build, deliver and support fully integrated system solutions.
Marketing dept.
PO Box 1522 NO-6025 Aalesund, Norway
Tel: +47 815 20 070 +47 815 20 070
Fax: +47 66 77 56 01
Email: commercial.marine@rolls-royce.com
Website: www.rolls-royce.com
TechnipFMC is uniquely positioned to deliver greater efficiency across project lifecycles from concept to project delivery and beyond. Through innovative technologies and improved efficiencies, TechnipFMC offering unlocks new possibilities for its clients in developing their oil and gas resources.
Each of the company´s employees is driven by a steady commitment to clients and a culture of purposeful innovation, challenging industry conventions, and rethinking how the best results are achieved.
To learn more about TechnipFMC and how the company is enhancing the performance of the world’s energy industry, go to www.TechnipFMC.com and follow the company on Twitter @TechnipFMC.
Technip Norge AS
P.O Box 400
1327 Lysaker, Norway
Tel: +47 67 58 85 00 +47 67 58 85 00
Fax: +47 66 77 56 01
Website: www.technipfmc.com
FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS
P.O.Box 1012
3601 Kongsberg, Norway
Tel: +47 32 70 67 00 +47 32 70 67 00
TESS offers complete engineering, procurement, construction and installation services. Together with Partners, TESS undertakes the full responsibility of:
TESS has extensive field experience and product knowledge. TESS service personnel receive continuous training and assessment; certified by DNV approved training courses. The company offers strategic Service Agreements, Customer Support and Life Cycle Care Systems aimed at improving operational efficiency and HSE/QA performance. Including:
TESS’ experts and engineering staff are
continuously improving the product range
enabling TESS to meet the present and
future demands. TESS is innovative, and
cooperates directly with world leading
manufacturers:
Hoses and couplings
TESS has a quality assurance system in accordance with the requirements in ISO 9001:2008 and NS-EN ISO 3834-2:2006.
...and other world class customers!
Industrigt. 8, Frydenlund
3414 Lierstranda, Norway
P.O. Box 1540
3007 Drammen, Norway
Tel: +47 32 84 40 00 +47 32 84 40 00
Email: tess@tess.no
Website: www.tess.no
The TCC® has unique characteristics which are the consequence of generating heat through friction. A major differentiator compared to any thermal technology is the extreme short retention time of the waste in the TCC unit which not only results in recovered oil that is comparable to newly created base oils but also in very clean solids, a high processing capacity and a small footprint. A very important effect of the friction process is that it allows for full temperature control meaning temperature stability and the possibility to adjust temperatures immediately when needed to achieve an optimum separation result. With almost 60 TCC units in operation in the world, the TCC is the most applied technology for treatment of oily drilling waste and the TCC is the only thermal system used offshore.
Thermtech AS is located in Bergen, Norway and is the owner of the TCC technology. Thermtech supplies mobile units, stationary units and offshore units. Thermtech’s mission is to support its customers, mainly oilfield services - and waste management companies, to deliver superb treatment services of oily waste streams.
A TCC unit will be tailored to meet specific needs which derive from project specific requirements, climate conditions and environmental objectives such as discharge limits. Once the technical specification of the unit has been agreed upon with the customer, Thermtech will perform the detail engineering and the manufacturing of the unit. Installation and Commissioning is done by Thermtech field engineers in close cooperation with the customer’s personnel.
Once the unit is on location and in operation, Thermtech field engineers will stay on site to supervise the execution and to perform on-thejob- training and education of the customer’s operations personnel. Once the operators are well trained, Thermtech engineers move out. In Norway Thermtech has a workshop in which process mills are produced and refurbished, a test center for new waste streams and a warehouse for the storage of spare parts. From Mongstad, spare parts are distributed all over the world and if required field engineers are travelling to location to perform repairs. From the office at Paradis, remote technical support is provided through Internet connections with the TCC® units securing the optimum performance.
Jacob Kjødes veg 15
5232 Paradis, Norway
Tel: +47 55 60 40 60 +47 55 60 40 60
Fax: +47 55 60 40 61
Email: post@thermtech.no
Website: www.thermtech.no
Kvale’s core oil and gas team numbers 10
lawyers. Statoil ASA has been Kvale’s main oil
and gas client since the firm was founded. Kvale
now acts for many of the large and medium-sized
oil and gas companies and various suppliers on
the Norwegian continental shelf and abroad.
Our team has a long and broad experience
from the upstream sector, and the strong
ability to understand the commercial risks
involved and provide tailor made legal advice
arguably gives us a unique market position.
We regularly assist in complex development
projects, corporate and asset transactions,
financing and restructuring and a broad range
of operational issues applicable to the oil and
gas industry. We follow our clients from their
entrance to the Norwegian continental shelf
through the exploration and production phase
until the final abandonment of the various fields.
Kvale has been involved in some of the largest
litigation cases within the oil and gas industry,
and is rated as a top tier oil and gas firm.
The core oil and gas partners are all top
ranked by international rating bureaus,
and combines an extensive experience
from both Norwegian and international
oil and gas projects.
Jens Brede is one of the leading oil and
gas litigators in Norway, and has been
involved in several of the largest court cases
during the last decades. Yngve Bustnesli
is also highly rated by international rating
bureaus, and has extensive experience with
contractual and regulatory issues related to
all parts of the petroleum activities. Bustnesli
is one of the co-authors of the reference
book on Norwegian Petroleum Law
published in January 2010, and is also the
author to the book “Petroleumsregelverket”
(English: “The Petroleum Regulations”)
published in November 2013 (Vol. I & II).
Erik Brannsten has extensive experience
from domestic and international offshore
construction projects, and is a leading
lawyer within this field.
“Kvale Advokatfirma DA is the best law
firm in oil and gas sector, procurement
and construction.”
“Kvale Advokatfirma Da’s Jens Brede is
regarded by some as the best lawyer in
Norway for offshore construction-related
work, and is able to grasp very complicated
technical issues and discuss such issues
in a contractual context.”
“Client comments that Yngve Bustnesli’s
knowledge of oil and gas regulations is
second to none.”
“The ‘very client-focused’ Erik Brannsten,
who has ‘practical and solid expertise in
offshore construction’, is increasingly
handling international work such as
his current involvement in a major oil
development programme in Brazil.”
(Quotations from leading international rating
bureaus)
PO Box 1752, Vika
NO-0122 Oslo, Norway
Tel: +47 22 47 97 00 +47 22 47 97 00
Fax: +47 21 05 85 85
Email: post@kvale
Website: www.kvale.no
Yngve Bustnesli:
NO-0122 Oslo, Norway
Tel: + 47 99 33 57 57 + 47 99 33 57 57
Email: ybu@kvale.no
Today, business knows no borders. With over 2,400 people working from more than 42 offices worldwide, Intertrust has the local knowledge and cultural understanding needed to succeed – wherever you are or want to be.
With Intertrust’s international network of experts in law, accounting, finance and tax, the company covers a full range of trust and corporate services.
Corporate servicesIntertrust has been the world’s
leading provider of quality trust and
corporate services for over sixty
years. Many leading multinationals,
financial institutions, alternative
investment funds and entrepreneurs
have chosen Intertrust as their preferred
service provider across the globe.
Intertrust always takes a personal
approach and long-term perspective on
building client relationships. Intertrust
works closely with its business partners
to help you succeed.
Whatever the company can do
for you, you can trust Intertrust to
always act within 24 hours and with
uncompromising integrity.
Bryggegata 6, 5th floor
P.O. Box 2051 Vika
0125 Oslo, Norway
Tel: +47 23 30 83 20 +47 23 30 83 20
Fax: +47 23 30 83 29
Email: oslo@intertrustgroup.com
Website: www.intertrustgroup.com
To utilize the ocean’s marine resources efficiently and sustainably, it is crucial to obtain accurate, up-to-date, information about the continuously changing ocean environment. Traditional approaches of collecting environmental data from research vessels are costly and requires significant investments in labor and equipment. To meet future challenges and opportunities, routine and continuous access to information on the ocean’s biological and oceanographic conditions is crucial for all ocean industries and for managers of ocean and coastal resources.
Businesses and environmental managers at the forefront are seeking easily accessible high quality ocean data, and increasingly from more remote areas of the ocean. Therefore, scientists are now testing unmanned ocean vehicles, equipped with a range of sensors, as a more cost-effective approach to collect large sets of data over vast areas of the ocean. The unmanned ocean vehicles collect data from the ocean surface and deeper in the water-column. They are easily re-programmed to adapt to changing data-collection needs and to operate in new ocean areas.
The project “GLIDER - Unmanned Ocean Exploration” is financed by the Research Council of Norway DEMO2000 program, with additional support from the offshore industry. The research and consultancy company Akvaplan-niva (Tromsø, Norway) is leading the project. In 2017, the project consortium will perform a series of technology testing activities. Three different unmanned vehicles was deployed August 1st outside Sandnessjøen, Norway, and retrieved September 7th at Bodø, Norway. In 2018, the unmanned vehicles will be continuously deployed from March through September.
The vehicles are a diving Seaglider™ (produced by Kongsberg Maritime AS), a Sailbuoy (produced by Offshore Sensing AS) and a Wave Glider (operated by Maritime Robotics AS). These are energy efficient platforms that also take advantage of energy from waves, wind and solar power. They are equipped with a GPS and programmed and navigated from land.
Each vehicle carries a variety of sensors for the collection of chemical, physical and biological ocean and atmospheric data. These sensors provide continuous measurements of weather, waves, currents, temperature, salinity, O2, CO2, pH, ocean acidification, marine algae, animal plankton, fish fry and marine mammals. The Glider project will collect a vast amount of metocean and environmental data in time and space at greater flexibility and lower cost compared to traditional sampling.
The project will use this experience to realize a professional business solution to manage data-collection and to develop data-analysis routines that can be offered to different markets for field campaigns to acquire both, short- and long-term, time-series of data. The project will, in cooperation with users, develop a system for distribution and management of the collected data. This will ensure that data are tailor-made for different marine and maritime industrial users (such as offshore oil and gas, aquaculture, fisheries, offshore mining and tourism), and for government authorities and the research sector. The goal is to offer baseline information for decision making to support profitable ocean businesses and governmental management. The collected data will contribute to better understanding of the structure and function of the marine ecosystem, improving existing ecological, oceanographic and meteorological models.
The partners in this project will use this experience to realize a professional business solution to manage data-collection and to develop data-analysis routines that can be offered to different markets for field campaigns to acquire both, short- and longterm, time-series of data.
In addition to Akvaplan-niva AS, the research and innovation partners are Met.no, the Norwegian Institute of Norwegian Institute for Water Research, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Nord University, Kongsberg Maritime AS, SIMRAD, Maritime Robotics AS, Offshore Sensing AS, Christian Michelsen Research AS, Aanderaa Data Instruments AS and ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS.
is led by the research and
consultancy company Akvaplan-niva
(Tromsø, Norway)
For more info, contact Salve Dahle,
Director Akvaplan-niva
Phone: +47 90649490.
E-mail: sda@akvaplan.niva.no
Fram Centre
NO-9296 Tromsø, Norway
Email: info@akvaplan.no
Tel: +47 77 75 03 00 +47 77 75 03 00
Fax: +47 77 75 03 01
Website: www.akvaplan.no
NORSAR’s Department of Microseismic Monitoring conducts research and consulting services with focus on:
To observe microseismicity, networks of geophones need to be installed in a specially designed configuration. Ideally, long strings of geophones should be deployed in several wells. However, offshore costs have pushed for an alternative solution using large sea floor deployments.
To facilitate this process, NORSAR has developed the commercial software MDesign.
NORSAR’s first processing results obtained from such sea fl oor sensors at the Oseberg field demonstrate that microseismicity can be detected and successfully located.
Geological storage of CO2 in large scales will inevitably change the stress field within and around the selected storage reservoir. If such stress field changes exceed the strength of rock, or the strength on pre-existing faults and fractures, the stress field will be relaxed through sliding of the rock along such fractures and faults. For the safety of any CO2 storage site, real-time detection and location of such microseismicity is required.
The unique advantage of microseismic monitoring is the real-time aspect. Once the smallest amounts of microseismic activity occurs, this information can be reported to the operators within seconds. Hence, countermeasures to e.g. reduce injection pressures can be initiated immediately. In addition to the risk management aspects, the occurrence of microseismicity within the reservoir will allow the operators to track the pressure front of the injection process. The principles of induced seismicity apply also to many other research areas, such as mining, rock-slope monitoring and hydrocarbon production.
Gunnar Randers vei 15
PO Box 53,
N-2007 Kjeller, Norway
Email: info@norsar.no
Tel: +47 63 80 59 00 +47 63 80 59 00
Fax: +47 77 75 03 01
Website: www.norsar.no
CO2 storage must be scaled up immensely in order to meet legally-binding emissions targets of the Paris agreement
The challenges for oil and gas companies charged with operating and monitoring mega-scale storage operations are to predict capacity, maximize efficiency and minimize risk. Uni Research CIPR has developed a suite of fit-for-purpose methodology to meet the developing needs of industry where traditional methods fall short.
Standard reservoir simulators are un-fit to meet the challenges of gigatonne CO2 storage. Kilometer-wide CO2 plume migration must be coupled with centimeter-scale physics of convectivedissolution.
At the same time, injection-induced pressure pulses can extend 100s of kilometers into far-field, high-risk zones. Fit-for-purpose simulators are more efficient than one-size-fits-all.
The VESA software provides:Operators must demonstrate containment to conform to regulatory frameworks. Seal integrity must be ensured around faults and fractured zones.
Leakage of fluid and pressure outside of the licensed area can cause unwanted costs and project delays. Uni Research CIPR can provide reliable assessment of fault stability and other high-risk features in the reservoir.
Geological consulting includes:Geophysical monitoring is crucial for operational safety and efficiency. Key issues are: CO2 placement, hazardous pressure buildup, CO2 leakage to the overburden, and history matching. Proper use of geophysical monitoring results requires the ability to interpret (invert) the data.
Uni Research CIPR employs 40 researchers with expertise in mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology and engineering. Most researchers in the department have education at the PhD level with many years of experience in international projects.
Specific areas of R&D are:PO Box 7810
N-5020 BERGEN
Norway
Email: cipr@uni.no
Tel: +47 55 58 50 00 +47 55 58 50 00
Fax: +47 77 75 03 01
Website: www.uni.no/en/uni-cipr
NORWAY EXPORTS – Oil & Gas
Communication Equipment & Accessories
Databases, Software Development Tools
Technical Oil/Gas-Related Software Systems (Reservoir, Geological, Drilling, etc.)
Casing, Tubing, Liner, Connectors & Accessories (OCTG)
Coil Tubing Tools & Accessories
Down Hole Pressure Control Equipment
Drilling & Mud Handling Modules
Drilling Tools & Retrievable Production Tools
Pipe Handling & Lifting Equipment
Production String Components
Subsea Equipment
Wellhead Equipment, X-Mas Trees & Accessories
Engines
Gear Boxes, Gear Units, Couplings
Hydraulic Drivers
Propulsion Units & Accessories
Turbines
Cables, Cords, Wires & Accessories
Generators, Power Sources, Units & Accessories
Oil Recovery Equipment & Accessories
Wastewater Disposal/Recovery Equipment
Closed Loop Water Treatment
Coolers & Condensers
Heat Exchangers
Waste Heat Recovery Units
Instrument & Communication Cables
Meteorological Instruments/Equipment
Process Control & Monitoring Equipment & Systems
Anchoring/Buoying Equipment
Pipeline Equipment, Connectors & Accessories
ROVs, ROV Tools & Accessories
Ship Gears
Metering Equipment & Systems
PIPES/TUBES/HOSES & FITTINGS
Safety & Protection Equipment/Products, Life Boats & Life Rafts
Columns & Accessories
Pressure Vessels, Drums, Accumulators
Storage Tanks incl. Spheres & Accessories
Valves
FPSO Vessls
Heavy Lift/Construction Vessels
ROV Support Vessels
Stand-by Vessels
Supply Vessels
Tug Vessels
Uniforms & Other Types of Clothing
General Management Consultancy Services
Geological Consultancy Services
Geophysical Consultancy Services
Health, Safety & Environment
Legal Services
Meteorological Services
Reservoir Consultancy Services
Risk Analysis
Simulation Services
Translation Services & Manual Writing Services
Welding & Other Jointing Services
Exploration & Development Services
Well Completion Services
Well Overhauling/Stimulation Services
Well Testing
Wellhead Services
Workover
Civil Engineering/Concrete Structures
Construction Management & Supervision
Design, Engineering & Training Services
Electro/Instrumentation
Equipment/Mechanical
Fire & Gas Protection Systems
General Engineering Services
Marine Technology/ Hydro-/Aerodynamics
Material Technology/Anti-Corrosion/Surface Protection
Pipelines
Produced Water Treatment
Project Administration
Steel/Construction/Architectural
Subsea/Diving/ROV Technology
Telecommunications
Wastewater Treatment
Weight Control
Computer-Based Modelling
Condition Monitoring
Diving/ROV
Dredging
Hook-Up/Commissioning/Decommissioning Services
Installation of Subsea Packages
Pipelaying
Removal & Disposal of Redundant Installations/Units
Subsea Pipeline Protection
Trenching & Excavation
Reservoir Evaluation
Geological & Geophysical
Information Technology
Oil & Gas Production
Safety & Environmental
Subsea
Chart & Map Production
Geophysical Services
Geotechnical Services
Photogrammetry Surveying
Soil Investigation
Hydrocarbon Reservoir Development & Production Services
Well Management/Construction Services
Hydrocarbon Reservoir Development & Production Services
Well Management/Construction Services
The following list provides an overview of the Norwegian embassies, Consulate Generals and Innovation Norway offices located internationally. For more information on Norwegian embassy and Consulate General activities, please visit www.norway.info
Kabul - Embassy
Wazir Akbar Khan, Street 15, Lane 4, Kabul
Tel: +93 (0) 701 105000 +93 (0) 701 105000
Fax satellite: +93 (0) 799 837956
Email: emb.kabul@mfa.no
L’Ambassade Royale de Norvège à Alger, 07,
Chemin Doudoud Mokhtar, Ben-Aknoun, 16035 Alger
Tel: +47 23955583 +47 23955583
Fax: +213 (0) 21 94 64 64
Email: emb.alger@mfa.no
Luanda – Embassy
Rua Garcia Neto nº 9, C.P. 3835, Luanda
Tel: +244 222 447522 +244 222 447522 / +244 222 447922 +244 222 447922
Fax: +244 222 446248
E-mail: emb.luanda@mfa.no
Buenos Aires – Embassy
Carlos Pellegrini 1427 - 2do piso, C1011AAC Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Tel: +54 (0) 11 4328 8717 +54 (0) 11 4328 8717
Fax: +54 (0) 11 4328 9048
Email: emb.buenosaires@mfa.no
Baku – Embassy
11 floor, ISR Plaza, 69 Nizami str., Baku
Tel: +994 12 4974325 +994 12 4974325 / +994 12 4974326 +994 12 4974326 / +994 12 4974327 +994 12 4974327
Fax: +994 12 4973798
Email: emb.baku@mfa.no
Canberra – Embassy
17 Hunter Street; Yarralumla, Canberra ACT 2600
Tel: +61 26 27 05 700 +61 26 27 05 700
Fax: +61 26 27 05 701
Email: emb.canberra@mfa.no
Wien – Embassy
Reisner Str. 55, A-1030 Wienna
Tel: +43 (0)1 71 660 / +47 23 95 37 83 +43 (0)1 71 660 / +47 23 95 37 83
Fax: +43 (0)1 - 71 660 99
Email: emb.vienna@mfa.no
Dhaka – Embassy
Bay’s Edgewater 6th Floor, Plot 12, North Avenue
Gulshan 2, Dhaka 1212
Tel: +8802 55668570 +8802 55668570
Email: emb.dhaka@mfa.no
Brussels – Embassy
Rue Archimede 17, B-1000 Brussels
Tél: +32 02 23 87 300 +32 02 23 87 300
Fax: +32 02 23 87 390
Email: emb.brussels@mfa.no
Sarajevo – Embassy
Ferhadija 20; 2nd floor, 71000 Sarajevo
Tel: +387 33 254 000 +387 33 254 000
Fax: +387 33 666505
Email: emb.sarajevo@mfa.no
Brasilia – Embassy
SES 807 Avenida das Nacões; Lote 28, CEP 70, BR-418-900
Brasilia - DF
Tel: +55 61 3443 8722 +55 61 3443 8722 / +55 61 3443 8720 +55 61 3443 8720
Fax: +55 61 3443 2942
Email: emb.brasilia@mfa.no
Rio de Janeiro – General consulate
Rua Lauro Muller, 116-Suite 2206
Torre do Rio Sul/Botafogo
CEP: 22 290-160, Rio de Janeiro
Tel: +55 21 2586 7500 +55 21 2586 7500
Fax: +55 21 2586 7599
Email: cons.gen.riodejaneiro@mfa.no
Rio de Janeiro – Innovation Norway
Rua Lauro Muller, 116 - Suite 2206, Torre do Rio
Sul /Botafogo,
22290-160Rio de Janeiro
Tel: +55 (21) 2586-6800 +55 (21) 2586-6800
Fax: +55 21 2275 0161
Email: riodejaneiro@innovasjonnorge.no
Ottawa – Embassy
150 Metcalfe Street, Suite 1300, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1P1
Tel: +1 613 238 6571 +1 613 238 6571
Fax: +1 613 238 2765
E-mail: emb.ottawa@mfa.no
Toronto – Innovation Norway
2 Bloor Street West Suite 2120, Toronto
Ontario M4W 3E2
Tel: +1 416 920 0434 +1 416 920 0434
Fax: +1 416 920 5982
Email: toronto@innovasjonnorge.no
Praha – Embassy
Hellichova 1, CZ-11800 Praha 1 Malá Strana
Tel: +420 2 57323737 +420 2 57323737 / +420 2 57323737 +420 2 57323737
Fax: +420 2 57326827
Email: emb.prague@mfa.no
Santiago de Chile – Embassy
San Sebastián 2839; Of. 509, Las Condes, Santiago
Tel: +56 2 234 2888 +56 2 234 2888 / +56 2 234 2889 +56 2 234 2889
Fax: +56 2 234 2201
Email: emb.santiago@mfa.no
Beijing Embassy
1, Dong Yi Jie; San Li Tun, CN-Beijing 100600
Tel: +86 10 6532 2261 +86 10 6532 2261
Fax: +86 10 6532 2392
Email: emb.beijing@mfa.no / kina@innovasjonnorge.no
Shanghai – General Consulate
Room 1701, Bund Center, 222 East Yan’an Road
Huangpu District, Shanghai 200002
Tel: + 86 21 - 6039 7500 + 86 21 - 6039 7500
Fax: + 86 21 - 6039 7501
Email: cg.shanghai@mfa.no
Guangzhou – Consulate General
Suite 1802, Citic Plaza, 233 Tian He North Road
Guangzhou 510613
Tel: +86 20 3811 3188 +86 20 3811 3188
E-mail: cg.guangzhou@mfa.no
Bogota – Embassy
OXO CENTER, Cra. 11A No.94-45, Of.904, Bogota
Email: emb.bogota@mfa.no
Zagreb – Embassy
Hektoroviceva 2/3, HR-10 000 Zagreb
Tel: +385 1 6273 800 +385 1 6273 800
Fax: +385 1 6273 899
Email: emb.zagreb@mfa.no
Havana – Embassy
Calle 21 #307, e/ H e I
Vedado, Ciudad de La Habana
Tel: +53 7 842 7100 +53 7 842 7100
Email: emb.havana@mfa.no
Copenhagen – Embassy
Dampfærgevej 10, 4. sal, 2100 København Ø
Tel: +45 72 11 19 00 +45 72 11 19 00
Email: emb.copenhagen@mfa.no
Copenhagen - Innovation Norway
Dampfærgevej 10, 4. sal., 2100 København Ø.
Tel: +45 4075 2084 +45 4075 2084
Email: copenhagen@innovationnorway.no
Cairo – Embassy
8, El Gezirah Street; Zamalek, ET-Cairo
Tel: +2 02 27283900 +2 02 27283900
Fax: + 2 02 2737 0709
Email: emb.cairo@mfa.no
Tallinn – Embassy
Harju 6, 15054 Tallinn
Tel: +372 62 71000 +372 62 71000
Fax: +372 62 71001
Email: emb.tallinn@mfa.no
Talinn - Innovation Norway
Harju 6, 15054 Tallinn
Tel: +372 6313 466 +372 6313 466
Fax: +372 6313 468
Email: tallinn@innovationnorway.no
Addis Abeba – Embassy
Buna Board Road, Mekanissa, Addis Abeba
Tel: +251 11 3710799 +251 11 3710799
Fax: +251 113 711255/3713605
Email: emb.addisabeba@mfa.no
Helsinki – Embassy
Rehbinderintie 17, FIN-00150 Helsingfors
Tel: +358 09 686 0180 +358 09 686 0180
Faks: +358 9 657 807
Email: emb.helsinki@mfa.no
Helsinki – Innovation Norway
Mannerheimintie 5 C, FI-00100 Helsinki, Finland
Tel: +358 20 7551 210 +358 20 7551 210
Email: helsinki@innovationnorway.no
Paris – Embassy
28, Rue Bayard, 4ème étage, F-75008 Paris
Tel: +33 1 5367 0400 +33 1 5367 0400
Fax: +33 1 5367 0440
Email: emb.paris@mfa.no
Paris - Innovation Norway
22, rue de Marignan, 75008 Paris
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 23 00 50 +33 (0)1 53 23 00 50
Email: paris@innovationnorway.no
Berlin – Embassy
Rauchstr. 1, D-10787 Berlin
Tel: +49-30-505050 +49-30-505050
Fax: +49-30-505055
Email: emb.berlin@mfa.no
Hamburg – Innovation Norway
Caffamacherreihe 5, 20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 22 94 15 0 +49 40 22 94 15 0
Fax: +49 40 22 94 15 88
Email: hamburg@innovasjonnorge.no
Accra - Embassy
Royal Norwegian Embassy, PMBT CT 6, Cantonments, Accra
Tel: + 233 302 241 539 + 233 302 241 539
Email: emb.accra@mfa.no
Athens – Embassy
Hatziyianni Mexi 5, GR-115 28 Aten
Tel: +30 210 7246173 +30 210 7246173
+4723982700 +4723982700
Fax: +30 210 7244989
Email: emb.athens@mfa.no
Guatemala – Embassy
14 Calle 3-51, Zona 10, Edificio Murano Center, Nivel 15,
Ca-Guatemala 01010
Tel: +502 2506 4000 +502 2506 4000
Fax: +502 2366 5823
Email: emb.guatemala@mfa.no
Budapest – Embassy
Ostrom u. 13 , H- 1015 Budapest
Tel: +36 1 212 9400 / 04 / 05 +36 1 212 9400 / 04 / 05
Fax: +36 1 212 9410
Email: emb.budapest@mfa.noo
Reykjavik – Embassy
Fjólugt. 17, IS-101 Reykjavik
Tel: +354 520 0700 +354 520 0700
Fax: +354 552 9553
Email: emb.reykjavik@mfa.no
New Delhi – Embassy / Innovation Norway
50 C Shantipath; Chanakyapuri, IND-110 021 New Delhi
Tel: + 91 11 41 77 92 00 + 91 11 41 77 92 00
Fax: + 91 11 41 68 01 45
Email: emb.newdelhi@mfa.no / newdehli@innovationnorway.no
Mumbai - General Consulate
TCG Financial Centre, 3rd Floor, C-53, G Block
Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra (E), Mumbai
Tel: +91 022 61330700 +91 022 61330700
Email: cg.mumbai@mfa.no
Jakarta – Embassy
Menara Rajawali Building, 25> th floor, Mega Kuningan,
Kawasan Mega Kuningan, Jakarta 12950
Tel: +62 21 576 1523 / 24 +62 21 576 1523 / 24
Fax: +62 21 576 1537br>
Email: emb.jakarta@mfa.no
Teheran – Embassy
No 201 Dr. Lavasani St. (Ex-Farmanieh St.), Corner of Sonbol
St., Teheran
Tel: +98 21 2229 1333 +98 21 2229 1333
Fax: +98 21 2229 2776
Email: emb.tehran@mfa.no
Dublin – Embassy
34 Molesworth Street, IRL-Dublin 2
Tel: +353 1 662 1800 +353 1 662 1800
Fax: +353 1 662 1890
Email: emb.dublin@mfa.no
Tel Aviv – Embassy
40 Einstein Street, Canion Ramat Aviv,
13. Etg., 69101 Tel Aviv
Tel: +972 3 740 19 00 +972 3 740 19 00
Fax: +972 3 744 1498
Email: emb.telaviv@mfa.no
Rome – Embassy
Via delle Terme Deciane 7, I-00 153 Rome
Tel: +39 06 45238100 +39 06 45238100
Fax: +39 06 45238199
Email: emb.rome@mfa.no
Rome - Innovation Norway
Via Cappuccini 2, 20122 Milan
Tel: +39 02 854 514 11 +39 02 854 514 11
Email: milano@innovationnorway.no
Tokyo – Embassy
Minami Azabu 5-12-2; Minato-Ku, J-Tokyo 106-0047
Tel. +81-3-6408-8100 +81-3-6408-8100
Fax. +81-3-6408-8199
Email: emb.tokyo@mfa.no
Amman – Embassy
25 Damascus Street, Abdoun, Amman
Tel: +962 6 593 1646 +962 6 593 1646
Email: emb.amman@mfa.no
Nairobi – Embassy
58, Red Hill Road, Gigiri
P.O.Box 2472 Village Market, 00621 Nairobi
Tel: +20 425 1000 +20 425 1000
Email: emb.nairobi@mfa.no
Nairobi - Innovation Norway
Tel: +254 20 76 06 100 +254 20 76 06 100
Email: IN-EA@innovationnorway.no
Prishtina – Embassy
Sejdi Kryeziu, Blok IV, Qteza Pejton,
Tel: +381 38 232 111 00 +381 38 232 111 00
Fax: +381 38 232 111 22
Email: emb.prishtina@mfa.no
Riga – Embassy
Kalku iela 15, P.O.Box 181, Riga LV-1050
Tel: +371 678 14100 +371 678 14100
Fax: +371 678 14108
Email: emb.riga@mfa.no
Riga - Innovation Norway
Elizabets 51, Riga
Tel: +371 269 757 82 +371 269 757 82
Email: riga@innovationnorway.com
Lithuania
Beirut – Embassy
Embassy Complex, Serail Hill, Beirut
Phone: + 961 1960 000 + 961 1960 000
Fax: +961 1960 099
Email: emb.bey@mfa.no
Vilnius – Embassy
K. Kalinausko g. 24, 3rd floor, 03107 Vilnius
Tel: +370 5 2610000 +370 5 2610000
Fax: +370 5 2610100
Email: emb.vilnius@mfa.no
Vilnius - Innovation Norway
Didziojo 25-20, LT-01128 Vilnius
Tel: +370 687 30 775 +370 687 30 775
Fax: +370 5 21 227 46
Email: vilnius@innovationnorway.no
The Embassy Section in Antananarivo
Batiment 2D, Business Explorer Park (ex. Village des Jeux)
Ankorondrano, 101 Antananarivo, P.O Box 12180, 101
Antananarivo
Tel: +261 (0) 20 22 305 07 +261 (0) 20 22 305 07
Fax: +261 (0) 20 22 377 99
Email: emb.sec.antananarivo@mfa.no
Lilongwe – Embassy
Arwa House, City Centre, P/Bag B 323, Lilongwe 3
Tel: +265 1 774211 +265 1 774211 / +265 1 771212 +265 1 771212
Fax: +265 1 772845
Email: emb.lilongwe@mfa.no
Kuala Lumpur – Embassyz`
53 Floor, Vista Tower, The Intermark
348 Jalan Tun Razak, 50400 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +60 3 2175 0300 +60 3 2175 0300
Fax: +60 3 2175 0301
Email: emb.kualalumpur@mfa.no
Mexico D.F. – Embassy
Avenida Virreyes 1460; Col Lomas Virreyes, C.P. 11000
Mexico D.F.
Tel: + 52 55 55 40 34 86/87 + 52 55 55 40 34 86/87 /
+ 52 55 55 40 52 20/21 + 52 55 55 40 52 20/21
Fax: +52 55 52023019
Email: emb.mexico@mfa.no
Rabat – Embassy
6, rue Beni Ritoune, Quartier Souissi, Rabat
Tel: +212 (0)5 37 66 42 00 +212 (0)5 37 66 42 00
Fax: +212 (0)5 37 66 42 91
Email: emb.rabat@mfa.no
Maputo – Embassy
Ave. Julius Nyerere 1162, Maputo
Tel: +258 21 480 100/1/2/3/4 +258 21 480 100/1/2/3/4 /
+258 21 485 072/4 +258 21 485 072/4
Fax: +258 21 480 107/ + 258 21 485 076
Email: emb.maputo@mfa.no
Yangon - Embassy
No. 7 Pyi Thu Street, Pyay Road Ward (6),
7 Miles Mayangone Township, Yangon
Tel: +95 1 966 9520 +95 1 966 9520
Fax: +977 1 5545226
Email: emb.yangon@mfa.no
Katmandu – Embassy
Surya Court, Pulchowk, Lalitpur
Tel: +977 1 5545307-8 +977 1 5545307-8
Fax: +977 1 5545226
Email: emb.kathmandu@mfa.no
The Hague - Embassy
Eisenhowerlaan 77J, NL-2517 KK The Hague
Tel: +31 0 70 311 7611 +31 0 70 311 7611
Fax: +31 (0) 70 311 7629
Email: emb.hague@mfa.no
Haag - Innovation Norway
Tel: +31 70 346 73 48 +31 70 346 73 48
Fax: +31 70 360 74 28
Email: thehague@innovationnorway.no
Abuja – Embassy
No. 54, T.Y. Danjuma Street, Asokoro, Abuja
Tel: +234 0 9291 4529 +234 0 9291 4529 /
+234 0 9291 5487 +234 0 9291 5487
Email: emb.abuja@mfa.no
Islamabad – Embassy
H 25, Str. 19, F 6/2, Islamabad
Tel: +92-51-2077700 +92-51-2077700
Fax: +92 51 227 9729, +92 51 227 9726
Email: emb.islamabad@mfa.no
Al Ram – Representational office (West Bank/Gaza)
World Bank Building, First floor
Dahiat Al-Bareed, Al Ram, West Bank
Tel: +972 2 234 5050 +972 2 234 5050
Fax: +972 2 234 5079
Email: repram@mfa.no
Manila – Embassy
Petron Mega Plaza Bldg., 21st floor, 358 Senator Gil Puyat
Avenue,
1209 Makati City, Metro Manila
Tel: +(63 2) 886 3245-49 +(63 2) 886 3245-49
Fax : +(63 2) 886 3384
Email: emb.manila@mfa.no
Warsaw – Embassy
ul. Fr. Chopina 2A, PL-00-559 Warszawa
Tel: +48 22 629 0936 +48 22 629 0936
Fax: +48 22 629 8005
Email: emb.warsaw@mfa.no
Warte Tower, Chmielna 85/87, 00-805 Warszaw
Tel: +48 22 581 0 581 +48 22 581 0 581
Fax: +48 22 581 0 981
Email: warsaw@innovationnorway.no
Lisbon – Embassy
Avenida D. Vasco da Gama 1, P-1400-127 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 300 9100 +351 21 300 9100
Fax: +351 21 300 9101
Email: emb.lisbon@mfa.no
Buchurest – Embassy
Strada Atena 18, 011832 Bucharesti
Tel: +40 21 210 0274 / 76 / 77 +40 21 210 0274 / 76 / 77
Fax: +40 21 210 0275
Email: emb.bucharest@mfa.no
Buchurest - Innovation Norway
Tel: +40 (0)21 203 4844 +40 (0)21 203 4844
Fax: +40 (0)21 203 4847
Email: bucharest@innovationnorway.no
Moscow – Embassy
Povarskaja ul. 7, Moskva, Russland 121069
Tll: +7 499 951 1000 +7 812 6124100
Fax: +7 499 951 1001
Email: emb.moscow@mfa.no
Moscow - Innovation Norway
4 Dobryninskiy pereulok, 8 “Dobrynia” business centre Floor 2, Office 313, 119049
Tel: +7 495 663 6830 +7 495 663 6830
Fax: +7 495 663 68 31
Email: moscow@innovationnorway.no
Murmansk – Consulate General
Ulitsa Sofji Perovskoj 5, RUS-183038 Murmansk
Tel: +7 815 2 400 600
+7 815 2 400 600
Fax: +7 815 2 457 451/ +7 815 2 456 871
Email: cons.gen.murmansk@mfa.no
St. Petersburg – Consulate General
Ligovsky pr, 13-15, 191014 St. Petersburg
Tel: + 7 812 612 41 00 + 7 812 612 41 00
Fax: + 7 812 612 41 01
Email: cg.st.petersburg@mfa.no, visa.spb@mfa.no
Riyadh – Embassy
Diplomatic Quarter, Riyadh
Tel: +966 1 488 1904 +966 1 488 1904
Fax: +966 1 488 0854
Email: emb.riyadh@mfa.no
Beograd - Embassy
Uzicka 43, YU-11040 Beograd
Tel: +381 11 367 0404-05 +381 11 367 0404-05
Fax: +381 11 369 0158
Email: emb.belgrade@mfa.no
Singapore – Embassy
16 Raffles Quay; No 44-01 Hong Leong Bldg., Singapore 048581
Tel: +65 6818 2000 +65 6818 2000
Fax: +65 6220 2191
Email: emb.singapore@mfa.no
Singapore - Innovation Norway
Tel: +65 6222 1316 +65 6222 1316
Fax: +65 6224 7079
Email: singapore@innovationnorway.no
Bratislava – Embassy
Palisády 29, 811 06 Bratislava
Tel: +421 2 59 10 01 00 +421 2 59 10 01 00
Fax: +421 2 59 10 01 15
Email: emb.bratislava@mfa.no
Madrid – Embassy
Calle Serrano 26, 5ª Planta 28001 Madrid
Tel: +34 91 436 38 40 +34 91 436 38 40
Fax: +34 91 436 38 79
Email: emb.madrid@mfa.no
Madrid - Innovation Norway
Real Embajada de Noruega Plaza de Colón, 2 - planta 20, torre
II, 28046 Madrid
Tel: +34 91 344 09 87 +34 91 344 09 87
Email: madrid@innovasjonnorge.no
Colombo – Embassy
49 Bullers Lane, Colombo 7
Tel: +94 115608700 +94 115608700
Fax: +94 115608799
Email: emb.colombo@mfa.no
Khartoum – Embassy
House no. 63, Street 49, Khartoum II
Tel: +249 183 578336 +249 183 578336 / +249 183 578343 +249 183 578343 / +249 183 578345 +249 183 578345
Fax: +249 183 577180
Email: emb.khartoum@mfa.no
Bern – Embassy
Bubenbergplatz 10, CH-3011 Bern
Tel: +41 31 310 5555 +41 31 310 5555
Fax: +41 31 310 5550
Email: emb.bern@mfa.no
Stockholm – Embassy
Skarpögatan 4, S-115 27 Stockholm
Tel: +46 8 58723600 +46 8 58723600
Fax: 08-587 236 99
Email: emb.stockholm@mfa.no
Stockholm – Innovation Norway
Sveavägen 64, SE-111 34 Stockholm, Sverige
Tel: +46 8 791 8300 +46 8 791 8300
Email: stockholm@innovasjonnorge.no
Damaskus – Embassy
Mezzeh, Eastern Villas, Shafei Street building number 2
Tel: +963 11 612 2941 +963 11 612 2941
Email: emb.damascus@mfa.no
Pretoria – Embassy
Ozmik House, 165 Lynnwood Road, Brooklyn
Tel: +27 12 364 3700 +27 12 364 3700
Fax: +27 12 364 3799
Email: emb.pretoria@mfa.no
Pretoria - Innovation Norway
Ozmik House, 165 Lynnwood Road, Brooklyn, 0181 Pretoria
Tel: +2712 364 0700 +2712 364 3700
Fax: +2712 362 4287
Email: southafrica@innovationnorway.no
Cape Town - Innovation Norway
Norton Rose House, 16th Floor, 8 Riebeek Street, 8000 Cape
Town
Tel: +087 150 0120 +087 150 0120/ +087 150 0128 +087 150 0128
Fax: +2712 362 4287
Email: southafrica@innovationnorway.no
Seoul – Embassy / Innovation Norway
13th fl. Jeong-dong Building, 15-5 Jeong-dong, Jung-gu
Seoul 100-784, Republic of Korea
Tel: +82 (02) 727 7100 +82 (02) 727 7100
Fax: +82 (02) 727 7199
Email: emb.seoul@mfa.no / seoul@innovationnorway.no
Juba - Embassy
Hai Malakal, Juba
Tel: +47 23 95 79 02 +47 23 95 79 02 /
+211 959 000257 +211 959 000257
Email: emb.juba@mfa.no
Dar es Salaam – Embassy
160/50 Mirambo Street, Dar es Salaam
Tel: +255 22 211 3366 +255 22 211 3366
Fax: +255 22 211 6564
Email: emb.daressalaam@mfa.no
Bangkok – Embassy
UBC II Building, 18th floor, 591 Sukhumvit Road, Soi 33,
Bangkok 10110
Tel: +66 (0)2 204 6500 +66 (0)2 204 6500
Fax: +66 2 262 0218
Email: emb.bangkok@mfa.no
Bangkok - Innovation Norway
Blue Business Solutions Ltd., 14th Fl. Mahatun PlazaBangkok
Email: bangkok@innovationnorway.no
Ankara – Embassy
Kirkpinar Sokak No. 18; 06540 Cankaya, Ankara
Tel: +90 312 408 4800 +90 312 408 4800
Fax: + 90 312 408 48 99
Email: emb.ankara@mfa.no
Kampala – Embassy
Plot 18B Akii-Bva Road, Nakasero, Kampala
Tel: +256 417 11 2000 +256 417 11 2000
Fax: +256 414 34 3936
Email: emb.kampala@mfa.no
Kyiv – Embassy
Vul. Striletska 15, 01901 Kyiv
Tel: +38 044 281 2200 +38 044 281 2200
Fax: +38 044 281 2299
Email: emb.kiev@mfa.no
Abu Dhabi – Embassy
Etihad Towers, West Courniche, Tower No. 3 Level 11, Abu
Dhabi
Tel: (+971)-240 38400 (+971)-240 38400
Fax: (+971)-240 38401
Email: emb.abudhabi@mfa.no
Abu Dhabi - Innovation Norway
Nordoest, FZ LLC PO Box 54224, Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates
Tel: +971 566 018 336 +971 566 018 336
Email: matteo.chiesa@innovationnorway.no
London – Embassy
25 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8QD
Tel: +44 20 7591 5500 +44 20 7591 5500
Fax: +44 20 7245 6993
Email: emb.london@mfa.no
London - Innovation Norway
West End House, 11 Hills place, London, W1F 7SE
Tel: +44 20 7389 8800 +44 20 7389 8800
Fax: +44 207 973 0189
Email: infouk@innovasjonnorge.no
Washington – Embassy / Innovation Norway
2720, 34th Street N.W., Washington D.C. 20008-2714
Tel: +1 202 333 6000 +1 202 333 6000
Fax: +1 202 337 0870
Email: emb.washington@mfa.no / washington@innovationnorway.no
Houston – Consulate General / Innovation Norway
3410 West Dallas Street, Houston, TX 77019
Tel: + 1 (713) 620-4200 +1 (713) 620-4200
Fax: +1 (713) 620-4290
Email: cg.houston@mfa.no / houston@innovasjonnorge.no
New York – Consulate General
825 Third Avenue; 38th floor, New York, N.Y. 10022-7584
Tel: +1 212 421 7333 +1 212 421 7333
Fax: +1 212 754 0583
Email: cons.gen.newyork@mfa.no
New York - Innovation Norway
655 Third Avenue, Room 1810, 10017-911 New York
Tel: +1 212 885 9700 +1 212 885 9700
Fax: +1 212 885 970
Email: newyork@innovationnorway.no
San Francisco – Consulate General
575 Market Street, Suite 3950, San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel: +1 415 882 2000 +1 415 882 2000
Fax: +1 415 882 2001
Email: cons.gen.sanfrancisco@mfa.no
San Fransisco & Silicon Valley -
470 Ramona Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301-1707
Tel: +1 650 325 5500 +1 650 325 5500
Email: sanfrancisco@innovationnorway.no
Hanoi – Embassy
10th Floor, Block B, Vincom City Towers, 191 Ba Trieu Street,
Hanoi
Tel: +84 4 3974 2930 +84 4 3974 2930
Fax: +84 4 3974 3301
Email: emb.hanoi@mfa.no
Hanoi - Innovation Norway
Tel: +84 4 3974 2933 +84 4 3974 2933
Fax: +84 4 3974 3303
Email: hanoi@innovationnorway.no