Highlights:Becoming the Leading Advisor for the Artificial Lift discipline within Equinor. Collaborating and presenting a white paper at the ESP SPE Symposium 2021.

Skills:Artificial Lift, Petroleum, Drilling, Energy, Excel, Presentations, Leadership, Communication

Goal:To make a meaningful visible impact for the employer I work for and also to be recognized by my peers for my contribution.

Membership:Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

Certification:Baker Hughes Engineering Development program 1.9 (2006) Introduction to Petroleum - University of Texas (2006) Better Commercial Decisions (BCD) short course - Harvard University (2018) provided through role in Equinor. Equinor Leading Advisor Leadership Programme (2018)

Specialist 06/2021 - current
Equinor ASA, Stavanger, Rogaland Norway
Industry: Energy sector
Artificial lift Specialist role covering mainly Electrical Submersible Pumps and Gas-lift
• Developed a new digitalization overview for reliability of Artificial lift technologies (Predominantly Gas-lift and ESP’s). • Assisted in development of white paper for the use of the revised ISO 15551 standard which was presented at the ESP symposium in 2021. • Key role in assessing field development and brownfield. opportunities for new Artificial lift technology implementation. • Internal and external partner presentations given on continuous improvement in relation to the use of ESP’s and Gas-lift valves. • Developed an internal guideline for external publications of technical papers toward industry.--
Leading Advisor 06/2017 - 06/2021
Equinor ASA, Stavanger, Rogaland Norway
Industry: Energy sector
Leading Advisor for Artificial lift discipline covering mainly Electrical Submersible Pumps and Gas-Lift.
• Developed a strategy for the Artificial lift discipline within Equinor. • Responsible for the development of the Artificial lift discipline. network, including quality assistance, competence. development and experience transfer. • Developed a multi-disciplinary guideline for Artificial lift lifecycle management to be used in all operating assets. • Main technical contact within Equinor towards internal technology/ project developments and external suppliers with respect to Artificial lift (predominantly ESP and gas-lift valves). • Provided ESP training to various internal field developments.--
Principle Engineer - Completions 04/2014 - 06/2017
Statoil UK LTD, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire United Kingdom
Industry: Energy sector
Completion Engineer - covering various aspects of the planning of new wells. Main focus on Electrical Submersible Pumps and the wellhead and X-Tree delivery.
• Contract responsible for the Wellhead and XT deliveries. • Focal point for the multi-disciplinary platform interfaces group. • Developed a RACI chart for the D&W Organization. • Supervised several System Integration tests for both the ESP and Wellhead & XTs. • Focal point for ESP system design and interfaces towards topsides systems (VSD and Control system)--
Senior engineer – Completions 02/2012 - 04/2017
Statoil ASA, Stavanger, Rogaland Norway
Industry: Energy sector
Working as a senior engineer in the Completions engineering department following up Artificial lift within the company (mainly ESP's)
• Developed an ESP system specification for the Mariner & Bressay field development projects. • Provided ESP technical support to operating assets on Norwegian Continental Shelf. • Focal point for several ESP technology developments and engineering FEED study deliveries for UK field development work.--
Product Line Manager 01/2011 - 02/2012
Baker Hughes ASA, Stavanger, Rogaland Norway
Industry: Energy sector
Technical sales manager for Baker Hughes Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESP's) in Norway.
• Personnel development of Artificial lift engineering team (10 people). • Responsible for all technical tenders & FEED study submissions towards operators. • Quality assurance of work performed by Norway technical engineering team.--
Applications/Project Engineer 05/2007 - 01/2011
Baker Hughes ASA, Stavanger, Rogaland Norway
Industry: Energy sector
Project engineer working across two field development projects Baker Hughes were contracted to work on to provide the Electrical Submersible Pumps.
• Managed interface between vendors (Siemens and ABB) for the design and integration of the control system for the Electrical Submersible Pumps. • Responsible for managing the cost time resource management overview for the project. • Desk engineer for Talisman Norge AS.--
Applications Engineer 12/2005 - 05/2007
Baker Hughes UK LTD, Stavanger, Rogaland Norway
Industry: Energy sector
Engineer as part of a UK technical sales team. My role was to provide Electrical Submersible Pump designs for the customers and follow the design through to installation and operation.
• Prepared ESP designs for various UK Operators (Chevron, Apache, BP and CNR. • Supported clients with troubleshooting and analysis of ongoing ESP operations. • Client representative for discussions on ESP production strategies (Texaco Captain).--

University of Aberdeen 09/2001 - 07/2005
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Electronic and Software Engineering
I completed my Electronic and Software Bachelor of Engineering with honors degree in the summer of 2005 at the age of 21. The studies comprised of working across Mechanical, Civil and Electrical Engineering for the first 2 years before specializing in Electronic and Software Engineering for the last 2 years (4 in total).

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