Two new leaders enter team to propel subsea control system service activities in Norway and to build stronger partnerships in the Middle East.
Global controls technology company Proserv has appointed two new General Managers (GM) for its businesses in Stavanger, Norway and Doha, Qatar. Rune Christian Godejord and Trevor Ogilvie count more than 30 years’ experience in the energy industry between them, including in subsea oil and gas and topside controls across multiple regions.
Rune Christian Godejord has taken up the role of GM in Stavanger, joining Proserv from oilfield services company Baker Hughes where he was Country Manager for Norway, with responsibility for its subsea ventures and topside activities. Godejord has worked for more than 20 years in the oil and gas segment, with the majority of that time spent at TechnipFMC. In previous posts, he has overseen a sales function extending across the Eastern Hemisphere and built up a controls system business while based in Singapore.
Godejord has experience in expanding subsea operations and this is a crucial target area for Proserv which has a key subsea technology and R&D Centre of Excellence based in Trondheim in central Norway. There are close synergies between these sites and Godejord will leverage them to accelerate further activities in Norwegian waters for Proserv’s renowned solutions, including its augmented controls technology (ACT).
Stavanger represents a major service and production hub for Proserv with multi-faceted onshore, offshore and subsea capabilities, including manufacturing, maintenance, installation, testing, rental and trading. With activities increasing, Godejord expects to oversee an uptick in head count over the next 12 months to facilitate the anticipated growth in subsea controls services.
Speaking after his appointment, Godejord commented:
“I am really excited to have joined Proserv’s team and to have the opportunity to grow such a strategically important global site for the business.
“There is so much potential within the Norwegian market where our subsea controls services can offer real change and impact to improve production reliability, maximise assets and increase margins. I look forward to engaging my own experience and know-how to help push forwards this ambition.”
Meanwhile, Trevor Ogilvie has taken on the responsibility of GM in Doha, having joined Proserv more than two years ago as its Technical Sales Manager for Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Ogilvie has extensive experience in the oil and gas industry in the Arabian Gulf and has also spent time in the UK during more than five years with integrated solutions provider Alderley. Before moving to Proserv, Ogilvie was the Middle East Operations Manager for a leading storage tank specialist.
Proserv’s facility in Doha delivers a broad range of service support including manufacturing, onshore and offshore maintenance and trading, with some of the world’s biggest OEMs and national energy companies among the regular clientele. Ogilvie will leverage his experience working with the major national players in the region to further build his team’s portfolio of customers. Ogilvie stated:
“I am delighted to take on this important role to extend our presence in Qatar. We have a wide range of skills in Doha, as well as a strong array of capabilities we can harness globally, and my focus will be to position our team as a trusted go-to service partner for national operators. We are already successfully demonstrating what we can offer, and building relationships, but there is much more we can do to support their operations.
“We have a template for success from our excellent team in Abu Dhabi and we have the same opportunity here to replicate that.”
Angus Rodger, Proserv’s Vice President, Services observed:
“In Rune and Trevor, we have recruited two highly talented individuals who know their regions really well and will utilise that knowledge to accelerate growth in their respective sites. Proserv is a global business, with a wide portfolio of expertise, and we will leverage this connectivity to support Rune and Trevor in their efforts.”
Davis Larssen, CEO, Proserv, added:
“We welcome and congratulate Rune and Trevor on their new roles. In both Stavanger and Doha, we have the infrastructure in place, and the opportunity in sight, to significantly expand our activities and business. We can make a real difference right across the subsea market in Norway with our unique technologies, while in the Middle East we have spent time building valued relationships with national energy companies and there is scope for us to broaden that much further.”
Earlier this summer, we sponsored a key industry event, the Subsea Cable Insurance Workshop, organised and hosted by Global Underwater Hub (GUH), looking at one of offshore wind’s biggest challenges – subsea cable and termination faults and failures. We call this issue the industry’s “elephant in the room”. Here is a summary of a day, spotlighted in GUH’s latest news magazine, when the industry came together to debate a way forward, and to share insights, including the thoughts of our CEO Davis Larssen.
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Our Vice President, Renewables, Paul Cook has featured on the front cover of the new OGV Renewables Quarterly published by OGV Energy in association with RenewableUK. Paul gives an exclusive interview about the challenges that floating offshore wind could present for dynamic cables and he emphasises that only holistic monitoring, incorporating electrical parameters, can give a true picture of condition and performance of cable assets including terminations.
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We have featured in a full page interview in the ADIPEC Show Daily newspaper. In it our Vice President, Services, Angus Rodger talks about how we are engaging disruptive, impactful technologies from right across our business to support the needs and requirements of our service partners, as part of our holistic asset and infrastructure management methodology. The article also features a photo of two key members of our digital innovation team – Duaa Ibrahim and Andrew Rodger.
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Nicola Birnie, General Manager, Dubai and Chris Chambers, General Manager, Saudi Arabia have provided a thought leader to OGV Energy’s International Growth focused monthly title exploring the essentials of providing effective holistic service support with the backdrop of the changing energy landscape. The article looks at the need to balance traditional service capabilities with new digital offerings designed to monitor and optimise key processes and performance.
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ECG™, our holistic subsea cable monitoring system for offshore wind, drives our selection for this major industry award event.
Proserv has been selected as a finalist in the highly coveted Innovative Supply Chain Company of the Year category at the upcoming Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) Awards 2023, one of the energy industry’s most renowned and competitive awards events.
Our step change in holistic cable monitoring, ECG™, is the focus of our shortlisting. The technology is a powerful example of supply chain collaboration and innovation, with our partners Synaptec and BPP Cable Solutions coming together alongside us to share expertise and know-how to deliver a unique solution to address cable faults and failures, one of offshore wind’s major challenges.
ECG™ delivers real-time monitoring of cable assets with predictive intelligence insights reducing the threat of unexpected failures and downtime, therefore enhancing power generation, boosting ROI and enabling proactive O&M strategies with informed, targeted use of OPEX directly where needed.
The technology is a genuine shift in traditional monitoring systems, as it not only employs temperature and acoustic sensing, but uniquely it engages Synaptec’s distributed electrical sensors, or DES, via passive electrical and mechanical sensor systems. ECG™ also provides effective, detailed monitoring of cable terminations, a well-known failure point and one not adequately covered by other solutions.
Since its development, a little over two years ago, ECG™ has secured a major contract on Dogger Bank Wind Farm, set to be the world’s biggest, and this year it will be installed on Equinor’s Hywind Scotland, the world’s first commercial floating wind farm.
Paul Cook, Vice President, Renewables, commented:
“Many thanks to OEUK, and its judges, for this much appreciated shortlisting. It is testament to the great narrative behind the development of ECG™, a technology that offers real support to the acceleration of offshore wind’s rollout. We have come together with other supply chain companies to pool our expertise and innovate a new, impactful solution.
“Cable failures are a real challenge for the industry but understanding the needs of the market, listening to it, and collaboration are core to our identity at Proserv. We congratulate the other finalists, across all categories, and we very much look forward to the awards evening.”
Commenting on the upcoming awards, OEUK CEO David Whitehouse, added:
“We’ve had a fantastic response to our call for nominations with a 50% increase this year. These nominations highlight the breadth of talent in our exciting sector. There is some brilliant and innovative work ongoing, to provide energy security, to accelerate the energy transition, from companies large and small, up and down the UK.
“We look forward to celebrating our sector and to revealing the winners in November.”
OEUK received well over 100 nominations across only seven awards categories. The OEUK Awards 2023 will take place at the P&J Live in Aberdeen on Thursday, November 30th.
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In an exclusive video interview with Dubai based news platform Energy Connects, our CEO Davis Larssen and Intelligent Plant’s Founder Steve Aitken discuss their evolving relationship which has led to the innovation of cutting-edge data analytics and real-time monitoring solutions. In an engaging and informal conversation, Davis and Steve also explain how life during the COVID-19 pandemic actually played a positive role in allowing them the time and focus to build a strong partnership underpinned by mutual trust, respect and commitment.
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Following our CEO Davis Larssen’s appearance as a guest in an in-depth “Let’s talk Transition” video podcast earlier this year, courtesy of OGV Energy and its host Moray Melhuish, the discussion has formed the basis of a wide-ranging Q&A featured in the current OGV Renewables Quarterly, produced in association with RenewableUK. Davis references how the UK can become a global leader in floating wind, the potential generation of local content, our own ECG™ holistic cable monitoring system and points to the much-needed adoption of fresh methodologies around wind farm engineering and operation.
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