33 years’ experience in NCS subsea field developments. Worked mainly with pipeline, flexible and riser covering engineering, fabrication, installation, and tie-ins.

Torgeir Helland holds the position as department manager for Rigid Pipelines in TechnipFMC in Norway. Torgeir has a MSc. In Marine Structures from the department on Marine Technology at NTNU and has been working with rigid pipelines in TechnipFMC for more than 15years, in all phases of EPCI projects. Torgeir has worked on several technology intensive projects with elements such as Residual Curvature, Direct Electrical Heating, Corrosion Resistant Alloys, Pipe in Pipes and latest Electrically Trace Heated Pipe in Pipe.

Antoine Marret graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France) and a Master of Sciences in Offshore and Ocean Technology at Cranfield University (UK) in 2008.

He started his carrier at Technip France as mechanical engineer and has been involved in several R&D projects, including the development of the Electrically Trace Heated (ETH) Pipe-in-Pipe technology. After a couple of years, he has occupied the functions of Lead SURF Studies and R&D Project Manager.

In 2017, Antoine Marret relocated to TechnipFMC Norway to work as Lead Engineer on the FENJA project, in charge of the qualification, industrialization and delivery of ETH packages.

Principal Engineer with the Pipeline Design discipline of Subsea7 in Stavanger. Graduated as MSc from The University of Western Australia, Department of Civil Engineering in 2012.

Ronan MICHEL has been with Alcatel Submarine Networks from 1989. He started in ASN submarine cable factory in Calais and has installed intercontinental internet submarine systems worldwide on offshore vessels. With a Master from Institut Mines-Telecom, his background is in electrical power, automation, telecom, and fibre optics.
From 2006, he started Alcatel Submarine Networks diversification in Oil & Gas. He initiated the bridging of ASN power and coms technologies to Equinor. He is currently Oil and Gas Product Line Manager, in particular for the DC/FO subsea control infrastructure.
Alcatel Submarine Network’s DC/FO technology together with Equinor ASA won the Underwater Technology Conference (Bergen) award in June 2022.

More than 20 years’ experience as consultant for the oil and gas industry related in particular to flow and process technology. Experience includes follow up of offshore operations, analysis, design verification, technology qualification, testing, failure investigations and risk assessments. For the past 10-year, work experience include support to the CCS market concerning development of standards, concept evaluations and technology qualification. Currently act as technology lead within DNV GL flow technology with specific responsibilities within process and flow assurance.

Dr. Erling Østby is currently a Senior Principal Specialist in the Structural Integrity Advisory Group at DNV, Høvik. He received his M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1994 and a Ph.D. from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2002. He has been with DNV since 2013. He has more than 25 years experience with projects concerning structural integrity and fracture issue, and has co-authored more than 100 papers on the topics in international journals and conference proceedings. Currently he is strongly involved in DNV’s activities looking into safe solutions for hydrogen and CCS pipeline transport.

Jan Fredrik Helgaker is a Senior Engineer in the Pipeline Operations section at DNV, Høvik. He has an M.Sc in technical physics (2010) and a PhD in Fluid Mechanics (2013), both from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has been with DNV since 2013, working as a Flow Assurance Engineer. He is currently the project manager for the H2Pipe JIP, developing standards for offshore hydrogen pipelines.

Since 2022 department manager for subsea, SURF and pipelines in Reinertsen New Energy. Stig has a Msc. in physical metallurgy from NTNU and more than 20 years working experience as materials engineer and later principal engineer for oil and gas projects both topside and subsea/SURF. Broad experience within materials engineering through larger EPCI projects, client representative for onshore and offshore construction. Has contributed to development of carbon capture and hydrogen production technology from 2014 and has also contributed to NORSOK material standards.

Tone Dale joined DNV’s Risers, umbilicals and cables team based in Oslo, Norway in 2020. She received her MSc in Marine Technology from NTNU, specialized within structures and hydrodynamics. She is managing DNV’s global service development project for Offshore Power Cables and has been active in national and international power cable and umbilical projects. Responsibilities include project management, technical analysis of dynamic structures (global, local, fatigue), risk assessments, inspection of manufacturing and testing and integrity management.

Pål Are Eikrem is a part of DNV’s Risers, umbilicals and cables team based in Oslo, Norway. He has a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from NTNU.
He has 15 years of experience within the offshore and maritime industry, where he has mainly worked with riser technologies, from research and development to project execution.
Today he is power cable lead in DNV’s JIP - Floating Substations.

Kristine Senderud joined the Aker Solutions SURF team with base in Trondheim in 2018 after she received her MSc in Marine Technology from NTNU with specialization in marine structures. She has mainly worked with technical analyses of rigid and flexible flowlines from feasibility to detail design and follow-on phase. She also has experience with structural analyses. Lately been working with pipe-in-pipe design and expanding knowledge on transport of CO2 and hydrogen in pipelines.

Odd Reidar has 25 years of experience from the offshore pipeline industry. After graduating in 1997 with a Master’s Degree in Marine & Underwater Technology from the Norwegian University of Technical and Science (NTNU) in Trondheim, he worked 8 years with DSND Subsea & Subsea7 as project engineer/project engineering manager on a wide range of subsea pipeline and intervention project.

Since 2005 he has been the Engineering Manager and Technical Manager (from 2015) for the Pipeline & Well Support department of IKM Testing AS. In these positions he has been responsible for building and developing technical competence, new equipment and field services for pipeline pigging and subsea pre-commissioning/commissioning/decommissioning in general.

Odd Reidar also holds a position as Senior Advisor the IKM Group, where he supports and assists other departments and sister companies with engineering, technical solutions and execution of subsea, drilling and well operations.

Based in Stavanger, Norway and working with the BM-C-33 Development team since 2020. Lead responsible for the Pipeline Pre-commissioning of both SURF and Gas Export Pipeline scopes from Concept Selection through to Detailed Engineering.

John holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh and has worked within the offshore sector for more than 16 years. His background is focused in the Pre-commissioning discipline having worked for Service Contractors, Installation Contractors and Operator on Deepwater Developments from North Sea to West Africa, Egypt, GoM and Brazil.

PhD in Naval Architecture and military education in Electronics. Practical seagoing experience and management skills from both the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Norwegian Oil and Gas industry. Aims for a management career in which my technical background can be an asset.

Specialties: Marine operations - getting the job done.

Engineering Specialist in the Pipeline Design discipline of Subsea7 in Stavanger. 19 years of experience with pipeline in-place design and related subjects. Graduated as MSc from NTNU, Institute of Marine Technology in 2003.

Dr. Venkatapathi Tharigopula is Portfolio Manager for Trunklines in Equinor, Norway. With over 20 years in offshore energy industry, Venkat has experience in field development and engineering management of Subsea developments. Experience in working with pipeline design, pipeline construction, pipeline structures and tie-in related issues. Currently, focusing on scaling up CO2 transport and storage projects, especially related to hydrogen reforming with CCS.
Prior to joining Equinor, Venkat worked for Det Norske Veritas (DNV). He is graduated in Applied Mechanics from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has doctorate degree in Structural mechanics from Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Graduate (MSc) engineer from the Norwegian Technical University (NTH) in 1961. Following military service and a short period as research assistant at NTH, employed (from 1964) as Project engineer in Norsk Hydro, including a 2 year secondment from the Oil division, to serve as Project Manager for a national “Deep Water Pipeline”- project, before entering oil and gas operations in 1974, serving as Technical Manager and later as Managing Director of the Norpipe companies in Norway and the UK.

Joined Statoil as Operations Manager of Statpipe in 1983. During my further career with Statoil, held several other key positions; as Resident Manager of Statoil Belgium, as Project Manager in the Troll Development Project (seconded to Shell), as Chief Engineer within Statoil’s Gas Production and Transport Division and finally as Senior Project Manager in Statoil International Gas Business Development, before retirement at the end of 2001.

From 2002 until 2019 worked as independent consultant under Kjell Traa Consulting, offering services within project development, environmental protection, lecturing and censoring.
In the period 2013 to 2019 also partner and Chairman of Eureka Energy Partners. Now retired but still member of Seniortanken

Vegard Longva holds MSc and PhD degrees within Marine Structures from the Department of Marine Technology at NTNU. Vegard started to work as a Research Scientist at SINTEF Ocean in 2016. His position at SINTEF involves software development, project management, and numerical analysis of pipelines, risers, and power cables. Vegard is the product responsible for the SIMLA software which is a program for static and dynamic analysis of subsea pipelines. Vegard has the last 10 years been involved in several research projects on numerical simulation of design loads for subsea pipelines exposed to trawl gear pull-over interaction.

Rasmus Haneferd has worked in Subsea 7 since 2004. Career has progressed from graduate engineer to project manager. He holds a master’s in marine technology from NTNU and EMBA from UIS. Lately he has worked on the Snorre Expansion Project that included three bundles and now the Krafla Project that is planning for two actively heated subsea bundles.

Knut Tørnes holds a degree from Glasgow University in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering. He has over thirty years of oil and gas engineering experience with the majority involved in the design of offshore pipelines and subsea production facilities. This has included projects in the Norwegian and UK sector of the North Sea, Australia and some experiences from design projects in the Far East. He is presently holding the position as Principal Pipeline Engineer/Pipeline Technical Authority at Wood’s offices in Stavanger and Aberdeen.

Odd Martin has a M.Sc. in Marine Technology from NTNU, specializing in Marine Structures.
Since graduating in 2012, he has been working in IKM Ocean Design with the design of rigid and flexible pipelines/risers, umbilicals and cables in all design phases.
Involved in many technical development projects in parallel to other projects, particularly within the residual curvature method,
detailed trawl pull-over simulations, probabilistic approaches and processing & visualization of large data wrt risk to subsea infrastructure.
Odd Martin currently holds the position as Area Manager Data, Technology and Analysis in IKM Ocean Design.

Jean is a graduated mechanical design engineer, he started working with pipelines soon after graduating in 2011. He has experience from working both within and outside the energy systems business areas.
Jean is working as senior engineer in the pipeline technology section in Oslo since he joined DNV in 2019. He is pre-commissioning lead in charge of the recommended practice DNV-RP-F115 and has more recently been focusing on pressure protection questions from the industry.

Håvar joined Equinor in 2002 and has been working in R&D and subsea projects worldwide. Currently, in the position of specialist in pipeline engineering heading several research projects spanning from structural design to material design. Håvar has an MSc and PhD degree in the field Structural engineering, both obtained at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Ole Heggdal, is Chief Eng in Aker Solutions and have worked in Oil and Gas Industry in 38 years. He has a master in mechanical eng. from NTNU. He has broad experience form subsea systems, umbilical and flowline heating. Since 1992 Ole Heggdal have been involved in Umbilical Products and since 2006 been working in the Technology Management Group in Aker Solutions with worldwide responsibility of the Flowline heating and DEH products.

In my recent working career, I have designed large onshore and offshore energy infrastructure, advised authorities and companies on the transitional path to a sustainable energy future and performed various techno-economic studies, including CAPEX, OPEX and ABEX estimates.

Currently, I am working for Energinet on the Baltic Pipe Project, which includes technical project responsible for the 105 km Baltic Pipe offshore pipeline construction and installation, landfall construction works as well as commissioning. The Baltic Pipe project connects the Norwegian gas grid with the Danish and Polish transmission systems via the EPII pipeline in the North Sea. Responsible for detailed design, procurement of line pipes, construction and installation works as well as commissioning activities. This includes developing ITT material and managing the technical part of the tendering process to secure the settlement of contracts with main contractors (Allseas and DeepOcean). Managing the engineering project team as well as internal and external stakeholders, including authorities and permitting processes to ensure high quality deliverables on time. Construction activities have taken place in 2021 and commissioning and first gas in 2022.

Education:

2011 – 2013 M.Sc. in Civil Works and Marine Structures
Technical University of Denmark, DTU, Copenhagen

2007 – 2011 B.Sc. in Civil and Structural Engineering
Technical University of Denmark, DTU, Copenhagen

Philippe Maincon is a senior research scientist at SINTEF Ocean, in Trondheim. He has worked at SINTEF Ocean on and off since 1992 with breaks for a 4 year PhD on probabilistic aspects of fatigue, 6 years teaching finite elements and structural dynamics at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and more recently, 8 years at SINTEF Industry, supporting material scientists with modelisation and numerical analysis.

His central interests are the development of numerical tools for engineers, and since 2012, the study of torsion developing when handling cables, umbilicals and flexible risers.

Leif is a graduated structural engineer, and he has been involved in numerous pipeline R&D projects since the Superb project in the early 1990’s and has put R&D into practical use by the many editions of the DNV pipeline standard. This has all the time been done in close cooperation with the industry.
Leif is working as vice president in the pipeline technology section in DNV in Norway and he has been responsible for DNV pipeline standards since the 1996 revision.

Erik Levold has a M.Sc. (siv.ing) from NTNU (NTH) from 1982 and a PhD (Dr. ing.) from NTNU (NTH) from 1990. Worked at Reinertsen Engineering from 1983 to 1986 and from 1990 to 1997. Joined Statoil Research Centre at Rotvoll in 1997 and been working at Statoil/Equinor since then. He has more than 35 year experience from the offshore and pipeline business and has been working on several development projects both at Reinertsen Engineering and at Statoil/Equinor. For the last 25 years, the main focus has been on R&D projects at Statoil/Equinor

Background as “Master of Science in Chemistry and Biotechnology at NTNU” (2009). Started working with Shawcor in 2010 as a quality control engineer. Have since worked through different roles within project management and sales functions. Currently involved on the technical side from sales to ongoing projects to R&D.

Total 33 years experience, 30 from the offshore industry including Company Management, Project Management,
Technology Management and Discipline Expertise Competency within Structural, Pipeline and Subsea Engineering.
3 years experience from onshore industry including management of product and production development.