A completely fresh report from DNV GL shows that the Norwegian oil and gassbransje see a renewable future.
the Whole 61 per cent of the 139 Norwegian petroleumsselskapene in the survey believe that investments in renewable energy will be a part of a long-term strategic shift.
– That many see the opportunities beyond the oil and gas industry indicates a paradigm shift, at the same time as it shows the sector’s ability to adapt and build a more diverse and sustainable energifremtid, says regionsjef for oil and gas in DNV GL, Kjell Eriksson.
To Teknisk Ukeblad ” says Eriksson that there are two reasons for this:
– It has been a few years where things have stopped because of the fall in the oil price. This has meant that projects have stopped. Suppliers have been forced to reduce costs. Then think about the most: What shall we live by?
– A strong change
in Parallel with this, there is a greater public debate and increased awareness around climate change and CO2 emissions and how the world will look like going forward. Right now these two aspects worked in parallel and reinforced each other, ” says Eriksson.
He adds:
” We knew climate change in 2013 as well, but when the activity level was much higher. It was a much harder decision to take, we are now going to diversify the company. With happy customers, a good economy and happy employees, it is more difficult, he says.
Kjell Eriksson, regionsjef in the DNV GL oil & gas Norway. Photos: DNV GL
Eriksson says that it is important to keep the tongue straight in the mouth when the results from the survey they’ve done has come forward. Specifically, it involves the concept of “long-term”:
– Many is enough to agree that there are no hydrocarbons in the future if you think long-term-long-term. But if you ask me whether there’s hydrocarbons in 2030? It is totally secure. 2040? Yes. 2050? Probably. We’re talking about an industry, which in any case should live in 20-30-40 years. For some this is the long-term. For others, it is not long-term.
the Survey shows, moreover, that approximately 60 per cent of Norwegian oil and gas companies see gas as a very important part of the future.
– What we see is a strong change in awareness around sustainability and energy efficiency. So is the difference from company to company about what is the best way to do this. Shell is betting a lot on gas. Statoil is focusing on offshore wind. Bet on sunshine, ” he says.
– to say that everyone is betting on renewable energy is not correct to say. But it is quite obvious that all companies are very concerned about their environmental footprint.
– More capture
In the report it is also revealed that 25 per cent of the Norwegian respondents state that their business is going to invest in renewable energy already in the year.
Diversification, consolidation and efficiency measures will typify 2017 in the oil and gas industry. The survey shows signs of profound changes. Almost half – 46 percent – of the Norwegian actors report that they will invest more in opportunities outside the oil and gas industry, says in a news release from DNV GL.
the Report, DNV GL now has launched “the Short-Term Agility, Long Term Resilience” – is the seventh annual report on the prospects for the oil and gas industry DNV GL.
One of the key findings in the report is that the Norwegian oljebransje is now very much more concerned about capturing. In last year’s report was Norway, well below the global level on this. This year Norway is situated far above.
– the Digitization is by definition electric. The revolution we are going to see there, with how the fabrication is automated and with 3D-printing in the large industrial scale makes that the whole community is going to change away from an oil – and gassdrevet situation. The agreement arrived at in Paris is also a sign that you must start to think differently.
– Man is well forced?
– Yes. Otherwise, when not one of these goals. Today, we are neither on the road against two or one and a half degree. But we look at the strategic level in the companies that we are working with to understand how the world will change and how to position themselves. Any bets on wind, some on the sol, the other on the gas. In a togradersverden there will also be a lot of oil and gas, ” says anders Eriksson.
– Have to find four Saudi Arabia
He points out that the Norwegian oljebransje has been a change in the attitudes of digitization. He think simply it is that the industry has gone into a more advanced form of cost-cutting.
the oil Industry has been very clever to drive the cost down. Look at Johan Castberg, and the credit there. I think this means that phase 1 of the credit is made: The simple, where the concepts be simplified, and the suppliers are pushed.
– Now there is phase 2. It is much more demanding. Now, one must do things in a completely different way. You can’t build ships even easier. You can not push the suppliers even harder. When we believe that we must begin to work with the digitization, standardization and cooperation in a completely different way than previously, ” he says.
Eriksson further shows that if the Iea’s togradersscenario is added to reason, be the height that the oil and gas share in the energy mix equivalent to Saudi Arabia’s oil and gas resources, times four.
And these fields must be developed in a sustainable way, with a completely different oil than what one has been accustomed with for a couple-three years ago. This awareness now comes. Although fornybarveksten is exponential and very fast, so it won’t quickly enough. It needed oil and gas also. This is a balancing act on a high level, ” he says.
the Definition of a pump
He believes there are a number of digitaliseringsaspekt that will designate themselves as important to the future.
– Big data. To handle large amounts of data means that one can take the decisions you previously couldn’t take, because we see patterns that we before could not see. We will also see much more automation, an area is made that much already, for example through the automation of the drilling process.
another aspect he highlights is the cooperation between oil companies and leverandørselskap.
If the information between the operator and the supplier goes digital, so that it ceases to flow papers back and forth, one can interact much more effectively. But then one must agree on common formats. If everyone has the same definition of a pump makes it easier to collaborate, ” he says.
But according to the report, it is not only bliss on digitaliseringsfronten. There are in fact a number of barriers that complicate the implementation. Eriksson draws up to five key barriers.
- Old-fashioned culture and organization
- Lack of funds
- Lack of awareness at senior management level,
- Kunnskapsmangel
- Bureaucratic and risikoavers organization as a hindrance to digitization
He thinks there are several things that can be done to change this. Among other things, have the universities a large role to play.
– educational Institutions must play a much more active role. It contributed everything for the few who can take the industry into a digital future. I also think that organizations need to learn from those younger who have digital expertise.
See on a smartphone: It has existed in the 480 weeks. In an energy system is not a very long time. Imagine the change it has meant for you as a person and imagine what the same could be done for the oil and gas industry in the course of the 480 weeks.
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