Oil and gas fields in nOrwayindustrial heritage plan

Harald Tønnesen(b 1947) is curator of the Norwegian Petroleum Museum. With an engineering degree from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he has broad experience in the petroleum industry. He began his career at Robertson Radio Elektro before moving to Rogaland Research, and was head of research at Esso Norge AS before joining the museum.

Gunleiv Hadland(b 1971) is a researcher at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum. He has an MA, majoring in history, from the University of Bergen and wrote his thesis on hydropower development and nature conser-vation. He has earlier worked on projects for the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) and others.

Oil and gas fields in nOrway industrial heritage plan

This book is a work of reference which provides an easily understandable

survey of all the areas, fields and installations on the Norwegian continental

shelf. It also describes developments in these waters since the 1960s,

including why Norway was able to become an oil nation, the role of

government and the rapid technological progress made.

In addition, the book serves as an industrial heritage plan for the oil

and gas industry. This provides the basis for prioritising offshore installations

worth designating as national monuments and which should be documented.

The book will help to raise awareness of the oil industry as industrial heritage

and the management of these assets.

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Photo: Øyvind Hagen/Statoil

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Photo: Øyvind Hagen/Statoil

Acknowledgements

This book is a result of a project initiated by the Norwegian Petroleum Museum to develop an industrial heritage plan for the offshore petroleum industry in Norway. The project was sponsored by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate and the Norwegian Oil Industry Association.

Work on this plan has offered many professionally interesting challenges, and has involved a number of people and organisations. Without their collaboration, it would not have been possible to complete the project. That applies particularly to my colleague, Gunleiv Hadland, who has collected and processed most of the background material.

Big thanks also go to the steering and reference group which has helped to define the broad lines of this planning job, discuss important delimitations and quality-assure the text. They are Rolf Wiborg, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Gustav Rossnes, Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage, Maiken Ims, Norwegian Oil Industry Association, Finn E Krogh, Norwegian Petroleum Museum, Sveinung Sletten,

Petoro, Jorunn B Eia, BP Norge AS, Oddveig Haga, A/S Norske Shell, Finn Roar Aamodt, Statoil, Dag Bergslien, ExxonMobil, and Dag Olaf Ringe, Total E&P Norge.

Many contributors from various companies and organisations have been a great help and have contributed valuable suggestions. The most prominent of these are Jan A Tjemsland and Kristin Øye Gjerde, Norwegian Petroleum Museum, Ole Andreas Engen, University of Stavanger, Stig Kvendseth and Elsa Dørr Skinstad, ConocoPhillips, Andreas Middelthon, Talisman Energy, Lars Olaf Eide and Kjell Varlo Larsen, Gassco, Åshild Finnestad, Iris, Jon Harald Kaspersen, Sintef, and Anders Nesheim, Baker Hughes.

Harald TønnesenProject managerNorwegian Petroleum Museum