Page 18 - Danish Offshore Industry 2015

COMBINING UNIQUE QUALITIES Sharing of know-how between various sectors and disciplines is part of the agenda of Offshoreenergy.dk, staking on a stronger cooperation between Danish companies being the way ahead. As knowledge and innovation is the very base of exist- ence for Offshoreenergy.dk it is no wonder that Director Oil & Gas Johannes Kromann Bie will prefer to nourish and promote just the companies in the Danish offshore industry which stick out by having quite unique qualities. “We would like to contribute to a larger part of the companies of the branch being unique, for that is what we can sell abroad. We have to be unique, effcient and innovative to be successful and here we can offer to the companies to help themselves. It is a question of sharing our know-how in an open and honest atmosphere as Johannes Kromann Bie would like to challenge the Danish offshore industry. Danish companies are too small to manage on their own in the tough international market. To use an expression from another branch: we shall compete to get a slice they have to reduce their costs by 40% before 2020,” of the small layer cake at home, while we make money states Mr. Bie, who is the man behind a catalogue of on the big one abroad. And it is one of our scopes to possible projects where the Danish offshore industry may support that attitude,” tells Johannes Kromann Bie, who share know-how with other sectors. would like to go on merging oil & gas closer to the wind “I would say that it is not the only place where we energy industry in the two sectors’ hunt for synergies. can challenge the industry to act in a cheaper way, and I “In fact it is indifferent whether we are to service a believe much is to be gained by standardizing some solu- wind turbine or a production platform, it is just a small tions and processes. If we can make processes more simple, example of areas where we may fnd synergy. Major and still meet the same standard requirements for quality, parts of the infrastructure in the North Sea are more we shall go far, and I am not saying this just in order to than 40 years old, so each year we spend 8.4 billion DKK provoke more thinking. Things change all the time, and it on operation and maintenance. That might be an excel- is no good to be scared of thinking in new ways.” ■ lent area for saving money. Even if optimizing operation is not very sexy it is an area where both industries have mutual interests. Wind energy has already started up as FACTS: I WOULD SAY THAT / THE SCOPE OF OFFSHOREENERGY.DK IS TO CREATE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE DANISH OFF- IT IS NOT THE ONLY PLACE WHERE WE CAN SHORE INDUSTRY. / MORE THAN 270 COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS CHALLENGE THE ARE MEMBERS OF OFFSHOREENERGY.DK. INDUSTRY TO ACT IN A / ITS TWO MAIN AREAS OF INTEREST ARE INTERNA- CHEAPER WAY TIONALIZATION AND COST REDUCTION. 18 / COMBINING UNIQUE QUALITIES