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A JUICY VISION Being backed-up by one billion DDK from the partners of Danish Underground Consortium gives Center for Oil and Gas – DTU considerable weight. Now the chal- lenge is to defne the work which is to turn the huge bag of money into valuable knowledge. When the new Center for Oil and Gas – DTU is running at full speed some 100 researchers will be trying to come up with ideas for increasing production in the Danish sector of the North Sea. Large resources of energy are still lying in the underground waiting to be recovered, so, natu- rally, the new institute is looked upon with considerable interest. “It is probably one of the largest, private, single amounts of money granted to any institute in the his- tory of Denmark. That gives us obligations and a very high degree of visibility. We are almost committed to creating something which could not have been created if the same amount of money and resources had been distributed during a span of years to several research environments. Consequently, we shall use this unique op- portunity to merge a number of different disciplines as it is extremely important for us to do our best to come up with new concepts. We would like to learn from other research centers, but we have not yet found a model suited to our needs,” states Bo Cerup-Simonsen, Director Center for Oil and Gas – DTU. He was picked for the job from his former position in Maersk as Head of Maritime Technology. There he was used to working in a strictly defned organization – now he is heading a somewhat different kind of business. “We shall face a challenge, and to be quite honest, at the moment I have no idea how to meet it. Right Bo Cerup-Simonsen is looking forward to exciting, new challenges. now we are working in three parallel directions: we have hiring researchers, we are considering what kind of research we are to start up, and we are defning targets, processes and organization. So there are still lots of loose ends. It is completely different to my former job, where we normally had some 150 projects running simultane- ously and a steam engine organization which was just thundering along. Both jobs are challenging and exciting in their different ways,” muses Cerup-Simonsen. IT IS A HUGE BAG OF AN EXCITING PLACE FOR INDUSTRY While the organogram is still being honed the level of MONEY, AND IT IS ambition is reaching for the sky, so for Cerup-Simonsen the challenge is now to turn the spectacular budget into REALLY A JUICY practical technology. “It is a huge bag of money, and it is really a juicy VISION, TOO vision, too. To give it some extra power we have an industry acutely interested in making things work in 62 / A JUICY VISION