Page 10 - Danish Offshore Industry 2019

Denmark used to be – but is no more – a net exporter cession holders as well as the industrial capacity available
of oil, but the emerging on the stage of new powerful onshore.
players bringing with them new ideas and innovative
ways of approaching their acquired assets or their new THE HUMAN FACTOR
partners could return the Danish state to a position of a What is left is the human factor. Organizations previously
net exporter of oil. And according to prudent prognoses run by Danish managements have changed hands. New
Denmark will continue to be a net exporter of natural nationalities often bring with them new ways of doing
gas till at least after 2035. things. However, when Danish offshore started up in the
1980s few of the hands involved in the constructions and
This combined with more and more windfarms popping hookups of Gorm and Tyra had their minds turned on
up in the North Sea and elsewhere could reduce the to the "offshore mode", but within a few years Esbjerg
domestic need for oil and once more result in a desired more or less turned into a mental affiliate of Houston,
independence of importing energy from abroad. And if so even if last year seemed confusing and difficult to pin
the offshore wind power companies will go on utilizing down, there is all reason to look upon the tumultuous
the enormous experience and professional skill accumu- last year as a challenging opportunity to everybody
lated through many years of working in the sometimes wanting to be involved in the new – perhaps more color-
tricky waters of the North Sea the two types of industry ful – future waiting ahead of us.
could support each other to the benefit of the new con-

Tyra East.
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8 / WHAT ON EARTH HAPPENED IN THE DANISH SECTOR?