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John Sørensen, Executive Director.
Photo: Rambøll

Hess wanting to sell its share, but calling off the idea indication of Ramboll adjusting itself to the changing
again. Wintershall and DEA have merged, and Noreco demands of today’s energy industry.
has bought Shell’s share of the Danish Underground
Consortium (DUC). Apart from Hess nothing is like it used “The take-over, naturally, will play its part, but we
to be, and we can feel that the end-users are changing, are involved, too, in a number of major, international
too. This may not necessarily mean that the situation is projects, and the wind power sector is busy, indeed, to
better or worse, but these are the cool facts clear to us,” some degree compensating for the decline in oil and gas.
states John Sørensen, Executive Director, Ramboll Energy, We have invested considerable sums in digitalizing our
who is heading one of the companies involved in the systems, too, and have been awarded major contracts
re-construction of the Tyra-field. Even if that provides for e.g. for Digital Twin services saving a lot on physical
a certain activity, the engineering company is prepared maintenance This has opened an interesting market in
for a new kind of future. Norway as we can reduce costs and make production
more sustainable – all in line with our strategy,” states
“In connection with Tyra some large contracts were John Sørensen, naturally hoping for more activity in the
awarded to companies in the Far East, and even if that North Sea, but still maintaining his realistic view of the
was a bit disappointing to us, we have to accept that this years to come.
is a fact. The re-construction of Tyra is most important,
and it gives us faith in the future of the Danish sector. “I do hope that the exploration well planned by Hess
Generally, we think that more focus will be placed on strikes something big, which will inspire other companies
gas. That is fully in line with our Government’s intention to switch to exploration mode, but that will probably
to secure the supplies and make us independent of East- require some political goodwill – a fact to be taken
ern deliveries of gas. Gas will play a more significant part seriously in high places. The extent of global exploration
in our sector even if the demand for oil will continue for is dropping, and in Denmark we have fallen far behind.
many years ahead. There is a potential for large projects That is why 2019 looks like a year when we should sta-
when looking at the fields Hejre and Solsort, a potential bilize at the present level regarding exploration, while
attractive to pursue” states John Sørensen, who overall is attention is more and more focusing on sustainability.
taking a broad view of the situation as he is the head of Denmark is the most sustainable producer of oil and
a division continuously getting involved in new types of gas, and we want to contribute to that. From a strategic
business within energy. perspective, our primary focus will be on gas in a time,
where most of our traditional services will see little
A YEAR OF STABILITY progress, however in the Danish sector we will see com-
At the end of last year Ramboll announced the acqui- panies offering various types of craftmanship getting
sition of the American engineering company, OBG, of contracts on Tyra,” John Sørensen concludes while look-
which a third of its 900 employees will be working in ing down at the harbour. The fog is still lying like a grey
Ramboll’s energy division and also adding considerable blanket, but a clear view of the future tells him where to
increase in the turn-over. And this is by far not the only focus.

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