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LEADING OFF Offshore Renewables

Source: GIEK

Pernille

Østensjø,

Head of GIEK’s clean technologies team in Norway, too. will be chosen in front of other countries’ deliveries. That’s

However, while the Norwegian domestic offshore wind in- our ultimate goal,” Østensjø says.

dustry has yet to take off, GIEK is working hard on helping While the appetite for ?nancing the offshore wind sector

Norwegian businesses score more offshore wind work abroad. seems big, what is the situation with the traditional oil and

Offshore Engineer TV’s Greg Trauthwein virtually “sat gas markets?

down” with Pernille Østensjø, head of GIEK’s clean technolo- GIEK’s head of energy and industry head of energy and gies team, and Ivar Rekve, head of energy and industry, to industry Ivar Rekve sees a shift.

learn more about GIEK’s role in ?nancing the Dogger Bank, He says: “Of course we have a large portfolio within [the oil the ripple effect on Norwegian suppliers, their take on the and gas] sector, but what we’re seeing now is that the capital overall offshore industry, as well as on the growth of the off- in this sector is gone. There was no demand for new projects. shore wind industry, and GIEK’s plans for the future. And there were a lot of ships, a lot of equipment in the mar-

Østensjø explains that GIEK bases its participation on kets that is... Well, not with high demand. So we see the shift

Norwegian export contracts, meaning they’re promoting the in the industry, we see the shift in the projects, and we see use of Norwegian companies, such as Aibel and Offshore the shifting of capital towards renewable energy. And we are

Heavy Transport which have secured contracts to deliver really pleased to being able to support this shift, to be able to goods and install wind turbine foundations for the giant support the ?nancing of the Norwegian exporters and their

Dogger Bank project. contracts with the buyers abroad.” “Based upon the contracts that Dogger Bank signed up with But what about the offshore oil and gas industry’s future?

Aibel delivering the HVDC platforms and Offshore Heavy Will it ever return to where it was before? What role can Nor-

Transport, delivering services for transportation and instal- wegian companies play in ?oating wind? Where else in the lational foundations with the custom-built vessel Alfa Lift, world has GIEK invested, offshore wind-wise? Learn all that we participated. And we’re guaranteeing 300 million British and more in our full interview below.

pounds for these two projects,” Østensjø says.

And we would, Østensjø adds, like to follow our Norwe-

Watch the interview @ gian exporters into new markets, that be either in Asia or in https://www.youtube.com/ other European countries.

watch?v=zMqy9oRxJ6Q& feature=emb_logo “Our ultimate goal is of course that Norwegian deliveries 10 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM