VP Reservoir Management Erik Lorange tells about his long career at AGR’s subsurface team.
We owe our success to our talented, committed employees who consistently deliver high-quality outcomes for our clients by combining deep technical expertise with a commercial perspective.
Meet Erik, who is celebrating his 25th anniversary with AGR this year. Erik is based at our Oslo office and shares the story of his career in AGR and the energy industry.
What are your daily tasks like?
Alongside our Reservoir Management team, I am involved in supporting AGR clients through subsurface consultancy, advisory for Annual Statements of Reserves and Resources, and carbon management support for CCS, across projects ranging from Brazil to the North Sea, and from Africa to Australia.
In my role, I collaborate with our highly technical team members which I find both rewarding and highly developmental, allowing me to strengthen my skills as a manager and for technical work in asset evaluation for fields under development and in production.
How have AGR facilitated career progression to have kept you at the company for such a long time?
The feeling of empowerment is certainly a vital factor which has kept me at AGR this long.
I have been working with consultancies for the better part of my career. I find the lean structure of our organisation, efficient decision making process fascinating as such structure generally leads to situations where one has to make decisions to best knowledge and experience the instant outcome.
At a dynamic company like ours, we have a good working environment because our management and clients trust us as experts to deliver our tasks. In essence, I believe this has led to a feeling of empowerment and a feeling of being part of our shared successes.
What did you do before joining AGR?
My career spans three decades and counting. I started in 1984 and have worked at various companies throughout the industry, holding several senior manager positions like Principal Geophysicist, Crude Oil Broker, Senior Geologist, Project Manager, Marketing Manager and Manager Exploration, before joining AGR. These were all rewarding roles, but overall I’ve stayed at AGR the longest.
How do AGR enable work-life balance?
Work-life balance is highly important to me. I enjoy the great Norwegian outdoors and spending as much of my spare time as possible, with my wife and family in contact with nature. I consider this essential to having a good life. Most importantly, I feel this is part of the culture at AGR and something we all share in common to a great degree. In my experience, as long as we plan our work well, AGR facilitate work-life balance, which I believe has led to a highly motivated, stable, qualified personnel over the years.