Hobbies: Family, climbing, reading, travelling, music
1. Favourite movie / book / song:
What a good question. I like the classics and love the modern. The classics that made the most lasting impression on me are plays like Aristofane's comedy “Lysistrata”, Sophokle's tradegy “Oedipus” and Shakespear's “The Tempest”. I also prefer the Norwegian Jon Fosse's plays over his books - “Nokon kjem til å komme” was an early favourite. With that being said I love reading page-turners like "The Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan and graphic novels like "Saga" and "The Preacher".
2 .What does your day-to-day look like at AGR?
All day – day-to-day – I`m trying to understand the subsurface.
Most of the time I look at colourful pictures of the subsurface. The pictures are representing different rock and fluid properties and are in large based on mathematics. The pictures are made using the few direct observations we have in wells and indirectly through pressure waves. I look at maps, cross-sections, plots and people talking about maps and data points.
3. What made you pick a career in Energy?
To me energy and geoscience are about the history of the Earth and I find it incredibly interesting how energy also affects the present course of world affairs.
4. Tell us a bit about your career development at AGR
To me career development is about building respect and acknowledgement, contributing to decision making. Working with a broad spectrum of customers and disciplines is a continuous maturation process.
5 .Can you tell us about something exciting you are working on right now?
Planning and drilling wells for a field development and trying to explain and build models of the subsurface.
6. What does the future look like in energy and oceans?
Unfortunately, my rock collection does not include a crystal ball. Energy is always needed, and the energy outlook is towards increased demand. Politics determine how the energy demand is met, and world politics are, to me, not possible to predict.
The increase in atmospheric CO2 levels and global temperature we are experiencing now is affecting human lives in a negative way. The Earth has experienced and lived through multiple mass extinction events - most plants and animals went extinct.