DIVISION OIL & GAS

INTEGRATED OPERATIONS (IO)

Integrated Operations involve improving the links between skilled personnel, work processes and technology through the active use of audio, video, data and information systems for communication, remote monitoring and, eventually, remote control between field and office. The main objective of IO is to create an environment for better, faster decisions, which will boost drilling and well efficiency as well as oil and gas production. Studies on the Norwegian Continental Shelf indicate that the active use of IO may result in higher production worth tens of billion of NOK.

Integrated Operations entail far-reaching integration of the organisations that work offshore and onshore. Oil and gas fields can be operated and controlled to a greater extent from onshore, and it is possible to envisage entirely new cooperative relationships within the oil companies and between the vendors and the oil companies. This will have far-reaching consequences for how tomorrow's oil and gas fields will be operated.

For the Oil and Gas Division, Integrated Operations has been a target area in 2007, and it will be an important growth area for the division in future. The division is focusing on further development as a leading international supplier of IO technology, products and services for offshore and onshore operations alike. In January 2007, Kongsberg Maritime acquired the technology enterprise Sense Intellifield, now Kongsberg Intellifield. Kongsberg Intellifield already had most of its customers in the international arena, with activities in the US, Mexico, Brazil, Brunei, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, among others. Kongsberg Intellifield has developed and delivers more leading commercial IO products, e.g. SiteCom, Discovery Portal, and ICE, strengthening KONGSBERG's position within this growth area. The Oil & Gas Division is also a leader in consultancy and the design of intelligent IO systems, and the development of advanced three-dimensional applications for decision-support through the subsidiary Kongsberg SIM. IO is expected to be a strategically important growth area in oil and gas globally in future, with focus on operator companies and large-scale service companies in upstream operations such as drilling and production. The company places substantial emphasis on IO as a tool in all the most important oil and gas regions.

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