AGR Well Management Division in Norway Gets New Boss

AGR has appointed Tore Øian to lead the company’s well management business in Norway.

Øian has over 20 years experience in the oil and gas industry and has managed drilling projects for operators including Statoil and Det norske.

Svein Sollund, AGR’s chief executive, said: “We have been providing well management support to our clients in Norway for over ten years and have worked on various drilling projects ranging from the first time licensee, multi-client rig campaigns to development and production well delivery projects.

“Tore is hugely experienced and knows the company well both as a previous client of us and as part of AGR’s integrated well delivery team. His immediate priorities in the new role will be to use his decades of experience to further shape a nimble and competitive well management proposition on the Norwegian Continental Shelf combining our flexible contracting models and in-house access to technical skills and software tools covering the entire supply chain of upstream.”

Øian has a degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Stavanger and will be based in Stavanger.