This consolidation of the supply industry was crucial not only to make the extraction of oil viable but, by becoming Norway’s largest export industry (apart from export of petroleum), it has been one of the pillars of Norwegian economy. Innovation in offshore petroleum takes place in a complex interplay between oil companies, an increasingly more integrated group of global suppliers, and a large, often local, group of smaller sub-suppliers. In this scenario, the Norwegian oil sector needs to learn concepts, technologies and practices developed elsewhere.
However, in recent years In a context of intense pressure to reduce costs and innovate and of increasing protectionism aiming to capture segments of the offshore supply chain within national boundaries, makes a better understanding of the integration of Norwegian companies in the global value chain critical. Therefore, GLOBOIL will use extensive case studies and a survey to answer the following questions: How have Norwegian suppliers evolved their strategy and are governing their relationship with suppliers to continue moving up the global value chain? In what way does the participation in challenging projects abroad affect the industry's capabilities on the Norwegian continental shelf? Are there barriers in form of path dependency, technological standards or other forms of socio-economic structures that prevent or promote certain kinds of technologies? Is the Norwegian institutional setting that previously nurtured the industry still effective? When studying the offshore supply industry outside Norway, there will be a special focus on Brazil and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The Brazilian market is important both because of it size an its challenging technological character. The U.S GoMs is important because it also is the headquarter of many of the largest firms in the industry.
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2019: GlobOil and SIVAC at Norway Brazil weeks
In late 2018, researchers from TIK's oil & gas related projects GLOBOIL and SIVAC participated in the Norway Brazil Weeks.
Day 1: Networking event
Networking barbeque at the Residence of the Consul General of Norway in Rio de Janeiro, Sissel Hodne Steen, co-organised by the Consulate and Innovation Norway. We had the chance to meet the participants from Norwegian companies and institutions participating at the Norway Brazil Weeks conference. There were participants from the oil and gas industry and Norwegian Universities.
Day 2-3: The VI conference
The VI November conference as part of Norway Brazil Weeks was held at the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas in Rio de Janeiro.
This year was the 6th edition of the conference which aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners from Norway and Brazil to present and discuss their ongoing and potential bilateral research, innovation and educational projects. This year the focus was on how energy research can respond to the driving forces for transformation - digital, environmental and social.
Antonio Botelho, who was part of the SIVAC project and now also the GLOBOIL project, also had a presentation and exposed the Brazilian experience of the oil and gas industry in comparison to the Norwegian one.
There was a joint discussion during the Q&A session, as well as key note speeches from Johan Hustad (NTNU), Aly Brandenburg (Shell Brazil) and Ivan Oliveira (CBPF).
After parallel sessions on Exploration and Geosciences and Materials Technology with presentations from academics and practitioners, the day was concluded with a networking dinner in the Botafogo area.
Day 3 consisted of 4 parallel sessions with interesting presentations from university and industry actors: Digitalization and Automation, Subsea Field Development, Environment and Improved Oil Recovery and Flow Assurance.
Day 4: Workshop at the Brazilian innovation and research agency
TIK organised a Workshop at the Brazilian innovation and research agency – Financiadora de Inovação e Pesquisa (FINEP). The title of the workshop was “2018 Brazil-Norway O&G innovation research workshop". The workshop targeted Brazilian researchers/academics, managers, policy and government officers interested in management, economics and policy research results and agenda of petroleum industry development in Brazil in a global perspective.
The first session chaired by Prof. Paulo Bastos Tigre (Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) was titled “Innovation collaboration, suppliers and operators”. Taran Thune gave a presentation titled Supplier Industry and Value Creation - new research on innovation in the Norwegian petroleum industry and the role of suppliers and received comments from Dr Breno Medeiros, a specialist on Energy Resources and Industries at Deloitte. The joint discussion after the two presentations was moderated by Milton Costa Filho.
The second session (“Collaboration for Upgrading and Innovation: National into Global Value Chains”) was chaired by Alfredo Renault (Superintendente, Superintendência de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico, Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis ANP).
Antonio Botelho gave the presentation on «Boosting collaborative upgrading in the Brazilian Oil and Gas Industry towards Global Value Chain Enhancement” and Helge Ryggvik gave a presentation with the title “The Norwegian oil and gas supply industry in hard times: innovation in global supply chains”.
A joint discussion after the two presentations was moderated by Dr. Telmo Ghiorzi (Director & Coordinator, R&D Working Group, Associação Brasileira das Empresas de Serviços de Petróleo ABESpetro).
The two sessions were followed by a joint discussion moderated by Maurício Alves Syrio (Project Superintendent Innovation Area 2, FINEP) and Rune Andersen (Innovation Norway).
The workshop concluded with a constructive discussion on how the Brazilian oil and gas ecosystem could improve their innovation capabilities by putting in practice some of the lessons learned from the Norwegian oil experience.
In the afternoon of the same day, Taran took part in The Blue Industries & DeepSea Conservation Round-Table organised as part of the VI November Conference.
Taran talked about diversification of the Norwegian petroleum supply firms from oil industry to new markets.
2018: New GlobOil PhD candidates
The GlobOil team is happy to welcome two new PhD candidates to the team: Eili Skrivervik and Tèrcio Pinho Filho.
Eili Skrivervik
Eili Skrivervik finished her master degree at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture in 2017 with a thesis titled “Norwegian food waste policies: a valuation study”. She has experience as an analyst and researcher in the private sector and in the Norwegian startup scene, and has worked at TIK since 2017 as a research assistant, working mainly on the SusValueWaste project (Sustainable path creation for innovative value chains for organic waste products).
"The offshore petroleum sector is a field with a high level of innovation and high density of smart individuals which is why I was attracted to this project. I think innovation is such an interesting fields to study and think it will be really interesting to look at the oil sector from this perspective."
- Eili Skrivervik
Tèrcio Pinho Filho
Tèrcio Pinho Filho's research interests are in Supply Chain Management, Governance Patterns and Manufacturing Upgrade. He holds a Master degree in Political Sociology from IUPERJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
"Participating in this project is great because it encompasses my prior research interests, and also gives me the opportunity to improve my knowledge in innovation studies, enrich my theoretical background and have more analytical tools to do my research in convergence with the project's framework."
- Tèrcio Pinho Filho
2018: GlobOil kick-off in Chicago
On September 24-25th 2018, the GlobOil kick-off meeting was held at the University of Chicago.
The GlobOil consortium gathered at the University of Chicago to mark the official start-up of the project, exchange ideas and experiences, and make a plan for how the project work will be conducted over the next 4 years.
GlobOil studies how Norwegian upstream oil and gas suppliers are adapting their production strategy, supply chains and innovative capabilities to the demands of recent development in global manufacturing. It is coordinated by the TIK Centre at the University of Oslo (Norway), and the rest of the consortium is made up by NIBR at OsloMet (Norway), University of Chicago (USA), and Universidade Candido Mendes (Brazil).
Gary Herrigel hosted the kick-off meeting at the campus of the University of Chicago, which is among the highest ranked universities in the world. In addition to a very productive meeting, the team enjoyed a tour of the campus and of downtown Chicago.
Workshop programme
Chair: Professor Olav Wicken
Day 1
- Introduction and meeting plan, by Helge Ryggvik and Olav Wicken
- Status in the industry and the three markets in the study, by Helge Ryggvik - with some addition from Antonio Botelho and Tercio Pinho Filho on the Brazil market.
- Market structure, innovation, upgrading, continuous improvement and governance in oil and other relevant sectors, by Gary Herrigel.
- What we really say in the application and ways to conduct the work, by Olav Wicken
- Status from the survey in former SICAC/NIBR-project, by Yuri Kasahara and Antonio Botelho
- How to transfer data and knowledge from the Sivac-project at TIK. An idea for a study of the seismic-sub sector, an interesting relevant case?, by Jakoba Sraml Gonzalez
- The paper Upgrading Innovation in O&G Manufacturing Supply chain Firms in Brazil, and some ideas how to ”upgrade” the study fit in to Globoil’s need. By Antonio Botelho and Tercio Pinho Filho.
Day 2
- The budget, by Helge Ryggvik.
- The rest of day 2: A schedule is presented based on experiences from day 1, and the team works on planning the project period.
List of participants
- Helge Ryggvik, TIK
- Olav Wicken, TIK
- Jakoba Sraml Gonzalez, TIK
- Tercio Pinho Filho, TIK
- Yuri Kasahara, NIBR OsloMet
- Gary Herrigel, University of Chicago
- Antonio Botelho, Universidade Candido Mendes
