Management

The team members have been creating, developing, growing, professionalizing and internationalizing businesses for up to 35 years as owners, top-level managers and board members.

Stig H. Christiansen (1968) – Chief Executive Officer 
Stig H. Christiansen holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce from University of Birmingham, England, and an MBA in International Business Economics from Aalborg University.

Prior to joining add energy group, Stig H. Christiansen held the position as Senior Vice President Finance in StatoilHydro ASA since the company was created on October 1st 2007. Before that he was Senior Vice President Finance in Statoil ASA since March 2005.

In his previous career Stig H. Christiansen spent about 10 years in oil service in respectively Aker a.s., Transocean ASA and Prosafe ASA, the last 5 years as Executive Vice President & CFO in Prosafe ASA.

He was awarded the Finance Director of the year in Norway in 2002.

Harald Justnæs (1963) – Chief Financial Officer
Harald Justnæs joined the add energy group as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in March 2009.

He holds a Bachelor with Honours degree in Business Administration from the Oslo Business School (Oslo Handelshøyskole/ Handelsakademiet) and has attended a Master of Management program at the Norwegian School of Management (BI).

Prior to joining add energy group Harald Justnæs held the position as Group Chief Accountant (Vice President) of SpareBank 1 SR-Bank.

Harald Justnæs has also been CFO of Figgjo AS, a Norwegian porcelain manufacturer, Group Chief Accountant (Vice President) of Gjensidige Forsikring and CFO of Gjensidige Marine & Energy Insurance AS, a marine and energy insurance subsidiary of Gjensidige Forsikring.

In total, Harald Justnæs has more than 17 years of accounting and finance experience.

Kjell Terje Roverud (1967) –  Vice President Marketing & Innovation
Kjell Terje Roverud has been Managing Director of add upstream as since 2004. As from September 2009, he became responsible for Corp. Marketing & Innovation  in add energy group as, and  is from June 2010 also holding the position as Managing Director in add Latent ltd.

He has more than 20 years of experience within operation and management in the rig and oil industry. He has  previous experience as Director of Marketing & Sales and Department Manager and has been responsible for business development, integration and operation. He has been actively involved in starting new businesses and integrating acquired companies. Kjell Terje Roverud finished his Business and Administration studies in 1989.

Terje Løkke-Sørensen (1959) – Vice President Consulting
Terje  Løkke-Sørensen has long and diverse experience in planning and operational support in offshore drilling, completion, wireline and workover activities, including HPHT, horizontal, exploration and production wells, from mobile and fixed installations, as well asoperations in environmentally sensitive areas. He founded Vestdrill in 1992, and until recently has provided his services to a wide range of operators and service companies, in Norway and internationally.  

Through participation in the development of the Norwegian petroleum regulations and NORSOK standards relating to drilling and well activities and management systems, Terje has acquired in-depth knowledge which is extremely useful in setting up operational drilling organizations for new operators in Norway and in managing projects that require multi-skilled personnel. He has authored Well Control and Well Integrity Manuals for various operators and has given extensive training in use of the principles therein.

Terje holds an M.Sc. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.

Geir Husdal (1945) –  Vice President Energy & Environment
Geir Husdal co-founded add novatech as in 1986 and has developed the company into a leading provider of consultancy services and management support tools within emission and discharge control in the offshore oil and gas industry. From 1972 to 1976, he worked with Kvaerner Engineering as a process engineer and project manager on several detailed engineering projects for oil and gas installations. From 1976 to 1986 he was the technical manager for Kvaerner Engineering’s Stavanger office, developing the office from scratch to a well recognized multidiscipline engineering, office with more than 150 engineers and designers. Geir Husdal holds an M.Sc. in chemical engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Ole B. Rygg (1960) – Vice President Drilling & Production
Ole B. Rygg co-founded add wellflow as in 1991 and has built the company into being one of the most respected specialist companies within well control and dynamic simulations. He has  a Master’s Degree in fluid mechanics and a PhD from the mathematical department at the University of Oslo.

Since 1988, he has been involved in research, development and application of multiphase flow modeling and has had a key role in development of the state-of- the art multi-phase pipeline code OLGA. As part of this research initiative, he has also developed the first fully transient multiphase simulator for well bore flow.

His technical competence includes all aspects of pipeline flow assurance, transient well applications and well control. Ole has presented numerous papers on fluid mechanics, multi-phase flow and blowout control engineering at international conferences and in respected journals. Through his work for add wellflow, he has on-site experience from a number of large blowout projects world-wide, acting as an advisor to several oil companies.

Gunnar Lied (1943)  - HSE & Q Leader
Gunnar Lied has been employed as Senior Competence Advisor in add upstream since 1997. He has more than 20 years experience as manager and senior advisor within training and competence development; technical disciplines. He has furthermore 15 years experience within marine disciplines as Naval Officer, instructor, deputy manager and holds the grade of  Commander.

Gunnar Lied holds a bachelor degree from the Naval Academy (and Candidate Magistrii in Statistical methods in Mine Countermeasures Warfare).