• Company

    Wintershall Norge
    At Wintershall Norge, we make things happen. We are one of the most successful exploration companies on the Norwegian and UK Continental Shelf and have ambitions to become one of the leading players in the industry. The NCS has become one of the core regions in Wintershall’s global portfolio and we are here to stay.

    Wintershall Norge has a unique advantage being a part of BASF. This gives us a strong financial backbone and the support to achieve our ambitious goals.

    We have achieved extraordinary exploration successes in recent years with for example the Maria, Cladhan and Catcher discoveries and recently the Skarfjell discovery, and are moving quickly to develop the reserves. We have a long-term approach and plan to invest up to two billion Euros in exploration and field development on the Norwegian and UK Continental Shelf by 2015.

  • Our Ambitions

    Ambitious goals
    Our goal is to develop Wintershall Norge into a leading oil & gas company in Norway and the UK known for its ability to create value and attract the best people in the industry. Our ambitions by 2015 are to:


    • Produce 50 000 boed from our portfolio in Norway and the UK
    • Maintain a strong development and exploration portfolio for further growth
    • Secure and maintain a 10 years reserve life
    • Operate own development projects
    • Have a strong in house expertise in exploration, drilling, field development, production operations and business development
    • Maintain a value driven organisation
    • Maintain a strong HSE record, according to Wintershall corporate targets
    • Be recognised as one of the leading new players on the NCS
  • Our goals are ambitious but we are uncompromising in our commitment to achieving these goals while maintaining our core values. To us that means being creative, open, responsible and entrepreneurial in everything we do.
    Core values

  • Wintershall History

    80 years’ success
    Wintershall is Germany's largest and international active crude oil and natural gas producer. The Wintershall Norge parent is a subsidiary of chemicals giant, BASF. For more than 80 years, Wintershall has produced oil and gas for the European market, exploring on four different continents.
    www.wintershall.com/en/company/history

Management

Bernd Schrimpf - Managing Director
Bernd Schrimpf Managing Director
Janne Lea - Head of HSEQ
Janne Lea Head of HSEQ
Ulrich Bollhauer - Head of Finance & Administration
Ulrich Bollhauer Head of Finance & Administration
Guy Oakes - Head of Exploration
Guy Oakes Head of Exploration
Eivind Torheim - Head of Production & Development
Eivind Torheim Head of Production & Development
Alv Bjørn Solheim - Head of Production Operations
Alv Bjørn Solheim Head of Production Operations
Nils Helge Sørgård - Head of Business Development
Nils Helge Sørgård Head of Business Development
Ellen Braune - Head of Drilling & Wells
Ellen Braune Head of Drilling & Wells
Tone Samuelsen - Head of HR
Tone Samuelsen Head of HR
Cecilie Tefre - Head of Procurement
Cecilie Tefre Head of Procurement
Hugo Dijkgraaf - Head of Maria Project
Hugo Dijkgraaf Head of Maria Project
Svein Ildgruben - Head of Communications and Government Affairs
Svein Ildgruben Head of Communications and Government Affairs

  • License Portfolio and Partnership


    Wintershall Norge holds around 50 licenses in the UK and on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. We are operator on around half of our licenses which stretch from the north of the UK up the whole length of the Norwegian coast. Over the past few years, we have been one of the most successful exploration companies in the region and we are now developing our own fields for production. We continue to explore our own assets and work closely with our partners to produce oil and gas throughout the whole area, from mature fields in the southern North Sea all the way to the Barents Sea in the Arctic.
    License Portfolio & Partnership