About Us
Results oriented professionals with demonstrated, hands-on management experience from start-ups and multinational corporations. Sound understanding of oil & gas, fuel, large non-governmental organizations and renewable energy.
We are focusing on creating value for global stakeholders through the commercialization of a "game changing" technology which has the potential to create clean hydrogen and valorize non commercial gas reserves.
Board of Directors
Dr. Leonid Surguchev
Chairman & CEO
Leonid Surguchev is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, previously CEO of oil company LONS AS operating on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, Senior Vice President of International Research Institute of Stavanger, Research Director of SIBNEFT oil company, Rogaland Research. He has international work experience from Smedvig Technologies AS, PETEC AS, SONATRACH in Africa, Asia and America.
His scientific interests are within hydrogen technologies, exploration, reservoir engineering and modelling, EOR/IOR. Surguchev has Doctor of Science and PhD in reservoir engineering, multi-criterion and system analysis.
In 1995 Surguchev was awarded the best scientist of the year research prize of Rogaland Research in Norway. Authorship in more than 100 scientific papers and 15 monographs, an inventor with awards of a number of hydrogen generation and reservoir technologies patents.
Jacob Stolt-Nielsen
Mr. Jacob B. Stolt-Nielsen joined Stolt-Nielsen Limited 1987 and served in various positions in Oslo, Singapore, Greenwich, Connecticut, Houston, Texas and London. He was President and established the global Stolthaven tank terminal network, from 1992 until 2000. In 2000, he founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of SeaSupplier Ltd. until 2003 when he became Executive Vice President of Stolt-Nielsen Limited.
He has invested in and developed numerous smaller companies. In 2012 he founded, and serves as CEO of Norterminal AS (www.norterminal.no) .
He has been a Board member of Stolt-Nielsen Limited (www.stolt-nielsen.com) since 1995 and is also a board member of Stolt-Nielsen Holdings AS, SN Terminal AS, Bothel Holding AS, Hydrogen Source AS (www.hydrogen-source.com), New York Cruise Lines (www.nycl.com) Inc. and Biomed Clinic AS.
Mr. Stolt-Nielsen graduated from Babson College in 1987 with a BS degree in Finance and Entrepreneurial studies. He is a Norwegian citizen.
Dr. Kjetil Stuland
Kjetil M. Stuland has built the research institute (Teknova today incorporated into Norce) and advisor to Alcoa. He has started 3 investment companies and made values in commercialization’s of startups of more than USD 300 Mill. He has been Managing director of two industrial enterprises serving the Oil and Gas industries.
Kjetil M. Stuland was for 8 years at the top management team of Scana Industries, and with a key role in making the corporation listed at Oslo Stock Exchange. He was also chairman of Scana Industrier ASA, and nominated as Chairman of the Year on the Oslo Stock Exchange. For 8 years he was the CEO of Rogalandsforskning (today incorporated into Norce), and has been member of more than 40 different boards for both public and private owned organizations.
His educational background is in Science and Technology holding a Sivilingeniør (equivalent to a M.SC) title from The Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) with majors in Cybernetics, Applied Mathematics and Chemical Engineering. He holds a Doctor engineer (Equivalent to a PhD) in Aero and Gas Dynamics also from NTH, and with research leave and invitation to stay at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, USA. His training in management comes from PA Consultants in the area of strategies and management for changes in both Public and Private organizations.
Sverre Skogen
Sverre Skogen (born 1956) has more than 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.
He has been CEO at Aker Maritime/Aker Kværner 1997 – 2003, Executive Vice President at PGS Floating Production 2003 – 2005, CEO at AGR Group 2005 – 2012 and Executive Chairman/Chairman at Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA (now Aker BP ASA) 2013 – 2016, Chairman and CEO at Mime Petroleum, current position.
He has also Board and investment positions in various companies in the sector.
Senior Advisors
Dr. Kjetil Stuland
Senior Advisor Technology​
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Dr. Egil Bergsager
Senior Advisor Geology
Dr. Tor Inge Waag
Senior Advisor Technology
Secretary General Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences
Advisory Board
Knut Åm
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A former Senior Vice President and head of Exploration and Production of Phillips Petroleum. Previously he has held positions with the Geological Survey of Norway, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Statoil, and he has been adjunct professor of geophysics at the University of Bergen. He has also been Chairman of the board of the Norwegian Oil Industry Association, Christian Michelsen Research, Hitec ASA and President of the Norwegian Petroleum Society and the Norwegian Geological Council.
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Brage Johansen
Brage W. Johansen (b. 1971) has extensive experience from both billion dollar corporations and startups. In Statoil he was head of Hydrogen business, investigating and developing the hydrogen valuechain for both industrial and transport use. He was responsible for establishing Norways first hydrogen station and producing the hythane concept sportscar FYK. From 2009-2012 he was VP Strategy in International Research Institute of Stavanger. And from 2012 to 2017 he co-founded and built the Zaptec company from scratch into a full grown company delivering charging stations for electric cars.
Lars Johan Frigstad
Mr. Frigstad has a "MSc in Economics and Business Administration" from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), and Prince2 certification in Project Management from SKEMA. He has held financial and management positions both within the financial markets and industrial sectors, whereof 18 years of experiance from the geophysical and offshore industry from publicly listed seismic companies Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) and SCAN Geophysical from which the last 7 years he held the position as CEO (a listed company with a market cap of NOKb 2.5 involving a total staff of 300 people). He has held the position as CEO of MOORE Energy since 2009.
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Arno Berg
Arno Berg is a graduate engineer from the The Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), also holding an MBA. He is an owner and director of automotive and consumer electronics companies. Arno Berg is a board member of the National Gallery in Oslo, several real estate and commercial companies.
Carl Michael Smith
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Carl Michael Smith served as the U.S. Department of Energy's Assistant Secretary of Fossil Energy from 2002 to 2004. He has international experience with the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum and led U.S. fossil energy protocols in several countries. Previously, he was Oklahoma’s Secretary of Energy from 1995 to 2002 and president of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association in 1994. He also ran an independent oil and gas exploration company and served as Executive Director of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. He holds a BA and a law degree from the University of Oklahoma.