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1 Offshore Center Danmark February 2013 ON/OFF A news magazine on offshore business in Denmark NEWS Offshore Energy Offshore Energy comes to successful completion Good ideas lead to success in offshore sector Offshore Academy to help young people train for jobs in offshore sector TV programme portrays development project Offshore Energy Offshore Energy attracts followers from more than 500 organisations Offshore sector assisted by soldiers Offshore sector helped to find its inner strength Companies provided with useful tools for moving into offshore sector

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3 Welcome Never before has an effort been made to strengthen employment in the offshore sector that has been as massive as that made through the development project Offshore Energy. For 3 years, more than 100 companies, organisations and other players have contributed to making the project a success and, with Offshore Center Danmark as responsible for the undertaking, a wide Director Peter Blach range of initiatives have been taken to create jobs and attract qualified staff and students to the sector. One of the objectives of Offshore Energy has been to create new jobs in the offshore sector. The number of jobs has risen from 13,500 to 19,000 today, which means the objective has, indeed, been achieved. It is far from certain that Offshore Energy has been directly involved in creating all the new jobs, but we should be pleased that the offshore sector is capable of generating new jobs and growth at a time when other industries are suffering stagnation. Another objective has been to strengthen the range of training courses related to the offshore sector and attract young people to the sector. This work will go on in the coming years in that there is still a need for many qualified employees and a need for making young people see opportunities in the offshore sector. The concluding conference on February 27 will mark the end of this ambitious project. 3 years of intensive work will finish, but the many initiatives, ideas and new collaborations will be carried on through new projects. New products have been created, constructive ideas have led to new concepts and ways of collaborating, and the sector has proven that it is possible to work together to achieve a common goal. The participants in Offshore Energy and everybody else who has followed the project deserve to be thanked greatly. Many people have put in a great and indispensible effort, and the team at Offshore Center Danmark are convinced that Offshore Energy has made a strong and lasting impression. Content: Offshore Energy Offshore Energy comes to successful completion The 3-year development project ends with a conference on February Good ideas lead to success in offshore sector A series of idea generation days have produced many suggestions for new products and solutions... 6 Offshore Academy to help young people train for jobs in offshore sector Permanent centre for career guidance and knowledge-sharing may be established TV programme portrays development project Offshore Energy The programme describes successful 3-year effort to enhance employment in the offshore sector Offshore Energy attracts followers from more than 500 organisations Great interest in following news from the project through electronic newsletter Offshore sector assisted by soldiers Soldiers who have returned home are to relieve personnel shortage in the oil and gas sector Offshore sector helped to find its inner strength A value chain analysis has been an important part of Offshore Energy Companies provided with useful tools for moving into offshore sector Offshore Energy put companies back on the school bench Safety Award to be presented on April 18 The prize will be awarded at the Task Force Zero conference Sub sea and industry robots a promising business area Offshore Center Danmark has initialized a development project with the ambition of strengthening the subwater knowledge cluster Offshore Center Danmark counting down for the oil and gas nettwork event OGIB The B2B event OGIB May attracts representatives from all parts of the oil and gas supply chain Offshore Center Danmark makes every effort to make Danish know-how visible The centre has several media that focus on the offshore sector s many competences Networkers will be busy in the spring Large influx to Offshore Center Danmark s regional networking groups Offshore Center Danmark moves to new location and makes name change A substantial effort is made to strengthen the centre and reflect development in the offshore sector Large influx of new Offshore Center Danmark members Offshore Center Danmark is attracting many new members not least from companies on the brink of entering the offshore sector Peter Blach Offshore Center Danmark This number of On Off News is focusing on the development project Offshore Energy The overall aim of the project Offshore Energy is to create renewed growth and employment in the offshore sector. Offshore Energy consists of 5 sub-projects and an overall project. These are the sub-projects: Offshore Supply, Substitution of Materials Offshore, Coordination of Offshore Training Programmes, Recruitment and Profiling, The Offshore Wind Sector - Research. The overall project is managed by Offshore Center Danmark and THE EUROPEAN UNION is supported by South Danish Growth Forum and the European Regional Development The European Social Fund. Fund Offshore Energy THE EUROPEAN UNION The European Regional Development Fund Investing in your future ON/OFF NEWS - February

4 Colophon ON/OFF News is the magazine with offshore related news for the Danish offshore industry. The target group is operators, service companies, suppliers, authorities and educational institutions within the oil and gas industry, the offshore wind industry and within the offshore related maritime industry as well as international partners of Offshore Center Danmark. ON/OFF News is published 10 times yearly. Offshore Energy comes to successful completion Publisher: Offshore Center Danmark Dokvej Esbjerg Denmark Web: news@offshorecenter.dk Phone: Director: Peter Blach pb@offshorecenter.dk Editor: Morten Holmager mh@offshorecenter.dk Editorial staff: Søren Dybdahl sd@offshorecenter.dk Graphical production: Jan C Design & Kommunikation Print: Chronografisk Isues: 3,000 Next issue: March 2013 ISSN X (print) ISSN (WEB) Articles and news: Please feel free to forward offshore related articles and personnel information to the editor, however responsibility cannot be taken for such material. Articles in ON/ OFF News are brought with copyright and may be quoted according to existing existing guidelines/laws. Articles and photos may not be published in other connections, without prior written consent. Subscribtion: Free subscription can be obtained at or by contacting Offshore Center Danmark. The 3-year development project ends with a conference on February 27 3 years of work involving more than 100 partners will be over when Offshore Energy is completed on February 27. A large number of results will be presented at the conference, and both the individual initiatives that have been taken and the project s overall goal of creating 7,000 jobs in the offshore sector by 2020 will be discussed. Managers of sub-projects, external experts and other invited speakers will go through analyses and initiatives at the conference and state whether they believe the projects have been successful and which initiatives they consider to be worthwhile to develop further. Marianne Thorlund Tølbøll, Offshore Center Danmark, has been overall responsible for Offshore Energy. She says: The offshore sector has grown from 13,500 employees in 2009 to 19,000 in 2012 and, even though it is hard to say how big a part of the growth that Offshore Energy can be credited with, there s reason to be pleased and proud. The offshore sector is doing really well and, if we ve somehow done our bit to push development in the right direction, I believe the project has been a success. She adds: The important thing now is that the initiatives that have been launched in connection with the project are taken further so they can continue on their own steam. And it s gratifying that several initiatives are being realised and that there s a dialogue with specific manufacturers that are to make the products that have been invented through Offshore Energy. Positive analysis In order to ascertain the value of Offshore Energy and the various initia- 4 ON/OFF NEWS - February 2013

5 Regional Council Chairman Carl Holst and Esbjerg s mayor Johnny Søtrup at the Offshore Energy kick-off 3 years ago. The project now ends at a point in history when the offshore sector is doing better than ever before. Programme for concluding conference February 27, 2013, EfB Konference, Esbjerg Sign-up no longer possible Registration, coffee and network Welcome to concluding conference, Director Peter Blach, Offshore Center Danmark Outcome of Offshore Energy and future perspectives, Director Mikael Tubæk, Maersk Oil Purchase & logistics Sub-project Offshore Supply, Michael Ahring Petersen, Business Kolding tives, the analysis firm LB Analyse has been asked to analyse and comment on the project in its entirety. The results from the analysis will be presented at the conference, but it has already been revealed that the overall assessment is very positive. LB Analyse states in its 41-page evaluation of Offshore Energy: I t can be ascertained that all implemented activities have been relevant in relation to the project objectives. Moreover, it can be ascertained that all sub-projects as well as the overall project have been implemented and that the quality of all projects has been high. This applies to project management and to the various activities that have been completed. Finally, it has been ascertained that the individual sub-projects have been established in a way that makes it possible to take the next steps. Thanks to everybody More than 100 companies, organsations, and educational establishments have been involved in Offshore Energy and, even though it has been a challenge to find common ground among so many participants, support has been overwhelming. This is one of the reasons that Offshore Energy has provided so many visible results. Marianne Thorlund Tølbøll says: A lot of ideas have been presented about how the offshore sector can develop in a positive way, and all kinds of ideas have been discussed. Not least has a great effort been done into research and development in connection with the project that has lead to many favourable initiatives. Offshore Energy has been a success not least because so many people have spent so much time to help the project. I m very grateful to all these people, and I d like to thank them a lot for their efforts Sub-project Substitution of Materials Offshore, Bente Nedergaard Christensen, Plast Center Danmark Sub-project Coordination of Offshore Energy Courses, Sigurd Bløndal, AMY Vest Break Sub-project Recruitment and Profiling, Tove Morell, Aalborg University Esbjerg Sub-project Offshore Wind Sector Research, Svend Ole Madsen, University of Southern Denmark External evaluation of the project, Stefan Brendstrup and Henrik Lodberg, LB Analyse Conclusion, Marianne Thorlund Tølbøll, Offshore Center Danmark Lunch ON/OFF NEWS - February

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7 Good ideas lead to success in offshore sector A series of idea generation days have produced many suggestions for new products and solutions Good ideas lead to success in the offshore sector. On the basis of this notion, a range of workshops have been organised over the 3 years in which the development project Offshore Energy has been running. The sole aim has been to generate ideas for new products, concepts and ways of collaborating. Especially the sub-project Substitution of Materials Offshore has made use of a string of workshops to gather producers and operators for them to enter into a dialogue. Operators and large suppliers have been asking for solutions to specific problems, while producers from, for instance, the plastic industry, have come up with suggestions for solutions that can make existing solutions lighter or cheaper. Project Manager Marianne Thorlund Tølbøll, Offshore Center Danmark, is overall responsible for Offshore Energy. She says: Idea generation workshops help launch a creative process where no ideas are considered bad. This brings about a good debate and makes people who are taking part think interesting thoughts. And it ensures that the Danish offshore sector preserves its brand as an efficient and innovative industry; these are the parameters that we use to compete internationally. Scores of ideas The most recent workshop was organised on November 28 last year, where 7 working groups transformed scores of loose ideas into 7 specific suggestions that will be further developed also after Offshore Energy has ended. The most concrete result of the various idea generation conferences have lead to the development of a multi-purpose cabin made of plastic. The cabinet has the significant advantage that it weighs much less than other similar solutions in steel or aluminium. Depending on the specific model, it will be used for a range of purposes from ordinary storage through to electric installations and many other purposes on offshore installations where the light construction is a great advantage. The multi-purpose cabinet is still only a prototype, and Bente Nedergaard Christensen from Plast Center Danmark hopes ON/OFF NEWS - February

8 it will be possible to put it into production in the near future. As a sub-project manager, Bente Nedergaard Christensen has been heading the development of the cabinet. She says: Many people have contributed to the development of this product, and a lot of work has been done to complete the prototype, so I m sure the result will be a very functional cabinet. Many types of ideas The various idea generation conferences have provided many new types of ideas with the common aim of making things efficient, reducing costs or in some other way strengthen the offshore sector. At the conference in November last year, Ole Brøndum from the organisation Veteran Cross Over described the way in which a good idea means that soldiers who have returned home from missions abroad now have the chance to find jobs in the offshore sector. The organisation represents Danish veterans and has initiated collaboration with the offshore sector about providing the soldiers with a brief training course after they have ended their military careers which, in turn, will remedy the shortage of labour in the offshore sector. All this means that Project Manager Marianne Thorlund Tølbøll is very pleased with the many different ideas that have been the result of Offshore Energy. She says: We ve seen earlier how these idea workshops have brought about ideas for specific products, new ways of collaborating and other very useful initiatives that can strengthen the offshore sector. So I m convinced that it s both productive and necessary to invite people to these kinds of informal events once in a while where everybody can come up with ideas and interesting thoughts. Bente Nedergaard Christensen from Plast Center Danmak has been heading the subproject Substitution of Materials Offshore that is responsible for the great amount of work done to develop a special multi-purpose cabinet for the offshore sector. 8 ON/OFF NEWS - February 2013

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10 Offshore Academy to help young people train for jobs in offshore sector Permanent centre for career guidance and knowledge-sharing may be established An effort to attract more young people to the offshore sector has been an important element of the development project Offshore Energy. 2 different subprojects have revolved around training and career opportunities, and a range of initiatives will now be followed up on also after Offshore Energy has ended. Marianne Thorlund Tølbøll from Offshore Center Danmark and project manager of Offshore Energy says: A great effort has been done to ensure a balance between companies expectations and the range of training courses that are available and to make visible the sector to job-seekers and people who are studying. The entire training structure has thus been strengthened after Offshore Energy has been running for 3 years. The range of courses has been strengthened and coordinated in collaboration with the sector, campaigns have been run to have more young people train themselves in the offshore sector, and various open house events and 24-hour camps have been organised for young people with a desire to become involved in technical matters or research. Finally, A 24-hour camp at Aalborg University Esbjerg about wave energy was the first camp that was organised; it illustrated what young people think is interesting and what may make them choose specific educations. an attempt will be made to attract finance for a permanent guidance centre where guidance on training and career opportunities can happen under one roof. Poul Viggo Fischer, Education Manager with AMU-Vest, is responsible for realising this aim. He explains: The idea is to gather the range of train- 10 ON/OFF NEWS - February 2013

11 ing courses in a kind of Offshore Academy, where we can help young people choose a relevant course and where we ll have the resources for doing research and facilitating knowledge-sharing in the field of education. Esbjerg Municipality is among the players that are considering supporting an Offshore Academy, and AMU-Vest and a range of partners are also going to work on developing the concept and attracting finance. 24-hour camps will be organised again Concurrently, Aalborg University Esbjerg has been looking at how people can be attracted to the courses in the energy field in order that the need for labour in the offshore sector can be met in future. Special 24-hour camps where young people have had the chance to try out what it would be like to be an offshore technician have proved very popular. These camps have been organised as the result of an idea that emerged in connection Offshore Energy, and Aalborg University Esbjerg expects to organise 24-hour camps also in future. The university is aiming for the new natural science recruitment offers from the project to become permanent. Tove Morell, Aalborg University Esbjerg, explains: The camp concept provides pupils with professional sparring from university researchers and company experts and makes it possible for groups of pupils to test their own suggestions for solutions for the great challenges we re facing today in the field of energy. The aim is to make young people interested in natural science, technique and educations in the field of energy. She is supported by one of the educational establishments that has had the pleasure of inviting a great deal of young people to a camp. Lars H. Andersen, principal of Esbjerg Technical College, says: It s been useful for our students to learn what it s like to go to university, and we ve seen the result of their efforts. When they re at a camp, they completely forget about breaks, leisure pursuits and jobs outside school and are eager to achieve a result within the agreed time frame, and that s what they ve done. After having taken part in a camp, they long to move on in their training. GREAT OPPORTUNITIES How to become an attractive supplier in the offshore industry There are great opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises in the offshore industry. Suppliers to the Danish offshore companies sell goods and services to the tune of DKK 15 billion. And employment is expected to grow by several thousand over the coming years. But it s not easy to get a foothold Bureau Veritas 59,000 employees are serving 400,000 clients in 140 countries. But with offices in Esbjerg, Kolding, Fredericia, and Copenhagen we are always close to the Danish companies operating in the offshore industry, says Peter Balleby, Manager at Bureau Veritas, Denmark. in this industry, says Peter Balleby, Manager at Bureau Veritas in Denmark, who has been helping small companies ready themselves for the industry s strict requirements. Requirements and qualifications Bureau Veritas is accredited to certify companies according to quality, environment, health, and safety standards that are relevant in the offshore industry. These formal requirements may seem overwhelming to a small company, so our focus is to help them identify what is necessary in order to become attractive suppliers to the big operators, says Peter Balleby. Strategic changes In some cases Bureau Veritas has also proposed strategic changes. For instance that a number of small companies work together to offer a more comprehensive package of competencies than they could do individually. Peter Balleby is convinced that the whole process is worthwhile for ambitious companies that want to develop. Once you are licensed to work in the Danish offshore industry, you re well on your way to new opportunities in the rest of the world. bureauveritas.com ON/OFF NEWS - February

12 TV programme portrays development project Offshore Energy The programme describes successful 3-year effort to enhance employment in the offshore sector 3 years of work to strengthen employment in the offshore sector and attract young people will now be portrayed in a TV programme that will have its premiere immediately after the project s concluding conference on February 27. Shootings began at the conference in November, and the final footage is planned to be shot during the concluding conference. The result will be a 25-minute programme that will be broadcast on the Danish TV channel DK4 in March. The programme is to be shown times in the spring and will also be available on DVD. TV hoast and producer Mick Østergaard from Best Media is preparing the programme for DK4. He says: We see this as an obvious opportunity to document the great effort that s being done on behalf of the offshore sector through a project such as Offshore Energy. The sources that we ve talked to have very different approaches to the project but, when you listen to what they re saying, they re painting a picture of a thriving sector that involves a lot of enthusiastic people. He adds: We ve talked to politicians and people from the offshore sector and not least to the experts who ve helped identify the fields that should be focused on in future to strengthen the offshore sector even further. Naturally, we ve also talked to companies that ve benefitted from the TV producer Mick Østergaard (left) involved in the preparation of footage for the programme on Offshore Energy. To the right is Product Manager Peter Dahlgaard from the company Sihm Højtryk, which is one of the companies that went through a development process in connection with Offshore Energy. In the programme, Peter Dahlgaard relates what the company experienced. 12 ON/OFF NEWS - February 2013

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14 project, and I hope viewers will enjoy the programme. Business with large customers One of the people in the programme is Product Manager Peter Dahlgaard from the company Sihm Højtryk/Aquatool, that was among the selected companies that made use of special upskilling courses offered as a part of the sub-project Offshore Supply. Sihm Højtryk/Aquatool was assisted in defining objectives and strengthening its strategy and also given advice in a range of other fields. Peter Dahlgaard is thrilled about having taken part in Offshore Energy and about his appearance in the TV programme. He says: I m sure I got my message through, and Offshore Energy has been a very positive experience for our company. We ve achieved a certification that paves the way for us to do business with the large players in the sector, and I m not sure that we d got the certification if we d had to do all the work ourselves or we wouldn t have got it so fast. Region South Denmark has approved the cost of the programme, which has been produced in collaboration with Communication Consultant Søren Dybdahl from Offshore Center Danmark. He has helped the programme-makers get in touch with sources in the offshore sector. NTD Deepwater Proof Technology Launch and Recovery Systems 5Te 12Te 30Te 100Te Active Heave Compensation Flexibility through Standard Design Electric or Hydraulic Drives Fully Electronic Control Working Depth Beyond 3000m ntd offshore a/s Herningvej DK-6950 Ringkøbing Phone: Mail: sales@ntd-offshore.com 14 ON/OFF NEWS - February 2013

15 Offshore Energy attracts followers from more than 500 organisations Great interest in following news from the project through electronic newsletter Member of Esbjerg Council Karen Baungaard has joined the guests at almost all the conferences that have been held in relation to Offshore Energy. Here she is engaging in a dialogue with former chairman of Offshore Center Danmark, Niels Aage Giversen, at one of the conferences. Interest in following what the development project Offshore Energy has been up to and in results from the project has been considerable. The final electronic newsletter about the project will be sent to more than 500 companies, organisations and educational establishments. Companies such as Semco Maritime, Maersk Oil and Hytor plus a large number of people from the southern Danish region s upper secondary schools/high schools and universities follow the project, and this includes Esbjerg s mayor Johnny Søtrup. Marianne Thorlund Tølbøll from Offshore Center Danmark, is managing the project. She says: Since the project was initiated, we ve issued 25 newsletters and invitations for events under Offshore Energy, and a growing number people have signed up for the newsletter to keep abreast of the project. Not least does this include a group of journalists and local politicians who are obviously following the project closely. A lot of people also visit the website each month to read news and download brochures. In addition to a large number of newsletters, the website has continually been updated with articles and news on Offshore Energy. Since the first article was published on December 18, 2009, almost 130 articles covering interim results and advance publicity of future events have been issued. Rømø Havn ON/OFF NEWS - February

16 Offshore sector assisted by soldiers Soldiers who have returned home are to relieve personnel shortage in the oil and gas sector The cavalry will literally be coming to the rescue of the offshore sector in an effort to relieve the shortage of qualified labour that is a result of heightened activity in the industry. While other sectors are experiencing unemployment, the offshore sector s problem is quite the reverse: it is hard to attract staff with the right qualifications and a desire to work in the North Sea or in western Jutland. The shortage of labour means that some companies involved in oil and gas extraction in the North Sea and internationally are having to reject new assignments simply because they do not have the staff to carry out the work. However, help is now on the way, and it will be coming from a group of soldiers who have returned home from missions in Afghanistan and Iraq or from other of the world s hot spots. Ole Brøndum, founder of the organisation Veteran Cross Over, says: This is a group of people who are used to tough weather conditions and to being stationed far away from home, and they also have the discipline required for performing the jobs to which they re Soldiers are often as young as in their mid-20s when they apply for civil jobs after having ended their military careers abroad. Some of these soldiers will have the opportunity to find jobs in the offshore sector. assigned. On the other hand, they don t have the resources to embark on a 5-year education when they ve finished their careers in the Danish Defence. This is why it s almost a perfect solution to have them help the Danish offshore sector after a few weeks of training. 16 ON/OFF NEWS - February 2013

17 27,000 candidates Veteran Cross Over is a new initiative that is to help some of the around 27,000 soldiers who have returned home from missions abroad with a job or further training after their military careers have ended. The soldiers are often in their mid-20s when they leave the defence and obtain status as veterans. Many of them have a practical education from the defence or from civil business in their luggage; however, they still find it difficult to find a job. This is the reason that the offshore sector and Veteran Cross Over are collaborating to remedy the shortage of labour and supply the veterans with jobs. Companies such as Semco Maritime have so far had a veteran training with them for 4 weeks and are contemplating including more veterans. This can happen as interested veterans complete a brief further training course that includes, for instance, mandatory safety courses and basic courses. Jens Holm-Nielsen, Vice President of Semco Maritime and responsible for HR, says: We have a great need for new staff with the required qualifications, which is why we re keen to talk to Veteran Cross Over. If the veterans have the qualifications that are fundamentally necessary for working offshore, they ll definitely be interesting to us. The collaboration between the offshore sector and Veteran Cross Over has been initiated in the wake of the development project Offshore Energy in that 2 of the project s 5 sub-projects focus on training and career opportunities. One idea among many The collaboration with Veteran Cross Over was presented at a workshop on Wednesday October 28 last year, where representatives from the offshore sector and the educational establishments were gathered for an idea generation day to discuss how the offshore sector s shortage of staff can be remedied and open the way for further growth. In addition to the idea about training returned soldiers for the offshore sector, scores of small and big ideas were presented as well. These ideas have since been assessed by a working group with a view to choosing those that can be realised for instance in collaboration with external investors. NH3 & Coating A/S is the preferred supplier within industrial coating due to Great flexibility Insurance of delivery High quality Out of the box thinking in regards to providing solutions to special assignments The company is situated in Vejen municipality close to the Kolding-Esbjerg freeway, at easy accessible premises. At the grounds we have the capability to handle and store very large units. The company employs specially educated workers with great experience and skills within the fields of: Sand- & Bead blasting Metallizing Wet- and Powder coating Friction hosing & Shotpeening We look forward to providing the best solution Tel ON/OFF NEWS - February

18 Offshore sector helped to find its inner strength A value chain analysis has been an important part of Offshore Energy A prerequisite to achieving one s aim is knowing where one wants to go. This applies not least to an ambitious development project such as Offshore Energy. One of the main tasks of the project has therefore been to analyse and chart the offshore sector to highlight strengths and define effort areas. This work now benefits all companies that are considering which fields of business they are going to focus on in future. At an early point in the project, Offshore Energy identified strengths and effort areas by means of the so-called value chain analysis, prepared by Oxford Research, which outlined the composition of the oil and gas sector. The analysis made it possible to identify effort areas and opportunities for entering the sector. No matter where a company is placed in the offshore supply chain, it is thus possible to decide whether there is a need for changing one s strategy or whether one s company is focusing on the right business opportunities. Oxford Research state in their analysis that Danish know-how is in a strong position thanks to, for instance, what Danish consultancy firms can offer and because of Danish skills in the field of safety and preparedness training. However, the analysis has also helped turn the spotlight on training in connection with Offshore Energy in that this field Projektet Energi på havet har det overordnede formål at skabe fornyet vækst og beskæftigelse i offshorebranchen. Projektet består af 5 delprojekter og et overordnet projekt: Offshore Supply Substitution af materialer offshore Koordinering af offshoreuddannelser Rekruttering og profilering Offshore vindsektoren - forskning. Det overordnede projekt ledes af Offshore Center Danmark og støttes af Syddansk Vækstforum, EU s Europæiske Fond for Regionaludvikling. has been in need of a purposeful effort. When the value chain analysis was presented in 2010, Jakob Stoumann Jensen from Oxford Research stated that the offshore sector is facing great challenges when it comes to promoting itself to young people as an exciting place for them to work. Niels Bohrs Vej Esbjerg Tlf. (+45) info@offshorecenter.dk Offshore Center Danmark er en medlemsbaseret organisation, der nationalt og internationalt arbejder for at styrke den danske offshoresektor. Fokusområder er olie og gas, offshore vind og det maritime offshoreområde. Hovedaktiviteterne omfatter: Netværksaktiviteter, koordinering af tekniske udviklingsprojekter, vidensdeling og promovering af den danske offshorebranche. Centret virker gennem initiativer og aktiviteter, der udvikler viden og fremmer samarbejdet mellem alle aktørerne i den danske offshorebranche: Industrier, rådgivere, uddannelsesinstitutioner og myndigheder. Jakob Stoumann Jensen said: Young people don t realise that being an electrician isn t necessarily about attaching small wires to a panel; it can also be about hanging high up in the air from a wind turbine far from the shore. Those who want to be involved in traditional electrical work can find work in another industry, while those who want to travel far and wide and work for large, international companies seem to believe that they won t get the chance to do that in the offshore sector. The sub-projects Recruitment and Profiling and Coordination and Development of Offshore Training Courses have done much to widen the selection of training VÆRDIKÆDEANALYSE AF OFFSHORE OLIE- OG GASSEKTOREN I DANMARK VÆRDIKÆDEANALYSE AF OFFSHORE OLIE- OG GASSEKTOREN I DANMARK Analyse udarbejdet for Offshore Center Danmark af Oxford Research, Oktober 2010 courses and invite young people to join the offshore sector. 24-hour camps and open house days have provided young people with the opportunity to try out what it is like to work in the offshore sector. The value chain analysis is an important tool also for other companies with an interest in the sector. Please download the analysis in its entirety from www. energipaahavet.dk. 18 ON/OFF NEWS - February 2013

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20 Companies provided with useful tools for moving into offshore sector Offshore Energy put companies back on the school bench One of the cornerstones of the development project Offshore Energy was to motivate more companies to involve themselves in the offshore sector. Experiences from before the project began and analyses of opportunities and challenges indicated that especially small companies were skeptical of the sector s tough requirements; which explains why they did not attempt to enter this industry at all. However, the companies reluctance to attempt to enter the offshore sector often has to do with misunderstandings and lack of information, and Offshore Energy therefore worked as a platform from which a range of initiatives were taken to break down barriers and strengthen opportunities for companies in the sector. The tools were thoroughly tested and adapted by the help of workshops with participation of sub-suppliers and guided learning processes involving 20 pilot companies. The result was a compendium that was completed on January 22, The compendium can be downloaded here or ordered from Offshore Center Danmark against a fee from March 1, Michael Ahring Petersen, manager of the sub-project Offshore Supply, says: We hope the compendium will be useful to many more companies, either through self-study or by means of assistance from an experienced person from the offshore sector who can help a company understand what should be done. Furthermore, a booklet version has been prepared with the aim of inspiring interested companies to qualify themselves for entering the offshore oil and gas sector. The booklet is available in electronic form and in a printed version and can be ordered from Offshore Center Danmark from March 1, 2013 while stocks last. The portal offshore-supply.dk provides information on the various tools from the compendium, and the competence wheel and other tools can be downloaded from the site as well. When the project began on March 1, 2010, a working group under the subproject Offshore Supply was asked to prepare a compendium with the aim of easing companies entry into the offshore sector or grow in the offshore oil and gas market. In 2010 a working group was appointed, consisting of Bureau Veritas, Force Technology, Ocean Team and Business Kolding. The group s aim was to present a clear and useful tool that would help companies know about and understand the many requirements from operators and main suppliers that sub-suppliers must live up to. The working group has been given positive feedback from companies that have piloted the compendium, which indicates that the aim will be achieved. Generelle lovkrav Trackrecord Kundekrav Produktlovgivning IT-platform Forsikring Kundeplatform Økonomisk robusthed Kompetencehjul - fem hovedområder Kvalitetsledelsessystem Arbejdsmiljøsystem Miljøledelsessystem Love, normer, standarder Ressourceplatform Bestyrelse Ledelse Forretningsplan Mission Værditilbud/ produkt Synlighed Leverandører Renomme Organisation Netværkssamarbejde Markedsføring Markedsanalyse Profil i databaser Performancemåling Kernekompetence Kritiske relationer Leverandørrolle Personlige relationer Tilstedeværelse 20 ON/OFF NEWS - February 2013