Danish offshore oil and gas goes international – part II - In progress

Goal

The project will accurately identify the knowledge export opportunities for Danish offshore technology for 5 oil and gas markets: Norway, Greenland, Angola, Brazil and the Middle East.
One of the countries will be selected for planning of a joint knowledge and promotion of exports campaign in the country. After evaluation similar campaigns will be conducted in the other countries, making a total of 5 campaigns.
Through the project, it is aimed to establish a "Danish offshore oil and gas Knowledge ambassador" in each of the countries. The knowledge ambassador will proactively contribute to knowledge export and collecting experience.

Description

During the past 20 years Danish offshore industry have gained unique expertise in a number of important areas, including oil and gas extraction from tight reservoirs. In recent years these competencies have been marketed and sold in selected markets abroad. One of the ways this have been achieved is through cooperation among export-oriented organizations in the Danish offshore industry.
Knowledge is highlighted repeatedly in the contracting international markets as the primary competitive factor. But exactly “what knowledge” and “how knowledge should be marketed and sold internationally”, is not clear.
The project's organizational focal point is the "Danish Offshore Internationalization Committee" consisting of the project partners: Offshore Centre Danmark, Danish Industries, the Danish Export Association, the Industrialization Fund for Developing Countries (IFU), The Trade Council (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) University of Southern Denmark and Aalborg University.

Milestones

Results

For 2012 the main activities are in progress as below:

An information meeting for Danish offshore companies about Greenland
was held on January 12th 2012.

An information meeting for Danish companies about the possibilities in the offshore sector – including export – was held on January 17th 2012.

Members of the OCD internationalization network was meeting on March 8th 2012.

OCD will be present and promoting OCD members at the WETEX exhibition for energy in Dubai,
UAE on 13th - 16th March 2012.

An information session will be held on March 28th 2012 by Esbjerg Erhvervsudvikling, EEU (Esbjerg Business Council) with participation of The Danish Consul Generale in UAE and OCD high-lighting business opportunities in The Middle East (please register by www.eeu.dk).

Visit by Angolas Minister of Energy to OCD is planned on April 25th-26th 2012.

OGIB, the international business meeting event for oil & gas, will include presentation by the 5 “country ambassadors” (please visit www.ogib.dk)

Public OCD Kick-Off and presentation of “country ambassadors” will be on May 24th 2012 (please register on-line for participation).

Members of the OCD internationalization network will meet on June 13th 2012.

OCD will be present and promoting OCD members at the offshore oil & gas exhibition ONS in Stavanger,
Norway on August 28th - 31st 2012.

Participation by OCD, The Danish Foreign Ministery (UM) and Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) at the Rio Oil & Gas exhibition in Brazil on September 17-20th 2012.

A delegation trip to Greenland is planned for September 24-28th 2012.

A delegation trip to Angola is in planning progress for October 2012.

Participation by OCD and The Danish Foreign Ministery (UM) at the Oil & Gas exhibition, Adipec, in Abu Dhabi is planned for November 11-14th 2012.

              Angola                               Arabic Emirates                          Brazil

      Norway               Greenland