Jens Kaalstad MS
Senior Advisor
Jens Kaalstad has over 30 years’ broad experience in the Oil and Gas, Shipping and Offshore Industry. He has a varied background in management, engineering, technology development, contracting, procurement, construction and installation. He has been responsible for marketing, identifying, developing, negotiating and closing of EPCI contracts in excess of $100 million and involved in numerous design, fabrication and installation projects as well as development projects for various fixed and floating platform solutions. He graduated with a Master of Science in Naval Architecture from the Norwegian Institute of Technology after one year at MIT, Department of Ocean Engineering.
EDUCATION
Master of Science – Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Trondheim, Norway
Special Student – Ocean Engineering, MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Cambridge, Massachusetts
Intangible Assets
Intangible assets are the unseen drivers of enterprise value. Their importance lies in the way they differentiate companies in crowded markets and create resilience through shifting conditions.
Offshore ET not on Life Support
There are financial/operational benefits of repurposing/utilizing existing infrastructure for clean energy.
A World Without Gas Stations
My father owned and operated a Mobil Oil gas station for about twenty years. Hence, the thought of a world without gas stations is about abstract as it gets, but that is where we are headed.