News from Eldor

Wednesday this week, NFEA (Norsk forening for Elektro og Automasjon), elected Bernt H. Eldor as their new Chairman of the Board. NFEA is the Norwegian Association for Electrical and Automation, a place where professionals within the disciplines can share experiences and learn about future developments. NFEA's members cover academia, end users, suppliers and engineering companies.

Håkon Rem (left) handing over the gavel and his title to Bernt Eldor (right)

This week NFEA's Levetidskonferansen 2018 was held at Eldor offices in Stavanger. We had the pleasure to listen to a lot of great presenters including a couple from Eldor. Jørund Sæten was representing AkerBP with his presentation on Lifetime Extension of Safety Systems on Valhall and Ula, while Torbjørn Rørtvedt and Gisle Ersdal where presenting better ways to optimise cost during life time extension projects. The conference ended with an interesting panel debate hosted by Managing Director of Eldor Technology, Bjarne André Asheim about on who will own lifecycle management going forward and how technology will impact the need for future upgrades.

Bjarne André Asheim (CEO, Eldor Technology) & Claus Myllerup (CTO, Eldor Technology)

This week, NFEA will be hosting "Sikkerhetssystemkonferansen 2018", where key people of different industries, mainly oil and gas, land-based industry and transportation, will come together to share news and experiences about safety systems. The conference is an important area where one can share experiences within everything from project start to operation. 

This week, the 16th and 17th of October, Eldor was the host of a conference on Human Factors in Control, in association with Sintef, at our offices in Stavanger. The theme of the conference was "Methods and models for successful digitalisation."

Last week Eldor attended the 2018 Honeywell User Group conference for EMEA in Madrid, Spain. As Honeywell Channel Partners the conference was a great way to meet Honeywell Leadership, other channel partners, customers, automation users and industry experts, to share and exchange knowledge. Eldor, as represented by Arvid Halrynjo and Nitin Moghe, held a presentation for other Honeywell Channel Partners on how to execute an alarm management project, with a test case project of about 45.000 alarms that Eldor has rationalized for the customer in Norway. 

On Friday the 28th of September, Eldor Technology AS had a visit from Laibin Zhang (President), Jun Yao (Professor Ph. D, Deputy Director) and Menglan Duan (dean D. Sc. Professor) of the China University of Petroleum, Beijing China. The parties discussed future collaboration and cooperation and afterwards signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a partnership and for future cooperation within joint research and development activities.  

Eldor Technology is currently at ONS to promote AlarmTracker. You can find us at the ONS Innovation Park with the Norwegian Research Council in Hall 8. We are showing a demo for AlarmTracker, and we are looking forward to meeting you and providing you with any additional information or answers to questions that you might have about AlarmTracker. The product is under development and the first commercial product will be available in the summer of 2019. We are very happy that we get to show off the product demo at ONS this week!