Business development
Market strategy, key account work and tender support for suppliers targeting operators and EPC contractors.
Thirty years of selling, specifying and delivering critical rotating equipment to the world's largest energy companies. Now applied to the full energy mix, from deepwater oil & gas to carbon storage and offshore wind.
Services
Technical-commercial advisory
Pumps, compressors and rotating machinery: scope definition, specification review and bid evaluation.
Energy transition
Subsea and rotating machinery know-how for CO₂ injection, offshore renewables and decommissioning, including technology qualification to DNV RP-A203.
Interim management
Hands-on leadership for sales organisations, subsidiaries or projects that need experienced direction.
Small tasks or large assignments
Scope and duration are set by what you need, not by a minimum fee.
Hours to days
Quick support
A second opinion on a bid, a review of a pump specification, a sparring partner before a key customer meeting.
Weeks to months
Defined projects
Tender management, market studies, partner and agent selection, technology qualification support.
Months and longer
Long-term roles
Interim sales or general management, regional business development, or a standing advisory role.
Markets
North America
Seven years in Houston as president of Framo's subsidiary, negotiating all of its North American contracts.
Asia-Pacific & Africa
Built pump and subsea processing sales in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia, then across Africa, for greenfield and brownfield projects.
Norway & Europe
Based in Bergen, with three years in Paris and a network across the North Sea supply chain, from subsea IMR to offshore renewables.
Experience
Led Framo's North American business through the Gulf of Mexico deepwater build-out, where multiphase pump packages were won for ExxonMobil Julia and Chevron Jack & St. Malo. Ten years based abroad, in Houston and Paris. DNV technology qualification (RP-A203). Working languages: English, Norwegian, French.
- 2020–2024Managing Director, Heinzmann Automation AS
- 2017–2020Head of Sales, Swire Seabed AS
- 2015–2018Regional Manager Pumps & Subsea Systems, Africa, OneSubsea / SLB
- 2012–2015Sales Manager Pumps & Subsea Systems, Asia-Pacific, Framo Engineering / OneSubsea
- 2005–2012President, Framo Engineering Houston Inc.
- 1988–2005Engineering, project and sales management, Framo Engineering, FMC Kongsberg Subsea, AGR Services, Atlas-Stord (Norway and France)
- 1987Mechanical Engineer, Gothenburg Technical Institute
Let's talk
Are R. Nordahl, Principal. Based in Bergen and available for assignments worldwide, large or small. A short call is usually the best way to start.
- are.nordahl@nordahlenergy.com
- Phone
- +47 908 99 662
- linkedin.com/in/are-nordahl
- Office
- Bergen, Norway