Ingeborg Vårdal has this week assumed the position of CCO Process Chemistry – responsible for chemistry and quality at Blue Ocean Technology.

Ingeborg is a Civil Engineer in Chemistry (organic chemistry combined with chemical engineering) with 14 years of work experience as a chemist/engineer.

She has extensive experience with chemistry from positions at Os and Bjørnafjorden municipality (water and sewerage), Norsk Gjenvinning Industri (Operations Manager for tank and treatment plants), researcher and lab experience in Schlumberger as well as technical support engineer in the department of Drilling and Completion Fluid in Baker Hughes.

At Blue Ocean, Ingeborg has overall responsibility for chemistry and quality in connection with efficiency of products, chemistry and process support for customers – and generally working for ever-increasing sustainability for closed aquaculture solutions.

Per Olav Haaland has been hired as process engineer at Blue Ocean Technology.

Per Olav will be a very important piece in the work to constantly take the sludge treatment solutions a step further. He will also be a key figure in the work of providing credible, reliable systems and solutions for downstream treatment of sludge, tailored customer’s need for after-use (biogas, pyrolysis, compost, fertilizers, aquaponics).

With his process expertise, he will have a strong focus on all aspects of the dewatering, purification and reuse chain in order to exploit sludge as the resource it is.

Per Olav has experience as a technical safety engineer from Aker Solutions, has a master’s degree in process technology and a Bachelor in Process (optimization of industrial processes.

-We see that customers are thinking bigger and larger facilities, have an increased focus on collecting sludge also in the sea where it is appropriate – and want to continuously improve their ESG scores and focus.

About Blue Ocean Technology

The company saw the light of day in response to a need: we saw the opportunity to produce more compact, efficient sludge cleaning plants with significantly lower power consumption than what was available  in the market. Decades of experience in the oil industry, combined with aquaculture experience, brought to life a new generation of sludge treatment plants – based on doing things differently.

We have delivered a wide range of facilities along large parts of the coast coastline, with many more under assembly and  planning – in Norway and internationally. The customers are primarily fish and postmolt facilities – as well as closed on-growing facilities on land and in the sea.