HitecVision

HitecVision AS is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Stavanger, Norway, specializing in investments within the energy sector, particularly in oil and gas service technology and production companies. Established in 1985, the firm targets middle market companies and seeks to invest between $30 million and $150 million for controlling stakes in enterprises valued up to $300 million. HitecVision focuses on growth capital, management buyouts, and public-to-private transactions, while also participating in add-on acquisitions. With a significant presence in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Northern Europe, and North America, particularly in Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States, HitecVision has built a robust portfolio, having acquired, invested in, or established over 150 companies since 1994 and successfully exited more than 100. The firm combines its industry expertise with a commitment to fostering partnerships with entrepreneurial managers to create substantial and sustainable growth.

Lars Christian Bacher

Senior Partner

Benjamin Balteskard

Associate

Sunniva L. Bjørnstad

Partner

Mariann Bærheim

Chief Operating Officer

Pål A. Dahlberg

Chief Sustainability Officer

Oddvar Dirdal

Director Mid-Office

Petter Tandstad Ege

Investment Director

Jan Helland Eide

Partner

Atle S. Eide

Senior Partner

Erlend Basmo Ellingsen

Senior Partner

Kjell-Erik Endresen

Senior Partner

Ole Ertvaag

Co-Founder, Partner & Chief Executive Officer

Tor Espedal

Senior Partner

Endre Folge

Partner

Kaia Gaarud

Associate

Morten Gilje

Partner

Einar Gjelsvik

Senior Partner

Claudia Guardo

Senior Associate

Ove Gusevik

Senior Partner

Gunnar Halvorsen

Senior Partner

Simen Helland

Senior Associate

Nikolay Iankov

Partner Credit

Ove Martin Juul

Director Mid-Office

Ronny Karlsen

Investment Director

John Knight

Senior Partner

Birgitte Kolstad

Investment Director

Christian Kronstad

Partner

Ann-Mari Lillejord

Partner

Liv Marit Lundby

Chief Financial Officer

Grethe Meisingset

Partner

Dag Thomas Michalsen

Partner & Head of Credit

Nipun Narang

Partner

Silje Nilsskog

Associate

Pål Reiulf Olsen

Senior Partner

Pål Reed

Co-Founder, Partner and Deputy Chief Executive Officer

Michael Robberstad

Partner

Louise Samuelsson

Partner

Jone Skaara

Senior Partner

Jan Harald Solstad

Senior Partner

Johan Sonander

Partner, Structuring, Financing and Risk Solutions

Maren Stangeland

Senior Associate

Egil Stokka

Senior Partner and Legal Director

Ola Sætre

Founding Partner

Alf C. Thorkildsen

Senior Partner

Arne Trondsen

Senior Partner & Head of Business Development

Nils Petter Ueland

Director Mid-Office and Finance

Jon Vatnaland

Senior Partner

Benjamin Vidnes

Associate

Kurt Waldeland

Partner

Bertel Ånestad

Partner

Andre Ølberg

Partner

Past deals in Norway

Kvaerner

Post in 2015
Kvaerner is an international knowledge-based company. Kvaerner has decades of experience as an EPC contractor. Kvaerner is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, and has offices and fabrication facilities in several of the world’s main oil and gas regions. The Kvaerner brand is associated with some of the world’s most advanced technologies, providing our customers with maximum oil and gas production. At Kvaerner, their focus is on the fundamentals. Concern for health, safety, security and environment (HSSE) is essential for our activities. They see cost control and efficiency as key to successful project execution. At the same time, they know that quality and schedule have to be managed to achieve their ultimate goal: that every project is delivered predictably. Kvaerner delivers complete oil and gas offshore platforms and onshore process plants to operators and other customers. They specialise in executing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) projects and are recognised as a world leader in delivering projects in challenging environments, with strict budget frames and within demanding schedules. Customers recognise Kvaerner as an expert in delivering cost-efficient project execution and effective oil and gas production facilities. Kvaerner has an organisation of 2 800 employees with expertise and experience covering all phases of a project’s life cycle. We also have the ability to call on a workforce of skilled personnel from strategic partners, subcontractors and suppliers, with whom we have well established relationships. Kvaerner has a long track record of enabling oil companies to realise some of the world’s most demanding and amazing projects. In doing so, they strive to add value to their customers and shareholders, as well as to the nations and local societies in which they operate. The companies brought together to create Kvaerner were established in the first half of the 19th century, during the Industrial Revolution. These companies delivered products such as steam engines for rail and marine use and a range of industrial ironworks. Over the next 100 years, the businesses grew significantly. In the mid1900s, both Kvaerner and Aker were international corporations with activities in shipbuilding, hydro power, wood processing and other process operations, mechanical workshops and other industries. Through the 1970s, 80s and 90s, they developed their capabilities and experience as suppliers of complete solutions to offshore and onshore oil and gas and processing projects. They each grew – organically and through international acquisitions – to be leaders in their markets. In March 2002, the former Kvaerner group and the Aker Maritime group (comprising the oil and gas activities of the wider Aker group) were merged, and started to operate as one company under the name Kvaerner. In 2004, following a restructuring of both Aker and Kvaerner, Aker Kvaerner was established and the parent company of this group – Aker Kvaerner – was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Four years later, Aker Kvaerner changed its name to Aker Solutions. In December 2010, Aker Solutions announced a decision to cultivate its core businesses. Kvaerner was established, through a demerger, as a specialised EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) company addressing the global market. On 6 May 2011, the shareholders' annual general meeting approved the establishing of Kvaerner as a separate company.

North Sea Strategic Investments

Acquisition in 2015
NSSI is an investment platform that has been established to acquire shares in selected oil service companies.

Aquamarine Subsea

Acquisition in 2014
Aquamarine Subsea is an international service company providing asset integrity, management, and life cycle service solutions to riser and subsea equipment owners in the drilling, work-over and production markets.

Reef Subsea

Acquisition in 2014
Reef Subsea is a privately held company that provides specialist subsea services to offshore oil and gas and telecommunication industries.

DeepWell

Private Equity Round in 2014
DeepWell is a well intervention company primarily providing wireline services to oil companies. The company is headquartered in and has its operational base outside of Haugesund, Norway.

Teresoft

Acquisition in 2014
Teresoft is a supplier of drilling and well performance solutions. The company offers solutions for planning, training, optimization, and control of drilling operations; and solutions for drilling and crane simulation and training.

Flux Group

Acquisition in 2014
Flux Group is a provider of products and services across the flow and fluid control sector of the oil and gas industry. Through acquisitions and organic development, Flux Group has established attractive positions in selected market niches. The company has ambitions for expanding its footprint in addition to secure further growth within its present segments.

CapeOmega

Acquisition in 2014
CapeOmega is an oil and gas company aiming to capture the value potential in mature producing fields by investing in remaining resources.

Offshore Merchant Partners

Private Equity Round in 2013
Offshore Merchant Partners is an independent specialty finance company providing financing solutions to the global oil & gas related offshore asset markets.

Deep Sea Mooring AS

Acquisition in 2013
Deep Sea Mooring AS supplies mooring rental equipment, pre-lay mooring solutions, and ancillary services to E&P companies.

MOMEK Group

Private Equity Round in 2012
MOMEK Group offers construction and engineering services. The company operates in three divisions: manufacturing, maintenance and modification, and civil divisions. It offers engineering, project management, inspection, documentation, robot welding, machining, stainless steel fabrication, and prefabrication services.

Global Maritime

Acquisition in 2012
Global Maritime is a marine, offshore and engineering consultancy that specializes in marine warranty, dynamic positioning and engineering services, for the oil and gas, offshore renewables, fish farming and traditional shipping industries.

Tampnet

Acquisition in 2010
Tampnet AS is a Norwegian company that operates the largest offshore communication network in the world, primarily in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Stavanger, Norway, it provides high-speed, low-latency connectivity through a network of fiber optics, offshore 4G LTE, and microwave links. The company serves over 350 offshore installations, including oil and gas platforms, floating production storage and offloading units, and exploration rigs. With additional offices in locations such as Aberdeen, Katy, Scott, Hoofddorp, Crows Nest, and Rio de Janeiro, Tampnet aims to enhance operational quality, safety, efficiency, and welfare for its clients by delivering reliable connectivity that links offshore assets to robust terrestrial networks.

Agility Group

Acquisition in 2009
AgilityGroup is a full-service engineering, procurement and construction company situated in 13 different locations in Norway.

Stream AS

Private Equity Round in 2009
Stream AS, together with its subsidiaries, supplies various products, solutions, and services in the field of valves, piping, electrical, and instrumentation for the oil and gas industries in Norway and Germany. The company supplies pneumatic and hydraulic systems, control units, valves, tube and pipe fittings, pipes, flanges, courses, mechanical connections, and spring suspension products; and provides instrumentation and monitoring, repair and maintenance, injection and sampling, and inspection services. It also offers materials, instruments, and equipment for chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and power industry. The company is headquartered in Tananger, Norway. Stream AS operates as a subsidiary of Bokn Invest AS.

Spring Energy Norway

Private Equity Round in 2008
Spring Energy Norway is explores, extracts, develops, and produces oil and gas products in Norway.

Hitec Products Drilling

Acquisition in 2008
HPD is an independent market provider of advanced engineering services, software solutions and integration systems to the drilling and well industry world wide.

Ross Offshore

Acquisition in 2008
Ross Offshore offers project management and consultancy to the upstream oil and gas industry. It also offers seasoned personnel with up-to-date technical skills and in-depth knowledge in their fields.

Poseidon Group AS

Private Equity Round in 2007
Poseidon Group AS provides marinization, engineering, and technical consulting solutions for the oil and gas industry.

Teknisk Bureau

Acquisition in 2007
Teknisk Bureau is a technical turnkey contractor and service provider within the fields of pipes, ventilation, telecom, automation, energy consulting, maritime electrical, and electrical. The company takes individual assignments and bigger framework agreements inside the service market. The assignments vary from check of electrical installations in homes to start-up, maintenance, and internal control of bigger facilities. It guarantees customer satisfaction by ensuring that products and services always meet the requirements and expectations and are delivered at the agreed time and price. Teknisk Bureau is based in Norway.

Apply

Acquisition in 2007
Apply Sørco is a multidiscipline engineering company providing services to the oil and gas industry. It supplies studies, engineering and project management services within the Maintenance & Modification area, Operation support, and EPCI projects. Apply Sørco specializes in contracts across all project phases, from concept development and studies to completion and commissioning focusing its activities on upgrading the performance of oil and gas facilities in operation offshore and onshore. Apply Sørco was founded in 1979.

Leirvik

Acquisition in 2007
Leirvik is an engineering, procurement, and construction contractor of aluminium offshore living quarters to oil companies. The company delivers EPC products based on the standardized project execution model and components in which it includes client specifications as well as regional regulations. The company develops lasting values for customers and the society by designing, manufacturing, and keeping updated living quarters, helidecks and accessories with short lead time and predictable quality and cost. Leirvik was founded on 1946 and is based in Stord, Norway.

Bennex

Acquisition in 2006
Bennex is one of the leading suppliers of subsea distribution (hydraulic and electrical) systems, fiber optic, electromagnetic and seismic applications. Poseidon is a subsea engineering and consulting company capable of marinizing existing Siemens equipment and technology to subsea environment, such as subsea control systems, transformers, switchgears, electric motors automation and compressors along with other complementary elements such like cameras and subsea electric valve actuators.

Technor ASA

Acquisition in 2006
Technor ASA is a privately held company that provides industrial machinery.

Aarbakke

Acquisition in 2006
Aarbakke is a supplier of precision manufacturing services to the oil and gas industry. It handles entire customer projects from start to end, including manufacturing, engineering, machining, clad welding, assembly, testing, and documentation.