Kongsberg Digital announces CEO and MoU
As a new CEO joins the software firm, Kongsberg announces an MoU with an oil giant.
Software developer for maritime and oil and gas sectors Kongsberg Digital has appointed a CEO, the firm has announced.
Shane McArdle steps into the job, replacing Hege Skryseth, who left to join Equinor last week.
McArdle was formerly head of Digital Energy at the firm, where he has built a customer and product portfolio and ‘secured a leading global position’, Kongsberg says.
The software firm followed the announcement with another revelation a couple of days later – that they had joined forces with oil giant Shell ‘to help decarbonise the maritime industry’.
“The new partnership will see KDI bring its digital data infrastructure solutions, applications and open ecosystems together with Shell’s portfolio of technical and digital services, which improve performance and reduce running and maintenance costs for its marine customers,” says a statement – without giving details of what this will actually entail.
The statement did go on to say that Kongsberg already provides a digital twin for Shell on several of its assets, including the Nyhamna gas facility in Norway.
