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Rock on
When we pull off in our cars or turn on our boilers as the cold spell hits, it is easy
to forget where the energy comes from and the technical ingenuity that made this
possible. At the heart of oil and gas discovery are the men and women who are
the sector’s very own ‘intrepid explorers’.
Wireline
chats to Eivind Fromyr, chief
geophysicist at PGS, about three decades filled with restless innovation.
“I
’m in the UK today, going to Asia
next week and South America the
week after,” says Eivind as we try to
pin down a time to chat with him. If ever
there was proof required that geophysics in
the oil and gas industry is an exhilarating
field to work in, Eivind’s schedule would
provide the hard evidence to back this up.
“It is a global industry which gives me
an opportunity to see parts of the world
I wouldn’t normally see. I have travelled
through Asia, Africa, South America
and North America, so in that sense it
is an exciting way to get to know the
world,” he says.
It’s no wonder then that Eivind was
seduced by the opportunities of working
in oil and gas; it wasn’t in his original
career plans. He thought he would end
up developing cruise guided missiles
when he was studying cybernetics (the
scientific study of how people, animals
Eivind Fromyr’s role as chief
geophysicist at PGS offers him the
opportunity to play a key role in
discovering and recovering the world’s
oil and gas. He relishes the technical
challenges involved
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