Jarle Harnes

Manager Asset Mgmt and Comm Opt.

Norway

About

Current Position From May 2026: Long-Term Refinery Planning – CPL Crude & Refinery Optimisation @Mongstad Refinery - Working with long-term refinery planning and optimisation of the Mongstad asset - Supporting strategic development, scenario analysis, and value chain optimisation - Contributing to decision support for future refinery configuration and investments - Collaborating across technical, commercial, and sustainability disciplines Previous Positions 2024 – May 2026: Asset Development, Asset Management & Climate – Mongstad Refinery - Worked with asset development, asset management, and long-term refinery strategy - Contributed to climate initiatives and CO2 reduction measures - Supported economic modelling and evaluation of development opportunities - Participated in cross-value chain optimisation and business development 2022 – 2024: Environmental Engineer @Mongstad Refinery - Responsible for follow-up of emissions to air - Environmental monitoring, reporting, and regulatory compliance 2020 – 2022: Production Engineer – Gullfaks B / Gullfaks SAT - Follow-up of well performance and production optimisation 2018 – 2020: Environmental Engineer @Mongstad Refinery Nov 2011 – Apr 2018: Process Engineer @Mongstad Refinery - Process safety risk assessments - Technical integrity - Operational and design-related risks Academic Experience (PhD) - Computational chemistry and molecular modelling

Experience

  • Equinor Long Term Refinery Planning (Full-time · 2 yrs 5 mos)
    • Manager Asset Mgmt and Comm Opt.
      May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    • Manager Asset Mgmt and Comm Opt.
      Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Leading Engineer, Asset Development Refinery and Climate
      Feb 2024 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr

  • Equinor (5 yrs 10 mos)
    • Principal Engineer Sustainability
      Nov 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Principal Engineer Production Technology
      May 2020 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    • Principal Engineer Sustainability Environment risk assessment & monitoring
      May 2018 - May 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Statoil (6 yrs 6 mos)
    • Sr. Eng. in the group of design integrity
      Jan 2018 - Apr 2018 · 4 mos

      Process eng. within the group of Design Integrity / Process and technical integrity issues.

    • Sr. Process Eng. working towards the crude unit
      Aug 2016 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Process engineer with responsible for the crude unit and a few other downstream units.

    • Sr. Eng. within the group of technical integrity / Design integrity
      Nov 2011 - Aug 2016 · 4 yrs 10 mos

      My tasks was related to process safety and technical integrity assessments.

  • PhD. Student at University of Bergen
    Aug 2006 - Oct 2011 · 5 yrs 3 mos