Mark van Aerssen

Manager Havstjerne CCS Storage Project

Norway

About

Accomplished international project manager and drilling specialist with 17+ years of operational experience in the upstream oil and gas industry across six countries with a proven track record of successfully delivering high stake and technically challenging projects with multidisciplinary teams: onshore, offshore, and subsea. Transferring this experience to play an active role in our energy transition.

Experience

  • Havstjerne CCS Project Manager at Harbour Energy
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Wintershall Dea (Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway · On-site)
    • Havstjerne CCS Project Manager
      Jul 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Project Manager
      Jan 2023 - Jun 2023 · 6 mos

  • Horisont Energi (Full-time · 1 yr)
    • Manager Errai CCS Project
      Mar 2022 - Dec 2022 · 10 mos

      Project Manager for the Errai CCS project offshore Norway

    • Manager D&W and Subsea Projects
      Jan 2022 - Feb 2022 · 2 mos

  • Wintershall Dea (4 yrs 6 mos)
    • Project Manager Early Phase Development
      Oct 2021 - Dec 2021 · 3 mos

      PM for a new subsea infill development project. Decided to play an active role in the energy transition and started with a new company.

    • Project Manager Subsea Infill Drilling Campaign
      Apr 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

      - Accountable for a multi-billion NOK infill subsea drilling project with subsurface, SPS and facilities scope. - Led a 30+ member multidisciplinary & international expert team and created a OneTeam project culture. - Continuously drove and communicated changes to de-risk the project and increase its economic robustness after project approval. - Restructured Simultaneous Operations (SIMOPS) with critical stakeholders reflecting on learnings from a severe incident and aligning with the company’s ALARP understanding.

    • Brage Wells Project Manager / Brage Drilling and Wells Manager
      Jul 2017 - Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      - As D&W manager, accountable for well delivery from DG1 to DG4 for two drilling campaigns (9 wells in total) and later as wells project manager, accountable for overall results of the 2nd drilling campaign. - Delivered both drilling campaigns with significant performance improvement and all nine wells below time and budget, including record-setting extreme Extended Reach wells (ERD). Campaign performance was a key enabler for extending the lifetime of the brownfield asset. - Promoted and fostered OneTeam culture across the asset (One Asset = OneTeam) in a cost-constrained and volatile environment. - Member of the drilling superintendent duty team for subsea and platform drilling and intervention operations.

  • Drilling Engineer at Wintershall Middle East GmbH
    Jul 2016 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr

    Developed a novel, more robust, and cost-efficient exploration well design for a national oil company (SPE paper presented at ADIPEC).