Anders Opedal
Executive Vice President.
To take over as CEO from 2 November 2020
External offices: None.
Year of birth: 1968.
Position: Executive Vice President.
Number of shares in Equinor ASA: 27,614 (as of December 31, 2019)
Loans from Equinor: None
Experience: Opedal joined Equinor in 1997 as a petroleum engineer in the Statfjord operations. He previously held the position as Executive Vice President , Technology, Projects and Drilling (TPD). He has held a range of positions in Equinor in Drilling and well, Procurement and projects. He served as Chief Procurement Officer in Equinor from 2007-2010. In 2011, he took on the role as Senior Vice President for Projects in Technology, Projects and Drilling (TPD) responsible for Equinor’s approximately NOK 300 billion project portfolio.
He served as Equinor’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer before taking the role as Senior Vice President for Development & Production International, Brazil. His most recent position, which he held from August 2018, was Executive Vice President for Development & Production Brazil. Previously, he worked for Schlumberger and Baker Hughes.
Education: MBA from Heriot-Watt University and Master's degree in Engineering (sivilingeniør) from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in Trondheim.
Family relations: No family relations to other members of the Corporate Executive Committee, the Board of Directors or the Corporate Assembly.
Other matters: Opedal is a Norwegian citizen and resident in Norway.