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Johnsen died on Wednesday night together with his family members round him, Equinor informed NTB.
– Arve Johnsen was not solely Statoil’s normal supervisor from 1972 to 1988, but additionally the corporate’s first worker. He based the corporate, formed a complete business and adjusted Norway, says Equinor’s CEO Anders Opedal.
Johnsen led Statoil from the corporate’s founding in 1972 till 1988, when he was pressured to depart the corporate after NOK 4 billion exceedances on the Mongstad refinery.
Arve Johnsen had a background within the Labor Occasion. He was the closest affiliate of Trade Minister Finn Lied within the first authorities of Trygve Bratteli. Along with Lied and the highly effective Ap nestor Jens Christian Hauge, who was additionally the primary chairman of Statoil, he helped to intently hyperlink Statoil with the get together’s insurance policies. He was a feared opponent of those that wished to restrict Equinor’s energy over the NCS, and may very well be cruel in the direction of them.
Statoil CEO Arve Johnsen photographed in 1984 (Picture: MORTEN WOLDSDAL)Awe
At Equinor immediately he’s seen as the important thing architect behind the corporate’s improvement and the sturdy place the corporate has acquired on the Norwegian continental shelf. It was underneath Johnsen’s management that most of the main fields at the moment producing on the NCS have been deliberate or commissioned.
Former CEO Eldar Sætre is amongst those that have praised Arve Johnsen and the significance he has had. He beforehand informed Dagens Næringsliv about his first assembly with Johnsen as a Statoil worker.
The article continues under the commercial– I used to be so in awe. It was massive. It was highly effective. Arve Johnsen was not solemn, however highly effective. He was the nice architect, the person with the constructing blocks, he was the visionary who would create all of it. And he was a well known man, Sætre mentioned in an interview with DN three years in the past.
Bjørn Vidar Lerøen was employed by Statoil for numerous years and labored intently with numerous the corporate’s prime managers. Lerøen has additionally written numerous books concerning the historical past of the corporate.
– I imagine Arve Johnsen is among the biggest neighborhood builders of the final century. I imagine there have been no alternate options to Arve Johnsen as the corporate’s first boss. He formed the event and construction of the corporate. He had an disagreeable parting with Mongstad. That would not have occurred immediately. He got here from his job as Secretary of State on the Ministry of Trade to chair the Labor Occasion’s Industrial Coverage Committee. Two years earlier than Statoil was based, the fee made a suggestion on the creation of a state oil firm. These turned the fundamental options of what Statoil turned, Lerøen tells Dagens Næringsliv.
Statoil CEO Arve Johnsen launches e-book in August 1988. In January 1988 he needed to resign as head of Statoil. Photographed in August 1988. Picture: Thoralf Olsen (Picture: Thoralf Olsen)Arve Johnsen has been an energetic social debater through the years, as much as and together with the previous couple of years. He was strongly against the merger between Statoil and Hydro, which turned identified in 2006. He was additionally not constructive concerning the identify change from Statoil to Equinor in 2018, believing it obscured what the corporate really did and the corporate’s reference to the Norwegian state.
The article continues under the commercial– Arve Johnsen was in opposition to the clipping of Statoil’s wings within the type of SDØE, which immediately is Petroro. Kåre Willoch was his foremost opponent. He was strongly against the primary try at an IPO. He was in opposition to the sale of the fuel stations, in opposition to the identify change and really vital of Helge Lund. However he accepted the merger with Hydro and the identify change. Nonetheless, he was not reconciled to the truth that Statoil was transferring away from the thought of a big built-in firm. He was a proponent of enormous firms that managed the complete worth chain. He was concerned in worldwide relations and was a powerful supporter of the EU. He was very pleased with the corporate, says Bjørn Vidar Lerøen, who additionally factors out that Arve Johnsen was involved about Statoil’s improvement within the European fuel market.
– Norway’s place on the European fuel market is essentially Arve Johnsen’s achieve, says Lerøen.
Arve Johnsen has been appointed Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for excellent service to the neighborhood.
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Statoil’s first boss, Arve Johnsen, has died
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