Birger Skeie

Birger Skeie (1951 – 26 August 2009) was a Norwegian businessperson. He is best known as CEO of National Oilwell Varco in Norway and chairman of TTS Marine.

Career

He was born in Eiken, but later moved to Kristiansand. He was a second cousin of Bjarne Skeie, and cooperated with him in his business ventures.[1] At the time of death, Birger Skeie was the chair of TTS Marine and CEO of Skeie Technology and Skeie Drilling & Production. He was also the chair of NODE, Norsupply and Skeie Rig Management and a board member of TTS Sense.[2] He was formerly the CEO of Hydralift, which became National Oilwell Varco in 2002.[3] He left the leadership of National Oilwell Varco in Norway in 2006.[4] He died in August 2009 of a heart attack.[2]

gollark: Medicine is just very bodgey and unreliable hacky patches to the spaghetti code of life.
gollark: > as bad as it is to say, most of the deaths are people that are only alive from medicine artificially inflating life spans well beyond the designed parameters... is wanting to live longer a bad thing now? There are no "designed parameters" with humans, what with us being weird evolved systems, only "mostly works" ones, and we've been continually pushing those with stuff like, well, medicine.
gollark: The mortality rate of coronavirus is significantly higher than 1% or 2% or whatever if healthcare stuff gets overloaded. Which could happen, and I think is kind of in Italy.
gollark: The Earth isn't flat. It's nonexistent. r/noearthsociety
gollark: The flat moon, probably.

References
  1. Reinertsen, Rune Øidne (26 August 2009). "Birger Skeie er død". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 29 September 2009. Retrieved 30 August 2009.
  2. Salthe, Henrik Arnestad (26 August 2009). "Birger Skeie er død" (in Norwegian). Oilinfo. Retrieved 30 August 2009.
  3. "Bjarne Skeie satser på nytt". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). 13 January 2004.
  4. "Ny Natoil-sjef". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). 7 November 2006.


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