Headquartered at DTU and collaborating closely with CERE, the national center has strong involvement from Maersk Oil and the other partners of the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) both in terms of funding and joint projects. Still, Maersk Oil will continue its involvement in CERE activities, according to Dr. Niels Lindeloff, Lead Reservoir Engineer, Corporate Technology & Innovation:
“The two centers will have each their natural role. While the national center will always strive to push things towards implementation, CERE will be more academic. Once in a while you encounter problems so complex that you want to ask somebody with a narrow focus on exactly this issue. This may not happen often, but it is essential to know that when you are in this situation, you can find the right expert. This is one of the great strengths of CERE.”
“Another strong asset is the continuous success of CERE in attracting talents from across the globe. As a Danish company we depend on a core of Danish employees to maintain continuity, but we are also highly dependent on international talent. If you want to recruit people with outstanding knowledge of a specific topic, obviously you cannot limit yourself to one nationality,” says Niels Lindeloff.