"Innovator of the Year" Award

ODIM was selected from five strong finalists that have been presented in detail in ‘Sunnmørsposten' newspaper during the last few weeks. The readers of the newspaper have nominated the candidates for the award, whilst the jury has made a total appraisal of the nominees, focusing on innovation and the environment. The jury was comprised of Industrial Manager Idar Ulstein, Professor Annik Magerholm Fet and representatives from the banks: Nordea, Sparebanken Møre, Sparebank1 SMN, Ålesund Chamber of Commerce and Sunnmørsposten.

ODIM Smart AHTS is an anchor handling solution that is three times as effective as competing solutions in terms of capacity, economy, security and consideration for the environment. ODIM Smart AHTS is a complete automated system for anchor handling that addresses the oil companies' needs for cost-effective solutions for future prospecting and production drilling for oil and gas. The concept brings considerable efficiency gains in anchor handling operations and at the same time increases security for the vessel crews. Another advantage is the considerable reduction in the emissions of both CO2 and NOx.

ODIM Smart AHTS contributes to new and effective anchoring methods that lead to the greatly reduced consumption of fuel on drilling rigs. Based on calculations for just one rig for one year, this can lead to an increased value creation of between NOK 200 and 300 million, and reduced emissions of environmentally damaging gases, of up to 50.000 to 100.000 tonnes of CO2 and 1.000 to 2.000 tonnes of NOx. The reduction in CO2 emissions corresponds to the emissions from 15.000 to 30.000 cars per year.