Ørjan Gjerde

CEO | M&A, Strategy, Business Development

📍 Sørnes, Rogaland, Norway🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Jun 2018
🌬️ The only AI-powered platform designed for wind farm development, construction, O&M, and decommissioning. 🌍 Whether you develop, build, operate, or decommission offshore or onshore wind farms, our platform is built for you. We empower developers, operators, OEMs, EPC contractors, and service providers to design, construct, operate, and decommission wind farms more efficiently, cost-effectively, and with greater ease. Let’s accelerate the future of clean energy together. 🌱 #WindEnergy #AI #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #CleanEnergy
Board Member
Sep 2014
THREE60 Energy is a leading energy services group who are delivering innovative asset management, engineering technology and energy transition solutions across the complete life-cycle. Operating across the UK, Europe, US, South America and Asia, the group offers solutions across oil and gas, onshore and offshore wind, carbon capture and storage, geothermal, nuclear, marine, defence and industrials.
early stageOil and Gas
Board Member
Sep 2014
RIDGE was founded in 2011 and is located in Stavanger and Bergen, Norway and as well as in Aberdeen, Scotland and in Singapore. Ridge is now part of the Three60 Energy group. RIDGE is a hi-end oil & gas engineering company consisting of a team of professional petroleum engineers with well construction, production, reservoir and geo engineering background. In addition to our inspired engineers, RIDGE includes an international network of affiliated specialist companies supporting our service. The main purpose of the company is to provide the oil & gas industry with objective and best-in-class well engineering support. We pride ourselves to assist our customers in reaching their goals through the highest quality advice and service. As of today, RIDGE has a large client portfolio of oil and oil-service companies. We work for more than 20 operators within the oil & gas segment. We currently employ more than 120 engineers and professionals (mainly M.Sc. Petroleum Engineers), searching out the highest value solutions for our customers. As part of the Three60 Energy group, and with our global cooperating companies, our network accesses to more than 500 professionals. RIDGE is registered in Achilles JQS (Achilles ID 29115).
mid stageOil & Energy
Board Member
Apr 2008
Vi leverer kvalifiserte kandidater til våre oppdragsgivere. Vi er til stede for kunder og medarbeidere. For å bidra til økt verdiskapning er hensikten å finne rett person til rett jobb, hvor ikke bare kvalifikasjonene stemmer, men også personligheten.
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2026
CEO & Founder
Jul 2026
Galdor Exploration was founded on 19 July 2026 at 08:20, exactly 60 years after the spudding of Norways first exploration well, marking a symbolic link between the origins of the Norwegian petroleum industry and a new generation of exploration. Galdor is a distinctive name with strong Nordic roots, evoking knowledge, wisdom, and the ability to recognize opportunities that others overlook. Derived from the Old Norse words galdr and galdur, the name is associated with wisdom expressed through words, knowledge and insight. Galdor Exploration combines decades of exploration experience across the Norwegian Continental Shelf and the broader North Sea Basin with access to premium subsurface data, advanced AI-enabled workflows, and multidisciplinary expertise to uncover geological and commercial opportunities that others have overlooked, underestimated, or left behind. Contact us at post@galdorexploration.no
early stageOil and Gas
2025
CEO & Founder
Oct 2025
Founded by @Ørjan Gjerde in 2025. We provide Executive advise and can take on interim or part time management positions related to Financing, Restructuring, M&A, General Management, Business Development. We also take on Board positions either as chair person or ordinary member.
2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
CONNECTING DOWNHOLE TO THE FUTURE With support in both Stavanger and Houston, Reelwell has developed pioneering technologies offering a step-change in well construction and production: DualLink is a Powered, Digital Network built into a drillpipe or tubular, delivering high-speed bi-directional data telemetry and power, reliably. Closing the loop between downhole and surface, DualLink improves well construction efficiency and reservoir placement and offers a new world of possibilities for the next generation of downhole tools and automation. DualPipe offers superior hole cleaning, improved ECD management and longer laterals. Expanding the operating envelope of current drilling methods, the technology ultimately lowers delivery costs and increases production.
2020
GM DNO North Sea/Managing Director DNO Norge
Apr 2020
Based in Stavanger, DNO Norge is a growth-oriented oil and gas company focused on mature established areas in Norway and the United Kingdom. The company has built an extensive portfolio of exploration licenses through licensing rounds, farm-ins and asset transactions. In addition, the company is an owner in assets in the development and production phases. DNO Norge AS is a subsidiary of DNO ASA, Norway’s oldest oil and gas company. Founded by a group of young, adventurous shipowners and industrial leaders in 1971 and later listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, DNO ASA today holds stakes in onshore and offshore licenses at various stages of exploration, development and production in the Middle East, the North Sea and West Africa. Since the start, DNO has continued to attract the type of people who are willing to take chances, venturing into new activities and new geographic areas, both onshore and offshore. A global mindset characterizes the company. Following forays into the Norwegian and UK sectors of the North Sea and later East and West Africa, DNO evolved into a significant Middle East player. In 2017, DNO ASA re-entered the Norwegian continental shelf through the acquisition of Origo Exploration. Through the 2019 acquisition of Faroe Petroleum, DNO ASA accessed a fully operating North Sea organization in Stavanger with activities in Norway, the UK and the Netherlands, forming the basis of DNO Norge today.
late stageOil and Gas
2018
Board Member
Jun 2018
🌬️ The only AI-powered platform designed for wind farm development, construction, O&M, and decommissioning. 🌍 Whether you develop, build, operate, or decommission offshore or onshore wind farms, our platform is built for you. We empower developers, operators, OEMs, EPC contractors, and service providers to design, construct, operate, and decommission wind farms more efficiently, cost-effectively, and with greater ease. Let’s accelerate the future of clean energy together. 🌱 #WindEnergy #AI #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #CleanEnergy
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