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A full house at the DOI 2024 conference debated challenges and opportunities in the energy industry
DK Media on Friday marked the annual publication of the yearbook for the oil, gas and wind industry, Danish Offshore Industry 2025 (DOI) by inviting the industry to a conference in Esbjerg.
For the first time, the conference was organized in collaboration with Business Esbjerg. Here were approx. 100 gathered at Musikhuset in Esbjerg to hear about challenges and opportunities within current topics in the energy industry.
- We have invited you to the conference because we have created the most beautiful magazine, and we want to celebrate that. We do this with a conference where the top of Danish offshore meet, network, exchange ideas and make new contacts. At the same time, we give them the opportunity to hear some excellent presenters make points about some topics, which I could hear many in the room saying: "I haven't really heard of this before," says owner of DK Medier, Claus G. Theilgaard.
This is the fourth time that DK Medier publishes the yearbook for the industry and thus invites to a DOI conference, after the company acquired DOI in 2020.
Hydrogen, CCS and AI on the program
The conference was divided into three parts, each of which focused on a current topic in the energy industry. Initially, Rasmus Bach Nielsen, board member and spokesperson for H2 Energy Europe, Søren Schmidt Thomsen, director of the Triangle Energy Alliance (TEA) and Dina Myrup Raabjerg, energy and supply spokesperson for the Conservative People's Party, debated the current challenges in unleashing the Danish potential before for the production of green hydrogen, where, for example, Ørsted has pulled the plug on several large PtX projects. Here, in particular, the politician had to listen to the prerequisites that have been set up for the realization of the Danish hydrogen infrastructure, where the realization of a pipeline for hydrogen to Germany has just been postponed by three years.
Subsequently there was another round of presentations and debate about infrastructure. This time about another key green technology, namely CCS – capture and storage of CO2. Here, Martin Peter Næsby, CEO of Dansk Offshore, Jens Kirketerp Jensen, CEO of ADP - EI and Esbern Hoch, CCS Business Development Denmark for TotalEnergies, each gave their views on the technology, which politicians have identified as a key to to reach Denmark's climate goals.
Last but not least, Emilie Lundblad, director of AI and automation at Hempel A/S, Jesper Smit, founder and CEO of Quali Drone ApS, Jonas Nibe, Sales Manager at ABB, and Frank Kjerstein, CEO at REBLADE, discussed if companies are each front-runners in the use of artificial intelligence, and if the industry as a whole is ready to seize the many opportunities that AI provides.
- I believe that it was a conference that was very much about innovation. I hope that people take home innovative ideas, such as the use of AI for all that it can do. And perhaps also that some of them open their eyes to it and say: "So we have to go home in the organization and use it to become more efficient and better," says Claus G. Theilgaard.
