From strategic initiative to a team delivering real work.
SDC turns AI and digitalization initiatives in oil and gas into a clear scope, an executable plan and defined work for a delivery team. When the project needs a leader, Kristian Solem leads the team through implementation.
Specialist experience in project leadership for digital transformation and improvements in drilling and wells. Based in Stavanger, working with teams across Norway.
Bring SDC in when the initiative is important, but not yet executable:
- The outcome is agreed, but scope, ownership and sequence are unresolved.
- Specialists, technical teams and vendors work from different definitions.
- A pilot exists, but the path to an adopted work process is unclear.
- One person needs to be accountable for structure, decisions and delivery.
Work the team can actually execute.
An engagement should leave behind more than recommendations. Depending on the mandate, that normally includes:
- A defined outcome with measurable success criteria
- A clear scope with explicit boundaries
- Work packages, dependencies and priorities
- Named owners and decision rights
- A delivery roadmap with near-term milestones
And, when required, a team led through implementation.
One line from intent to implementation.
Define
Clarify the decision, the operating need, the constraints and the result that must be achieved — so everyone works from the same definition.
Structure
Break the initiative into deliverables, decisions, dependencies and owners, and set the team up to deliver against a practical sequence.
Lead
Run the delivery rhythm, keep decisions moving and align operational, technical and commercial stakeholders until the work is completed.
Embed
Confirm the result works in the real operating context, establish ownership and hand over a capability the organisation can operate.
AI and digitalization in drilling and wells.
Transformation in D&W is not a generic technology issue. It sits inside safety-critical operations, engineering workflows, live data, specialist vendors and formal decision gates. SDC understands that context and translates between operational specialists, AI and data teams and leadership.
- Digital well planning and engineering workflows
- Real-time decision support and digital twins
- Data-driven operational improvement
- AI product strategy and implementation leadership
- Adoption of new tools in existing ways of working
Client recommendation.
“SDC delivers excellent project management by setting clear goals and breaking them down into distinct deliverables. They keep stakeholders informed, create progress and drive effective change management to engage people.”
The person leading the work.
Kristian Solem works where oil and gas operations, digital products and project delivery meet. His background includes AI implementation, product strategy and digitalization in drilling and wells. He is brought in to turn an important initiative into executable work and, when needed, lead the team responsible for delivering it.
Have an initiative that must become executable?
Send three to five lines on the initiative, where it is stuck and what must be delivered. Kristian will reply directly.