Career
Prior to his promotion in 2011, Halvorsen was Senior Vice President of Global Subsea Production Systems (2007), a division that handles subsea production systems in Europe, Africa, Canada and Asia. Halvorsen has also served as the Vice President og Subsea Systems Eastern Hemisphere (2004). His first director appointment, as Managing Director of Federal Maritime Commission Kongsberg Subsea AS, came in 1994 following Federal Maritime Commission Technologies´ purchase of Kongsberg Offshore in 1993.
Halvorsen earned his master´s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim (now called the Norwegian University of Science and Technology), and started his career with Kongsberg Offshore AS in 1980 as Technical Manager of Subsea Systems.
