PROBABILITY OF FAILURE + TIME TO NEXT INSPECTION (2022)
Sculpture
98x35x30cm
Steel production pipe donated by worker at Norse Oilfield Services. (June 2021)
Dried clay from Barents Sea drill core. (Depth 439 m. 640528E 8176327N ) Donation from VBPR. (September 2020)
Drill core from former Oil company office building, Forus, Stavanger. (April 2021)
Books: Making good decisions, Reidar B. Bratvold, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2010Norges Evige Rikdom -Oljen, Gassen og Petrokronene, Arve Johnsen, Aschehoug 2008Petroleum Engineering, Boyun Guo, Gulf Professional Publishing 2007
INDUSTRIAL RECORDING [LOST COMPONENTS] (2023) Frottage on sandpaper 140x400cm
Flanges, valves and other components from drilling and production pipes, donation from Norse Offshore Service, Sola. (June 2021)
P80 Sandpaper
UNTITLED (2022)
Sculpture
60x60x50cm
Twisted metal fragment. Shaped in collaboration with worker at the offshore recycling station in station in Risavika (May 2021)
Sediments of grinded books from curriculum in Petroleum Engineering bought from student at UiS (April 2021)
LINK (2022)
Sculpture
Steel shackle. Collected from petroleum waste facility, Risavika, Rogaland (April 2021).
Share letter Saga Petroleum for 60 NOK, from 1981. Bought from online market (May 2021).
Sediments from Norwegian Shelf in the southern North Sea. (Area of shallows that may previously have been above sea level called Agderia.) Donation from Natural History Museum, Oslo (February 2020).
INDUSTRIAL RECORDING [Voids Amplified] (2023)
Videoloop with sound, 16:9
Sound recording from inside of empty oil depot, Fagerstrand, Viken (April 2022).
Twisted metal fragment recorded with motion amplification technology used for monitoring instabilities in petroleum installations.
Fragment from petroleum waste facility, Risavika, Rogaland (June 2021).
Other visuals courtesy of RDI Technologies and MLT A/S.
Photos: Annette Øvrelid/UiS
Exhibited at Museum of Archaeology, Stavanger, March 2023