Our Teams

Subsurface & Reservoir Engineering

InflowControl offer extensive reservoir simulation support and consulting from our broad experienced subsurface and reservoir engineering team.

Our Subsurface & Reservoir Engineering team host highly experienced petroleum and reservoir engineering specialists located both at the HQ-office in Norway and regionally around the globe. This includes inflow control technology subject matter experts (SME’s) within modelling, reservoir management and advanced completion design. The team is pioneering in ICD/AICD/AICV® technology applications and has developed leading modelling techniques which are applied globally.

We deliver high value technical services when designing our inflow control technology to be deployed in wells across a variety of reservoir types and operating conditions. We value collaboration and teamwork with our clients and peers as these are key success factors required to deliver exceptional results for our mission of making better well for our clients. Our passion and energy drive our entrepreneurial spirit to challenge the status quo with open mind and focus to innovate new solution and curve a new path to resolve new challenges and change the oil industry.

Research & Development

InflowControl’s in-house R&D team continuously work on improving our reservoir management technologies. The team performs testing to advance our technologies for improving oil recovery by reducing gas and water from a variety of reservoirs and this includes flow loop, erosion and drilling mud testing.

Innovation, accuracy, focus, and competence are success factors in the R&D department. The R&D department is based in InflowControl’s HQ-office in Norway, where we have industry leading development and test facilities for inflow control devices. In the advanced R&D test lab we can perform flow loop testing, erosion testing, drill/mud testing, and qualification tests for customers in accordance with industry standards. The R&D department consists of a strong team of development engineers with expertise in theoretical and experimental fluid dynamics, which always work to improve and continuously optimize our products to ensure we are Making Better Wells for our customers.

Engineering and Manufacturing

The department consist of a highly professional, diversified, and experienced team that supports the company with engineering power such as product development, prototype design, lab and test equipment, manufacturing engineering and AICV® screen design. 

Competence, accuracy, quality, and ability to implement are success factors in the Engineering department. The Engineering department is an important link between internal departments, external partners, and suppliers. The department consist of a highly professional, diversified, and experienced team that supports the company with engineering power such as product development, prototype design, lab and test equipment, manufacturing engineering and AICV® screen design. Our engineering team uses powerful and leading 3D CAD, PDM and finite element analysis software in their daily work. The Engineering department is based in our HQ in Porsgrunn, Norway. 

Quality, accuracy, focus, and efficiency are key factors in our Manufacturing & Supply Chain department. Our manufacturing & Supply Chain team have all this plus much more which they use in their daily work when manufacturing InflowControl’s products. The manufacturing department has modern, dedicated manufacturing tools and equipment in-house at our HQ facility. The manufacturing and supply chain team consist of experienced, and dedicated personnel with a passion to support our customers. The team is responsible for the complete value chain from sourcing raw materials and components, warehouse management, manufacturing and assembly, factory acceptance testing and shipping the final products to our customers. 

Management

Dr. Vidar Mathiesen

Dr. Ing. Vidar Mathiesen is the CEO and one of the founders of InflowControl. He has been head of technical research support at Statoil’s research center and has extensive experience from innovation and product development, qualification, delivery and production, installation and evaluation of inflow control as Leading Research Scientist at Statoil. Vidar has written a number of publications published in international journals and conferences, he has a number of patents in the field and has received several innovation awards. He is one of the inventors of both the AICV® and the Statoil’s AICD – the RCP. He was nominated for the World Oil Innovative Thinker Award 2021.

Bjørnar Werswick

Bjørnar Werswick is COO and co-founder of InflowControl. He has 25 years’ experience in innovation, product development and design in addition to qualification, manufacturing and installation of inflow control technology from Norsk Hydro, Equinor and InflowControl. He also has extensive experience in mechanical engineering, material selection, manufacturing technology and well completion. Bjørnar has submitted several patents/patent applications in this field. Bjørnar is also director of the board in InflowControl. He earned a B.Eng. degree in mechanical engineering from University of South-Eastern Norway in 1997.

Brent Brough

Brent Brough is CCO of InflowControl with over 20 years of international experience. Having lived in Canada, Russia, UK, Norway and UAE, Brent has a track record of managing and leading global teams from both large and small technology companies which delivered growth. He has board director experience in O&G tech and venture backed start-up companies. Earning an MBA in 2012 from Warwick Business School – specialized in Global Energy – and in 1999 graduated from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Chemical Engineering.

Maria Tho

Maria Tho is CFO of InflowControl and has more than 15 years of experience from senior finance and strategy positions with multinational and national enterprises. With a cross-industry experience including technology, banking, finance, travel, retail and more she has worked with several companies experiencing high levels of organic and inorganic growth. She earned a master’s degree in Professional Accountancy from the Institute of BI Norwegian School of Management in 2008 and a bachelor’s degree in Auditing from Oslo University College in 2003.

Dr. Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail

Dr. Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail is CTO of InflowControl with more than 20 years of global experience within advanced completions, petroleum engineering and research & development. He has extensive experience in designing and modeling autonomous and passive nozzle completions and has written a number of publications published in international journals and conferences. Dr Mohd Ismail holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Leeds, UK and was Distinguished Lecturer within SPE for inflow control technology disciplines in 2018/2019.