Trond Unneland

Bio

Trond Unneland has over 20 years of domestic and international experience in exploration, petroleum engineering, offshore oil production operations, information technology and venture capital. Unneland began his professional career as a petroleum engineer with Statoil in Bergen, Norway, working in offshore oil production operations. After serving in various positions of increasing responsibility, he was then named vice president of information technology. Unneland joined Chevron in 2000 as technology account manager for Chevron Energy Technology Company. In 2004, he was named country manager for Chevron Denmark where he was responsible for leading all of the company's upstream operations. In 2006, he became country manager for Chevron Norway responsible for Chevron's upstream business. Unneland assumed his current position leading the venture capital team in 2007. The author of numerous articles on reservoir management and well dynamics, Unneland has been cited as an expert source in more than 90 international technical papers. He has been recognized three times by the Society of Petroleum Engineers for his service to the organization. Unneland is a board observer on Southwest Windpower, DynaPump and BrightSource. A native of Norway, Unneland has a Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering and a Master of Science in reservoir engineering from Stavanger University. He later received his doctorate in technical sciences from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has served as a visiting scholar at Stanford University and has worked for the Norwegian industry attaché at the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in San Francisco, California.