Kjetill Tungland

Managing Director

Trans Adratic Pipeline AG

Kjetil Tungland (born 1959) graduated from University of Oslo, Institute of Economics, in 1985. He joined Statoil in 1986, as macro economic analyst. In 1990, Tungland joined Statoil's Natural Gas Business and became manager of the market analysis department in 1993. From 1999 until 2003 Tungland held the position as Senior Vice President responsible for natural gas contract negotiations, marketing and development of Statoil's natural gas business in the South and Western European Continent.

In 2003 Tungland was posted to Istanbul working as Task Force Manager responsible for preparations of natural gas marketing in Turkey in partnership with Koç Holding and later became Statoil’s country manager for Turkey. From 2005 until 2007 he was Statoil’s country manager for business development in Iraq, living and working in Amman, Jordan. Tungland was then posted to Singapore and was responsible for developing StatoilHydro’s natural gas business in the Asian region where he has spent the last couple of years.

In April 2010, Tungland was appointed Managing Director for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline project, a Joint Venture project with EGL, Statoil and E.ON Ruhrgas. He is now based in Baar, Switzerland, the company’s headquar-ters.