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Noise-induced hearing loss is the world’s most prevalent and permanent occupational
disease. Workers on offshore oil platforms and other extreme environments face the risk of
not only permanent hearing loss from exposures to high levels of hazardous noise over
extended periods of time, but also challenges in maintaining adequate levels of speech
communication and situational awareness, which are essential to maintaining safety.
“This project aligns well with Statoil’s commitment to preventing accidents and our goal of
zero personal injuries on the job,” said Eli Aamot, Vice President for the research program
at Statoil. “This is a very important step towards gaining full control of noise exposure for
our workers on offshore platforms, and providing them with advanced hearing protection
and communication solutions that will help keep them safe.”
The partnership will harness SINTEF and Nacre’s success in intelligent hearing protection
and communication technologies, including the QUIETPRO® intelligent hearing system.
QUIETPRO is deployed operationally around the globe, including U.S., NATO and
Scandinavian armed forces.
“SINTEF is committed to technology for a better society, and has a rich history of scientific
research and development of intelligent hearing protection and situational awareness
solutions,” said Dr. Odd Kr. Pettersen, research director at SINTEF. “This partnership will
help solve the challenge workers experience in extreme noise environments and protect
them from hazardous noise in a more innovative way.”
“Nacre’s QUIETPRO has been successfully deployed in some of the harshest and most
challenging noise environments worldwide,” said Chris Humphrey, Vice President and
General Manager for Sperian Hearing Protection, LLC, consisting of Nacre and Howard
Leight®. “We are delighted to be working with Statoil and SINTEF on this important project,
and building upon the QUIETPRO hearing protection and communication platform to provide
new and innovative hearing safety solutions for the Oil and Gas industry.”
About Statoil
Statoil is an international energy company with operations in 40 countries. Building on more
than 35 years of experience from oil and gas production on the Norwegian continental shelf,
Statoil is committed to accommodating the world's energy needs in a responsible manner,
applying technology and creating innovative business solutions. Statoil operates 39
producing oil and gas fields, and is one of the world's largest net sellers of crude oil.
Headquartered in Norway with 30,000 employees worldwide, and are listed on the New York
and Oslo stock exchanges.
Contact:
• Heidi Bente Hoel, Statoil ASA, +47 926 91 002, hbho@statoil.com
About SINTEF
SINTEF is the largest independent research organization in Scandinavia, with about 2.100
employees. SINTEF is a broad-based, multi-disciplinary research company with international
top-level expertise in technology, natural science, medicine and social science. Every year,
SINTEF supports the development of 2,000 or so Norwegian and overseas companies via
research and development activity. www.sintef.com
Contact:
• Dr. Odd Kr. Pettersen, SINTEF, +47 920 62 610, odd.k.pettersen@sintef.no
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