As the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of DNV, Miklos Konkoly-Thege has clear goals. ‘It is our vision that by supporting our customers in their efforts to improve quality, safety and environmental performance, we can also enable them to realise their business objectives in general.

In helping our customers succeed, DNV will also become their preferred supplier and thus an even more accomplished company. Having spent the past 18 years in DNV, with wide experience in the industries it serves, Konkoly-Thege realises this is an ongoing task.

The way he views DNVs goals, Its all about quality and integrity, and making sure that all our services are the best in their scope and application. He explains, All companies subscribe to the importance of keeping their customers needs in focus. For us in DNV this means that we must strive to understand what is important to our customers, and identify how best DNV can help satisfy their needs.

Take for example the offshore industry. In response to changing market conditions, with the safety of offshore installations becoming ever more regulated, DNV is actively developing both new and existing services. In addition to our traditional class role, we offer clients a wide range of relevant services: from life-cycle risk management and integrity management to safety, environmental and human-factor consultancy.

Examples of the diverse services DNV provides to its clients across the industrial spectrum are included in this issue of DNV Forum. Says Konkoly-Thege, Our International approach, and the respect in which our offshore-related services are held, are well illustrated by the work we are undertaking in Brazil, where the oil company Petrobras is advancing even further its competence in ultra-deepwater exploration; and in the Gulf of Mexico, helping develop FPSOs for the unique sea and weather conditions met there.

Growing international competition throughout industry is emphasing the need to integrate safety, environmental and quality-related activities into production processes of all kinds.

For DNV says Konkoly-Thege, this means that the more our activities can be seen as part of the customers value-adding chain, the greater the impact of our work for safeguarding life, property and the environment. This way we can help realise DNVs vision as well as every customers business goals.