Irene Rummelhoff

Executive Vice President
Equinor

Irene Rummelhoff has since 2018 served as EVP of Marketing, Midstream and Processing (MMP) at Equinor ASA and has been a member of the CEC since 2015. With more than 3600 employees worldwide, she has the responsibility for flow assurance, processing, and marketing of all Equinor’s products, including marketing of the Norwegian State’s natural gas and crude on the Norwegian continental shelf. This responsibility includes development of the company’s hydrogen and CCS value chains.

Between 2015 and 2018 she served as the EVP for Equinor’s New Energy Solutions. In that context she was instrumental in Equinor’s market-leading transition into the renewable energy field, ahead of all the other oil majors. She was tasked with forming a new division and driving the development of the Equinor’s strategy in renewable and alternative energy solutions, whereby she pushed for offshore wind and low carbon solutions such as carbon capture and storage and other related technologies, including hydrogen development.

From 2014 to 2022 Ms. Rummelhoff was a member and later Deputy Chair (2016) of the Board of Directors of Norsk Hydro, and as of March 2022 she is a member of the Board of Directors of Airbus.

Position:
Executive Vice President, Marketing, Midstream & Processing (MMP) since 17 August 2018
Year of birth: 1967
External offices: Member of the board of Airbus SE
Number of shares in Equinor ASA: 31,872 (as of 31 December 2023)
Loans from Equinor ASA: None

Experience: Rummelhoff joined Equinor in 1991. She has held a number of management positions within international business development, exploration, and the downstream business in Equinor. Her most recent position, which she held from June 2015, was as Executive Vice President New Energy Solutions (NES).

Education: Master’s degree in Petroleum geosciences from the Norwegian Institute of Technology.