A Different Kind of Meeting Room

This image wasn’t taken in a conference room. There’s no table, no screen, no whiteboard.

It was captured while looking west across Åmøyfjorden, where the fjord opens toward the North Sea, during a follow-up online meeting between Pål Erik Johannessen and Carl Thaemlitz at Newpark. The conversation continued as Pål Erik walked his dog, the daylight slowly giving way to evening.

And that says a lot about how Intelligent Mud Solutions works.

Operating globally means our work doesn’t follow traditional office hours or traditional office spaces. Early mornings are often dedicated to clients in the Eastern Hemisphere. Evenings are usually spent connecting with partners and teams in the West.

Between those hours, meetings happen wherever they make the most sense.

For IMS, “home office” isn’t a location. It’s a mindset.

Real-time fluid intelligence demands real-time engagement. Drilling operations run around the clock, and the insights that support well integrity, operational efficiency, and risk reduction must be available exactly when decisions are made.

That requires flexibility, trust, and a team willing to meet the world on its own schedule.

Sometimes that means joining a call from a desk.

Sometimes from a rig site.

And sometimes from the shoreline, looking west across Åmøyfjorden, toward the North Sea, bridging time zones with a leash in one hand and a cell phone in the other.

This is modern collaboration in the energy industry: connected, responsive, and unconstrained by geography.

The meeting room is wherever the conversation happens.

Because in a global operation, the most important thing isn’t where you are. It’s that you’re present.