Norwegian technology company Control Cutter has appointed Steve Louis as Group Chief Commercial Officer and Managing Director of the US region.

In a LinkedIn post shared this week, Louis stated he “welcomes the opportunity to work with the talented team at our US facility in Broussard, Louisiana, and with my counterparts in Norway, the UK and Brazil.”

Louis continued, “I also look forward to the engaging with the many clients, subcontractors, and vendors who I have has the honour of working with over the last decade to address the growing decommissioning backlog in both the Gulf of America and Pacific.”

Louis joins the team with nearly 25 years of experience in offshore EPCI, subsea construction, and decommissioning, including senior leadership roles at TechnipFMC, Subsea 7, EMAS, and Promethean Decom. He is also the Chairman of the Offshore Network Decommissioning & Abandonment GOA Conference. 

Bernt Arne Breistein, Group CEO of Control Cutter, said, "By combining the Group Chief Commercial Officer and Regional Managing Director roles in one position based in the United States, we put commercial decision-making closer to our customers while keeping strategies aligned across all our regions, the US, Norway, the UK, Brazil and beyond, as we grow. Steve's track record in decommissioning is exactly what this role calls for, and we are delighted to have him on board."

Control Cutter is a service provider which houses a portfolio of patented cutting tools for decommissioning, including conductors, casings, anchor chains, risers, umbilicals and flowlines. The company has bases in the UK, Norway, Brazil, and the US.