ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses how Norwegian firms and Norwegian competence developed a large presence in the Brazilian offshore supply market. Since Brazil and Norway opened up for oil operations at the same time, and for long periods have had a parallel development, Norwegian companies’ success in Brazil indicates that from the early 1990s the Norwegian supply industry had reached a level where a number of companies were leaders in various sub-segments of the industry. The Brazilian market was also becoming very important for companies with Norwegian origin which had moved out of Norway, but which helped put a ‘Norwegian stamp’ on the Brazilian oil industry.
