Jannicke Nilsson has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer (COO) in Statoil ASA. She takes over the role from Anders Opedal, who will lead the development of Statoil's growing and increasingly important operations in Brazil as new country manager. Jannicke Nilsson will assume her new responsibilities on 1. December 2016, Anders Opedal will assume his responsibilities 15 January 2017. Nilsson will report to President and CEO Eldar Saetre with her office location being Stavanger, while Opedal will report to Lars Christian Bacher, executive vice president Development & Production International. His office location will be Rio de Janeiro. Current Brazil country manager Pal Eitrheim is appointed new chief procurement officer. He will be reporting to Margareth OEvrum, executive vice president TPD, and located out of Stavanger. Its not finally decided when Eitrheim will assume his new responsibilities. Jannicke Nilsson is currently senior vice president for COO operational performance projects, a role she has held since 1 August 2015. Jannicke joined the company in 1999 and has held a range of engineering, research, operational and leadership roles. Anders Opedal is currently executive vice president and chief operating officer, a role he has held since 1 April 2015. Anders joined Statoil in 1997 as a petroleum engineer in the Statfjord operations. He has held a variety of roles since then in drilling and well, procurement and projects. In 2010 he was appointed senior vice president of projects in TPD, responsible for Statoil's approximately NOK 300 billion project portfolio. Prior to joining Statoil, Anders worked in Schlumberger and Baker Hughes.