Konciv Plants Its Flag in Aberdeen, Opening a New Chapter for the Norwegian Software Company in the UK

Stavanger, Norway — May 6, 2026. Konciv today announced its expansion into the United Kingdom with the establishment of an office in Aberdeen, the long-standing capital of the UK's offshore oil and gas industry. The move marks the company's second physical presence outside Norway and signals a deliberate doubling-down on its core mission: helping oil and gas service companies run leaner, smarter, and more profitable operations.

For a B2B SaaS business that has spent the past several years quietly building a strong foothold among Norwegian oilfield services operators, the leap across the North Sea is less a pivot than a logical next step.

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A bet on oil and gas — at a moment when many are hedging

While much of the energy conversation has shifted toward transition narratives, Konciv's expansion is grounded in a clear-eyed view that hydrocarbons remain central to the global energy mix for the foreseeable future. The numbers reinforce that view: the global oil and gas industry is projected to grow from USD 6.2 trillion in 2025 to USD 8 trillion by 2032, a compound annual growth rate of 3.8%.

Yet for the service companies that keep the sector running, the operating environment has rarely been more demanding. Enverus Intelligence Research notes that 2026 is shaping up to be a year where pricing volatility meets tighter margins across oil and gas, leaving little room for operational inefficiency. Deloitte's 2026 outlook reaches a similar conclusion, identifying cost pressures and the scaling of digital platforms to drive operational excellence and efficiency as defining themes for the year ahead.

It is precisely that pressure that Konciv believes plays to its strengths. "We continue to believe in oil and gas, and we are continuing to invest in the products and the people that help service companies in this industry run better," said Henrik Heggland, CEO of Konciv. "But belief is not the same as complacency. Margins are squeezed, customer expectations are higher than ever, and the cost of inefficiency keeps going up. Our job is to give operators the operational backbone they need to compete on cost, quality, and delivery — and to do it without adding administrative overhead."

Why Aberdeen, and why now

Aberdeen has been the natural choice from the moment Konciv began drawing up its international roadmap. The city has long been characterised as the "oil capital" of Scotland, the United Kingdom, and Europe, and the energy industry in and around Aberdeen supports an estimated half a million jobs. It is the operational nerve centre of the UK Continental Shelf and home to the supply chain that services it.

The cultural and industrial parallels with Stavanger are striking, and well-documented. A long-running comparative study by IRIS and MIT's Industrial Performance Center described Stavanger and Aberdeen as the two key gateways to the North Sea oil and gas province, developed under strikingly similar global market conditions and geotechnical environments since the late 1960s. Both regions claim, with some justification, the title of Europe's oil capital.

That shared DNA matters commercially. Cross-North-Sea collaboration between the two clusters has been deepening for years — from a formal partnership between Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and the University of Stavanger covering education and research, with a particular focus on North Sea oil and gas, through to the dense web of Norwegian companies that already operate from Aberdeen and the British operators with substantial activity in Rogaland.

Konciv is not arriving cold. The company has already secured a small group of beachhead customers in the Aberdeen area, won on the strength of its terminal management, asset, rental, maintenance, and personnel modules. The new office is intended to convert that early traction into a proper market position.

"The first conversations with customers in Aberdeen made it obvious that we weren't really crossing a border — we were extending the home market," Henrik said. "Stavanger and Aberdeen have been working with each other for half a century. Our software was built for the way these companies operate, and that's true on both sides of the North Sea."

A sales-led entry, supported by Norway

Konciv is taking a deliberately lean approach to the launch. Rather than transplanting a large team, the company is opening its search for a UK-based sales executive who will spearhead the establishment in Aberdeen. The hire will work hand-in-glove with Konciv's headquarters in Tananger, which will provide product, implementation, customer success, and engineering support to UK customers from day one.

"We are looking for somebody who knows the Aberdeen market, knows the service companies, and wants to build something," Henrik said. "The Norway organisation is going behind this person with everything we have. The idea isn't to set up a small island in the UK — it's to give our UK customers the same Konciv experience that our Norwegian customers get, with somebody on the ground who lives in their world."

The decision to lead with sales reflects Konciv's read of where customer demand is heading. Recent McKinsey work on the energy sector indicates that companies which began investing in digital systems and operational resilience earlier are coping better with the current pressures and are less reactive to cost and policy shifts. For oil and gas service companies, the implication is straightforward: the operators that modernise their execution platforms now will be in a stronger position when the next cycle turns.

Looking forward

Konciv's entry into the UK comes at a moment when Aberdeen itself is in transition — still the UK's oil and gas capital, but increasingly positioned as a broader energy and technology hub. The company sees room to serve both that legacy and what comes next: many of the operational disciplines its software is built around — asset management, warehousing, rental, maintenance, personnel — translate directly into adjacent offshore segments.

For now, the focus is squarely on getting Aberdeen right.

"This is the first step, not the destination," Henrik said. "Get the first hire right, get the early customers' results right, and the rest of the strategy takes care of itself. Aberdeen is exactly where Konciv needs to be."