At Ocean Oasis, we get frustrated at seeing increased headlines on water scarcity and droughts. Split between Norway and the Canary Islands in Spain, we see the ocean through the lens of abundance. It holds one of the answers to solving water challenges. What if we could reimagine desalination to unlock abundant, chemical-free, cheap and renewably powered water production? This purpose powers our team forwards everyday to build, refine and eventually scale our sustainable desalination innovation.
We believe water abundance is possible
At Ocean Oasis, we get frustrated at seeing increased headlines on water scarcity and droughts. Split between Norway and the Canary Islands in Spain, we see the ocean through the lens of abundance. It holds one of the answers to solving water challenges.
What if we could reimagine desalination to unlock abundant, chemical-free, cheap and renewably powered water production? This purpose powers our team forwards everyday to build, refine and eventually scale our sustainable desalination innovation.
About the Ocean Oasis team
The Ocean Oasis team is passionate about delivering sustainable desalination. Combining Norwegian oil & gas experience from the past with a vision towards water abundance in the future, we are building out our beachhead market with a desalination project in the Canary Islands. From inventors to business and finance leaders, from environmental engineers to hydrodynamics specialists and mechanics, we believe it requires multiple people and skillsets to build and scale an innovation.
Our team is uniting the best hearts and minds to rethink desalination.
Motivated by the importance of access to clean and abundant fresh water and the knowledge that conventional seawater desalination has a large local and global environmental footprint, the Ocean Oasis team is passionate about delivering affordable and sustainable desalination.
Combining Norwegian oil & gas experience from the past with a vision of water abundance in the future, we are targeting our beachhead market. First with a full-scale pilot tested in Gran Canaria in 2023 and 2024, now with our first commercial pilot, which will deliver water to an existing desalination plant, then from 2027 with commercial fleets of buoys throughout the Canary Islands.
From inventors to business and finance leaders, environmental engineers to hydrodynamics specialists and mechanics, we believe it requires multiple people and skillsets to build and scale an innovation.
Our Core Team
Thomas B. Johannessen
CTO, Co-founder, Inventor
Thomas B. Johannessen, is the inventor of Ocean Oasis. Thomas holds a PhD in Hydrodynamics from Imperial College. He has a long track record in the offshore and maritime industries and academia in Norway and abroad.
Kristine B. Fredriksen is an impact driven business leader. She founded and led an incubator for hardware-focused young technology firms. Kristine has an MSc from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Boston University.
Sebastian Feimblatt is an international energy and finance expert. He has offshore wind business experience from Ørsted and consulting experience from KPMG. Sebastian holds an MSc from Pontificial University of Comillas ICAI.
Chair of the Board
Chief Strategy Officer
Grieg Maritime Group
Thomas B. Johannessen
CTO, Co-founder, Inventor
Sebastian Feimblatt
COO, Deputy CEO, Co-founder
Kristine B. Fredriksen
CEO, Co-founder
Thea Messel
Founder and General Partner
Unconventional Ventures
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Do you want a career with purpose and to say you played a role in solving water challenges? Please reach out for further information on career opportunities with us or more about Ocean Oasis.