Helge Haugane is the Executive Vice President for Power in Equinor, a role he has had since November 2026.

Haugane joined Equinor in 2003 in a four-year corporate trainee program where he worked within oil trading, the natural gas division, Project Control and the Corporate Planning Unit working with the Statoil/Hydro merger in 2007.

After the merger, he took the role of Leading Advisor for Economic Analysis for upstream before heading the Analysis Unit in the Natural Gas segment. Helge relocated to London in 2011 to become Head of Business Control in Global Strategy and Business Development and in 2012 took the position of Vice President of Finance and Control for global strategy and business development, where he also held the position as the Managing Director for Equinor in the UK.

In 2014, Helge relocated to Houston where held the position of Vice President, Finance and Control for Equinor’s North American business. In 2017 he moved back to Norway and held the position as Vice President Finance and control for the MMP business area (Marketing, Midstream and Processing). In 2020 Helge took the position as Senior Vice President for Equinor’s gas and power trading.

Haugane holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance from the Norwegian School of Economics.