At the end of the year, StatoilHydro had 29,500 employees. Eleven thousand of them work outside Norway.
The merger resulted in almost 5,000 employees being transferred from Hydro to the new company.
Between February and September 2007, an extensive staffing process was carried out.
This gave the company the option of selecting the best for the job and the individual employees a good opportunity to influence their choice of a new job in the merged company.
StatoilHydro is an expertise-based company in which 54.9% of employees in the parent company have university, college or university education, and 21.2% have craft certificates.
StatoilHydro ASA is Norway's biggest company for apprentices and its training of skilled workers maintains a stable and high level.
Since the merger, the number of apprentices has increased to 316, spread over the different discipline areas.
