PUNE (TIP): Consulting, technology and outsourcing services provider Capgemini today announced that Capgemini Norge AS, has signed a major agreement with Statoil ASA, a Fortune 50 global energy company engaged in oil and gas production, headquartered in Norway. The relationship will see Capgemini managing and transforming Statoil’s IT general business applications portfolio to support its plans for international growth and promote a performance based culture.

The new agreement, with a potential duration of 10 years, strengthens and supplements the existing partnership between Statoil and Capgemini. The contract intends to enable Statoil to introduce more innovative solutions for business support to upstream oil and gas processes leveraging Capgemini’s global sector capabilities. Capgemini will provide application development and maintenance services for solutions based on SAP software, as well as for collaboration and information management applications and maintenance of IT platforms.