History
1976: Norwegian Underwater Institute (NUI) is established by the Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Technical Research (NTNF), and Det Norske Veritas (DNV). NUI will work within diving medicine, diving technology and testing of subsea equipment.
1982: NUI is changed to a foundation called the Norwegian Underwater Technology Centre (Nutec), with Statoil, Norsk Hydro and Saga Petroleum as founders, in addition to NTNF and DNV.
1985: Nutec reorganises to become a limited company (Nutec AS) owned by Statoil, Norsk Hydro and Saga Petroleum. The business area is expanded to include safety training.
1998: Nutec AS splits up into two new companies: Nutec AS working within safety- and emergency training, and NUI AS (Norwegian Underwater Intervention AS) with the product areas Base support & Operations, Technology, and Hyperbaric services and Human research.
2003: NUI's product range is restricted to Contingency reception for hyperbaric rescue units, Performance/Physical testing and Research and development, under the collective term “Work under water”.
