NORWAY · NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
Norway oil & gas data In testing
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate publishes what it holds on every wellbore, field, and licence offshore Norway. Petrora mirrors it nightly, joins it, and serves it as pages, an API, and connector tools, in the Directorate's own units: metres and standard cubic metres.
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- 9,876
- wellbores · 2,201 exploration
- 142
- fields · 102 producing
- 245.9
- million Sm³ o.e. sold, last 12 reported months
- 536
- active licences of 1,813 granted
- 8,543
- cores
- 41,515
- formation tops
- 104K
- palynology slides · 3,919 thin sections
- 10,453
- well documents, linked
SODIR FACTPAGES · LOADED NOV 5, 2026 · PRODUCTION REPORTED THROUGH AUG 2026
Drawing the shelf…
Open the map →North Sea 7,920 · Norwegian Sea 1,411 · Barents Sea 545 wellbores
The shelf since 1966
Wellbores drilled, by year
Exploration and development wellbores by the year each was entered.
ExplorationDevelopment
Oil equivalents sold, by year
Saleable oil, gas, NGL, and condensate in the Directorate's oil equivalents, summed from the monthly field figures; the most in one year was 264.4 in 2004.
Million Sm³ o.e.
What is here
- Wells →
9,876 ON FILE
Every wellbore since 1966, with what is on file for each: tops, cores and core photos, cuttings, fluid samples, logs, documents.
- Map →
9,876 WELLBORES PLACED
Every wellbore over the field and discovery outlines. Filter to the wells with cores or a top in one formation.
- Cores →
8,543 ON FILE
One row per core: interval, wellbore, operator, and whether core samples are listed as available. Filter by the unit cored.
- Core photos →
22,489 PHOTOGRAPHS
The Directorate's photographs of cored intervals. Open a well, then Samples and tests, to step through them core by core.
- Fluid samples →
1,073 ON FILE
Oil, gas, condensate, and water samples from drill-stem and wireline tests.
- Thin sections →
3,919 ON FILE
Every thin section the Directorate holds, by wellbore and depth.
- Palynology slides →
103,922 ON FILE
Every slide by depth, the material it was made from, and the laboratory code on it.
- Drill-stem tests →
1,187 ON FILE
Test intervals with pressures, rates, densities, and gas-oil ratio.
- Formations →
183 ON FILE
Groups, formations, and members: where each is met, how deep, and how much core was cut in it.
- Fields →
142 ON FILE
Production by field and month, licensees with their shares, and the Directorate's reserve estimates.
- Discoveries →
650 ON FILE
What has been found and where it stands: producing, in planning, or unlikely to be developed.
- Companies →
1,045 ON FILE
Operators and licensees: what each holds today and what it has drilled.
- Licences →
1,813 ON FILE
Production licences since 1965 with ownership history and Petroleum Register messages.
Largest fields
MILL SM³ O.E. SOLD · 12 MONTHS THROUGH AUG 2026
TrollEquinor Energy AS
43.7
Johan SverdrupEquinor Energy AS
39.4
Johan CastbergEquinor Energy AS
10.5
Ormen LangeA/S Norske Shell
8.69
OsebergEquinor Energy AS
8.5
ÅsgardEquinor Energy AS
7.96
SnøhvitEquinor Energy AS
7.4
Gullfaks SørEquinor Energy AS
7.14
Most-cored formations
METRES OF CORE CUT IN THE FORMATION
Tilje Fm81 wellbores
5,766 m
Ness Fm117 wellbores
5,407 m
Tarbert Fm105 wellbores
4,341 m
Sognefjord Fm56 wellbores
3,947 m
Garn Fm110 wellbores
3,940 m
Ile Fm92 wellbores
3,629 m
Hugin Fm86 wellbores
3,553 m
Skagerrak Fm76 wellbores
3,160 m
Latest wellbores
BY ENTRY DATE
| Wellbore | Purpose | Operator | Field | Entered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30/4-U-2 | Shallow gas | Equinor Energy AS | — | Nov 3, 2026 |
| 7220/5-EB-1 Y2H | Production | Equinor Energy AS | Johan Castberg | Nov 2, 2026 |
| 35/11-B-11 BH | Production | Equinor Energy AS | Fram | Nov 1, 2026 |
| 6407/7-A-21 H | Production | Equinor Energy AS | Njord | Oct 31, 2026 |
| 34/10-C-18 C | Production | Equinor Energy AS | Gullfaks | Oct 31, 2026 |
| 35/6-7 S | Wildcat | Vår Energi ASA | — | Oct 30, 2026 |
| 25/2-S-4 CH | Production | Aker BP ASA | Hugin Satellitter | Oct 29, 2026 |
| 25/2-H-2 Y1H | Production | Aker BP ASA | — | Oct 28, 2026 |
| 30/11-W-4 CH | Observation | Aker BP ASA | — | Oct 26, 2026 |
| 25/2-S-4 BH | Observation | Aker BP ASA | Hugin Satellitter | Oct 22, 2026 |
Petroleum Register
LATEST MESSAGES · AS FILED, IN NORWEGIAN
The Petroleum Register is Norway's public record of rights in production licences. Every transfer of a share, change of operator, mortgage, extension, and lapse is entered there with its date. The Directorate publishes it in Norwegian only, so each entry is shown in its own words with a link to read it in English.
Nov 2, 2026 · PL 318 B · Change of operator · DOC 20338
Operatørskapet er overført fra Equinor Energy AS til Vår Energi ASA i henhold til vedtaksbrev fra Energidepartementet datert 28.09.2026, jf. petroleumsloven § 3-7 andre ledd.
Nov 2, 2026 · PL 318 · Change of operator · DOC 20337
Operatørskapet er overført fra Equinor Energy AS til Vår Energi ASA i henhold til vedtaksbrev fra Energidepartementet datert 28.09.2026, jf. petroleumsloven § 3-7 andre ledd.
Nov 2, 2026 · PL 318 C · Change of operator · DOC 20339
Operatørskapet er overført fra Equinor Energy AS til Vår Energi ASA i henhold til vedtaksbrev fra Energidepartementet datert 28.09.2026, jf. petroleumsloven § 3-7 andre ledd.
Nov 2, 2026 · PL 269 · Change of operator · DOC 20336
Operatørskapet er overført fra Equinor Energy AS til Vår Energi ASA i henhold til vedtaksbrev fra Energidepartementet datert 28.09.2026, jf. petroleumsloven § 3-7 andre ledd.
Nov 2, 2026 · PL 318 D · Change of operator · DOC 20340
Operatørskapet er overført fra Equinor Energy AS til Vår Energi ASA i henhold til vedtaksbrev fra Energidepartementet datert 28.09.2026, jf. petroleumsloven § 3-7 andre ledd.
Oct 30, 2026 · PL 090 K · Transfer of a licence or a share in one · DOC 20328
Vår Energi ASA har overdratt sin 40 % andel i tillatelsen til Equinor Energy AS. Iht. skjøte er gjennomføringsdato 30.10.2026 og virkningsdato 01.01.2026.
Oct 30, 2026 · PL 1179 · Transfer of a licence or a share in one · DOC 20329
Vår Energi ASA har overdratt en 5 % andel i tillatelsen til Equinor Energy AS. Iht. skjøte er gjennomføringsdato 30.10.2026 og virkningsdato 01.01.2026.
Oct 30, 2026 · PL 1177 B · Transfer of a licence or a share in one · DOC 20320
Equinor Energy AS har overdratt en 15 % andel i tillatelsen til Aker BP ASA. Iht. skjøte er gjennomføringsdato 30.10.2026 og virkningsdato 20.03.2026.
Oct 30, 2026 · PL 586 · Transfer of a licence or a share in one · DOC 20322
Vår Energi ASA har overdratt en 25 % andel i tillatelsen til Concedo AS. Iht. skjøte er gjennomføringsdato 30.10.2026 og virkningsdato 01.01.2026.
Oct 30, 2026 · PL 925 · Transfer of a licence or a share in one · DOC 20330
Vår Energi ASA har overdratt sin 10 % andel i tillatelsen til Equinor Energy AS. Iht. skjøte er gjennomføringsdato 30.10.2026 og virkningsdato 01.01.2026.
About this data
Norwegian Offshore Directorate (Sodir) FactPages, mirrored nightly and used under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD). Counts are rows in the mirror; production is saleable volume by field and month, summed for the twelve months ending in the latest month any field has reported. Nothing is converted or estimated.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/norway/stats, documented in the API reference.