NORWAY · FIELDS · NPDID 18161341
Gaupe
North Sea · Oil/gas · Shut down
Gaupe is an oil and gas field in the North Sea, discovered in 1985 by wellbore 6/3-1. The Norwegian Offshore Directorate lists it as shut down.
No production has been reported since August 2018.
Since April 2012 it has reported 0.8 million Sm³ of oil equivalents: 0.2 million Sm³ of oil and 0.5 billion Sm³ of gas.
4 wellbores are on file for the field.
- 0
- mill Sm³ o.e., last 12 reported
- 0
- mill Sm³ oil, last 12
- 0
- bill Sm³ gas, last 12
- 0.76
- mill Sm³ o.e. since Apr 2012
- 4
- wellbores on file
- 0
- licensees today
SODIR PRODUCTION PROFILES · SALEABLE VOLUMES · REPORTED THROUGH AUG 2026 · LAST VOLUME AUG 2018
Oil by month
TEN YEARS · SM³ SOLD
Last 12 months 6,474 · prior 12 13,063(-50%)
Gas by month
TEN YEARS · SM³ SOLD
Last 12 months 2,169,000 · prior 12 59,074,000(-96%)
Produced water by month
TEN YEARS · SM³ IN THE FIELD
Last 12 months 1,185 · prior 12 594(+99%)
Reserves
THE DIRECTORATE'S ESTIMATE · AS OF DEC 31, 2025
These are the Norwegian Offshore Directorate's own year-end estimates, shown as it publishes them. Petrora does not estimate reserves.
| Oil, mill Sm³ | Gas, bill Sm³ | NGL, mill tonnes | Condensate, mill Sm³ | O.e., mill Sm³ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Originally recoverable | 0.24 | 0.46 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.76 |
| Remaining | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
About the field
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
- Development
- Gaupe is a field in the central part of the North Sea close to the border to the UK sector, about 35 kilometres south of the Sleipner Øst field. The water depth is 90 metres. Gaupe was discovered in 1985, and the plan for development and operation (PDO) was approved in 2010. The development concept was two single horizontal subsea wells tied to the Armada installation on the UK continental shelf. The production started in 2012.
- Reservoir
- Gaupe produced oil and gas from two structures, Gaupe South and Gaupe North. Most of the resources were in sandstone in the Triassic Skagerrak Formation, while some were in Middle Jurassic sandstone. The reservoirs are at a depth of 3000 metres. The two structures had a gas cap overlying an oil zone. Due to segmentation, the vertical and lateral connectivity in the field is poor.
- Recovery strategy
- The field was produced by pressure depletion.
- Transport
- The well stream was processed at the Armada installation for export to the UK. The rich gas was transported via the Central Area Transmission System (CATS) pipeline to Teesside in the UK, and liquids were transported via the Forties pipeline to Cruden Bay in the UK.
- Status
- Gaupe was shut down in 2018. Decommissioning of the subsea facilities must be completed by the end of 2028.
Production by year
MONTHLY ROWS ADDED UP · NEWEST FIRST
| Year | Oil, mill Sm³ | Gas, bill Sm³ | NGL, mill Sm³ | Condensate, mill Sm³ | O.e., mill Sm³ | Water, mill Sm³ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20188 MONTHS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0.02 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0.02 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | 0.09 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 0.02 | 0.07 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.11 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0.05 | 0.14 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.21 | 0.01 |
| 20129 MONTHS | 0.11 | 0.16 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.29 | 0 |
Wellbores
Production 2 · Wildcat 2
All 4 wellbores in Gaupe, searchable → · Discovery wellbore 6/3-1 →
Operator history
- A/S Norske ShellMay 25, 2016 to Dec 31, 2020
- BG Norge ASJun 25, 2010 to May 24, 2016
This field on Sodir FactPages →
About this data
Norwegian Offshore Directorate (Sodir) FactPages, mirrored nightly and used under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD). Production is saleable volume by month from the Directorate's profiles, cut at the latest month any field has reported; yearly and cumulative figures are those months added up. Shares are the current rows of the field's licensee history. Reserves are the Directorate's estimate.
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