NORWAY · FIELDS · NPDID 20461008
Visund Sør
North Sea · Oil/gas · Producing · Operator Equinor Energy AS
Visund Sør is an oil and gas field in the North Sea operated by Equinor Energy AS, discovered in 2008 by wellbore 34/8-14 S. The Norwegian Offshore Directorate lists it as producing.
In the 12 months reported through August 2026 it sold 0.31 million Sm³ of oil equivalents (0.05 million Sm³ of oil, 0.22 billion Sm³ of gas), up 534% on the 12 months before.
Since November 2012 it has reported 10.2 million Sm³ of oil equivalents: 2.8 million Sm³ of oil and 5.9 billion Sm³ of gas.
4 companies hold it; the largest share is Equinor Energy AS with 53.2%.
14 wellbores are on file for the field.
- 0.31
- mill Sm³ o.e., last 12 reported +534%
- 0.05
- mill Sm³ oil, last 12
- 0.22
- bill Sm³ gas, last 12
- 10.2
- mill Sm³ o.e. since Nov 2012
- 14
- wellbores on file
- 4
- licensees today
SODIR PRODUCTION PROFILES · SALEABLE VOLUMES · REPORTED THROUGH AUG 2026
Oil by month
TEN YEARS · SM³ SOLD
Last 12 months 49,061 · prior 12 23,182(+112%)
Gas by month
TEN YEARS · SM³ SOLD
Last 12 months 222,852,000 · prior 12 19,682,000(+1032%)
Produced water by month
TEN YEARS · SM³ IN THE FIELD
Last 12 months 433 · prior 12 17,079(-97%)
Licensees
SHARES TODAY · UNIT VISUND INSIDE
| Company | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Equinor Energy ASOPERATOR | 53.2% | May 16, 2018 |
| Petoro AS | 30% | May 16, 2018 |
| ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS | 9.1% | May 16, 2018 |
| Repsol Norge AS | 7.7% | May 16, 2018 |
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 | 2.87 | 6.62 | 0.93 | 0 | 11.2 |
| Remaining | 0.1 | 1.03 | 0.15 | 0 | 1.42 |
About the field
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
- Development
- Visund Sør is a field in the northern part of the North Sea, 10 kilometres northeast of the Gullfaks C platform. The water depth is 290 metres. Visund Sør was discovered in 2008, and the plan for development and operation (PDO) was approved in 2011. The field is developed with a subsea template tied to Gullfaks C. The production started in 2012.
- Reservoir
- Visund Sør produces oil and gas from sandstone in the Middle Jurassic Brent Group and the Upper Triassic Statfjord Group. The reservoir depth is 2800-2900 metres.
- Recovery strategy
- The field is produced by pressure depletion.
- Transport
- The well stream is transported to Gullfaks C for processing and export.
- Status
- The production started up again in September 2023 after a temporary shut-in due to low reservoir pressure and high water production. One new well was drilled in 2023 and is producing from the Statfjord reservoir. Start-up attempts have been made to get shut-in wells back to production.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20268 MONTHS | 0.05 | 0.22 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.31 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0.07 | 0.16 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.27 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 0.07 | 0.11 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0.06 | 0.45 | 0.12 | 0 | 0.63 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 0.09 | 0.55 | 0.15 | 0 | 0.79 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 0.2 | 0.88 | 0.23 | 0 | 1.31 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0.28 | 0.78 | 0.22 | 0 | 1.28 | 0.32 |
| 2016 | 0.34 | 0.73 | 0.19 | 0 | 1.25 | 0.7 |
| 2015 | 0.64 | 0.77 | 0.21 | 0 | 1.62 | 0.37 |
| 2014 | 0.56 | 0.68 | 0.18 | 0 | 1.42 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 0.42 | 0.5 | 0.12 | 0 | 1.05 | 0.03 |
| 20122 MONTHS | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.07 | 0 |
Wellbores
Production 6 · Appraisal 3 · Observation 3 · Shallow gas 1 · Wildcat 1
All 14 wellbores in Visund Sør, searchable → · Discovery wellbore 34/8-14 S →
Operator history
- Equinor Energy ASMay 16, 2018 to today
- Statoil Petroleum ASJun 10, 2011 to May 15, 2018
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.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/norway/fields/20461008, documented in the API reference.