NORWAY · FIELDS · NPDID 28975067
Byrding
North Sea · Oil/gas · Producing · Operator Equinor Energy AS
Byrding is an oil and gas field in the North Sea operated by Equinor Energy AS, discovered in 2005 by wellbore 35/11-13. The Norwegian Offshore Directorate lists it as producing.
In the 12 months reported through August 2026 it sold 0.01 million Sm³ of oil equivalents (0.01 million Sm³ of oil, 0 billion Sm³ of gas), up 115% on the 12 months before.
Since January 2017 it has reported 0.9 million Sm³ of oil equivalents: 0.9 million Sm³ of oil and 0 billion Sm³ of gas.
3 companies hold it; the largest share is Equinor Energy AS with 70%.
4 wellbores are on file for the field.
- 0.01
- mill Sm³ o.e., last 12 reported +115%
- 0.01
- mill Sm³ oil, last 12
- 0
- bill Sm³ gas, last 12
- 0.86
- mill Sm³ o.e. since Jan 2017
- 4
- wellbores on file
- 3
- licensees today
SODIR PRODUCTION PROFILES · SALEABLE VOLUMES · REPORTED THROUGH AUG 2026
Oil by month
TEN YEARS · SM³ SOLD
Last 12 months 14,492 · prior 12 6,738(+115%)
Produced water by month
TEN YEARS · SM³ IN THE FIELD
Last 12 months 30,695 · prior 12 0
Licensees
SHARES TODAY · LICENCE 090 B
| Company | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Equinor Energy ASOPERATOR | 70% | Jun 8, 2024 |
| INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS | 15% | Jun 8, 2024 |
| Vår Energi ASA | 15% | Jun 8, 2024 |
Production licence 090 B: ownership history and register messages →
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 | 0.94 | 0.54 | 0.04 | 0 | 1.56 |
| Remaining | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | 0.11 |
About the field
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
- Development
- Byrding is a field in the northern part of the North Sea, four kilometres north of the Fram H-Nord field and 30 kilometres north of the Troll C facility. The water depth is 360 metres. Byrding was discovered in 2005, and the plan for development and operation (PDO) was approved in 2017. The development concept is a two-branch multilateral (MLT) well drilled from the Fram H-Nord template. The production started in 2017.
- Reservoir
- Byrding produces oil and gas from turbiditic sandstone of Late Jurassic age in the Heather Formation. The reservoir is at a depth of 3050 metres. It is structurally complex and has good reservoir quality.
- Recovery strategy
- The field is produced by pressure depletion.
- Transport
- The well stream is routed through Fram Vest to Troll C for processing. The oil is transported further in the Troll Oil Pipeline II to the Mongstad terminal, and the gas is exported via Troll A to the Kollsnes terminal.
- Status
- Production has resumed after being shut down since December 2022 due to technical issues in the well.
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 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
| 2025 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.11 | 0.2 |
| 2020 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.13 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.18 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 0.21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.21 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.13 | 0 |
Wellbores
Production 2 · Appraisal 1 · Wildcat 1
All 4 wellbores in Byrding, searchable → · Discovery wellbore 35/11-13 →
Operator history
- Equinor Energy ASMay 16, 2018 to today
- Statoil Petroleum ASJan 17, 2017 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.
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