NORWAY · FIELDS · NPDID 28975098
Utgard
North Sea · Gas · Producing · Operator Equinor Energy AS
Utgard is a gas field in the North Sea operated by Equinor Energy AS, discovered in 1982 by wellbore 15/8-1. The Norwegian Offshore Directorate lists it as producing.
In the 12 months reported through August 2026 it sold 0.18 million Sm³ of oil equivalents (0.07 million Sm³ of oil, 0.09 billion Sm³ of gas), up 85% on the 12 months before.
Since August 2019 it has reported 2.5 million Sm³ of oil equivalents: 1 million Sm³ of oil and 1.1 billion Sm³ of gas.
3 companies hold it; the largest share is Equinor Energy AS with 38.44%.
5 wellbores are on file for the field.
- 0.18
- mill Sm³ o.e., last 12 reported +85%
- 0.07
- mill Sm³ oil, last 12
- 0.09
- bill Sm³ gas, last 12
- 2.47
- mill Sm³ o.e. since Aug 2019
- 5
- 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 69,790 · prior 12 44,142(+58%)
Gas by month
TEN YEARS · SM³ SOLD
Last 12 months 90,721,000 · prior 12 46,849,000(+94%)
Produced water by month
TEN YEARS · SM³ IN THE FIELD
Last 12 months 6,315 · prior 12 18,674(-66%)
Licensees
SHARES TODAY · UNIT UTGARD UNIT
| Company | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Equinor Energy ASOPERATOR | 38.44% | Sep 25, 2024 |
| Equinor UK Limited | 38% | Sep 25, 2024 |
| ORLEN Upstream Norway AS | 23.56% | Sep 25, 2024 |
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 | 1.08 | 1.35 | 0.17 | 0 | 2.75 |
| Remaining | 0.1 | 0.26 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.38 |
About the field
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
- Development
- Utgard is a field in the central part of the Norwegian sector in the North Sea, on the border between Norway and the United Kingdom. The Norwegian share of the field is 62 per cent. Utgard is located 20 kilometres west of the Sleipner area. The water depth is 110-120 metres. The field was discovered in 1982 and the plan for development and operation (PDO) was approved in 2017. The development concept is a 4-slot subsea template with two wells tied-back to the Sleipner T facility for processing and reduction of the CO2 level in the gas. The subsea template is located in the Norwegian sector. The production started in 2019.
- Reservoir
- Utgard produces gas with high CO2 content and some condensate mainly from sandstone of Middle Jurassic age in the Hugin Formation. Minor hydrocarbon volumes occur in the Sleipner Formation. The field consists of two main segments (west and east) which are in pressure communication via the aquifer. The main reservoirs are at a depth of 3700 metres.
- Recovery strategy
- Utgard is produced by pressure depletion.
- Transport
- The well stream from the Utgard field is processed at the Sleipner T facility. The sales gas is exported via Gassled (Area D). The unstable oil is transported by pipeline via Sleipner A to the Kårstø terminal for further processing and export.
- Status
- Utgard is currently producing from two wells, and the key challenge on the field is the high water production. A sidetrack well in the eastern segment came on stream in 2025.
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 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.01 |
| 2025 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.15 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 0.06 | 0.11 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.18 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 0.08 | 0.13 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.22 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 0.16 | 0.21 | 0.06 | 0 | 0.43 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 0.33 | 0.32 | 0.12 | 0 | 0.77 | 0.13 |
| 20195 MONTHS | 0.21 | 0.16 | 0.07 | 0 | 0.43 | 0 |
Wellbores
Production 4 · Wildcat 1
All 5 wellbores in Utgard, searchable → · Discovery wellbore 15/8-1 →
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.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/norway/fields/28975098, documented in the API reference.