Varg
North Sea · Oil · Shut down · Operator Repsol Norge AS
Varg is an oil field in the North Sea operated by Repsol Norge AS, discovered in 1984 by wellbore 15/12-4. The Norwegian Offshore Directorate lists it as shut down.
No production has been reported since July 2016.
Since December 1998 it has reported 16.7 million Sm³ of oil equivalents: 16.3 million Sm³ of oil and 0.3 billion Sm³ of gas.
2 companies hold it; the largest share is Repsol Norge AS with 70%.
42 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
- 16.7
- mill Sm³ o.e. since Dec 1998
- 42
- wellbores on file
- 2
- licensees today
SODIR PRODUCTION PROFILES · SALEABLE VOLUMES · REPORTED THROUGH AUG 2026 · LAST VOLUME JUL 2016
Licensees
SHARES TODAY · LICENCE 038 F
| Company | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Repsol Norge ASOPERATOR | 70% | Mar 20, 2026 |
| Petoro AS | 30% | Mar 20, 2026 |
Production licence 038 F: 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 | 16.3 | 0.3 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 16.7 |
| Remaining | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
About the field
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
- Development
- Varg is a field in the central part of the North Sea, south of the Sleipner Øst field. The water depth is 85 metres. Varg was discovered in 1984, and the plan for development and operation (PDO) was approved in 1996. The field was developed with a production vessel, Petrojarl Varg, which had integrated oil storage and was connected to the wellhead facility Varg A. The production started in 1998.
- Reservoir
- Varg produced oil mainly from Upper Jurassic sandstone in the Ula Formation. The reservoir is at a depth of about 2700 metres. The structure is segmented and includes several isolated compartments with varying reservoir properties.
- Recovery strategy
- The field was produced with pressure maintenance using water and gas injection. The smaller structures were produced by pressure depletion. All wells were produced with gas lift.
- Transport
- Oil was off-loaded from the production vessel onto tankers. All gas was reinjected until gas export started in 2014. A pipeline was installed between the Varg and Rev fields to export the gas to the UK via the Central Area Transmission System (CATS).
- Status
- The decommissioning plan for Varg was approved in 2001. The plan then was to produce until summer 2002, but measures implemented on the field prolonged its lifetime. A new decommissioning plan was submitted in 2015. Varg was shut down in 2016, and the facility was removed in 2018.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20167 MONTHS | 0.1 | 0.09 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.21 | 0.4 |
| 2015 | 0.32 | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.41 | 1.18 |
| 2014 | 0.4 | 0.13 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.56 | 1.36 |
| 2013 | 0.46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.46 | 0.94 |
| 2012 | 0.65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.65 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0.97 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.97 | 0.5 |
| 2010 | 1.42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.42 | 0.69 |
| 2009 | 0.79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.79 | 1.03 |
| 2008 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 1.66 |
| 2007 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 1.68 |
| 2006 | 0.85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.85 | 0.87 |
| 2005 | 1.28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.28 | 0.33 |
| 2004 | 1.21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.21 | 0.37 |
| 2003 | 0.92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.92 | 0.77 |
| 2002 | 0.78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.78 | 1.39 |
| 2001 | 1.19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.19 | 1.07 |
| 2000 | 1.74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.74 | 0.3 |
| 1999 | 1.74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.74 | 0 |
| 19981 MONTH | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 |
Wellbores
Production 27 · Injection 8 · Appraisal 5 · Wildcat 2
All 42 wellbores in Varg, searchable → · Discovery wellbore 15/12-4 →
Operator history
- Repsol Norge ASJan 13, 2026 to today
- Harbour Energy Norge AS (Old)Oct 24, 2022 to Feb 13, 2023
- Chrysaor Norge ASFeb 14, 2020 to Oct 23, 2022
- Repsol Norge ASOct 6, 2015 to Dec 31, 2018
- Repsol Exploration Norge ASSep 1, 2015 to Oct 5, 2015
- Talisman Energy Norge ASApr 29, 2005 to Aug 31, 2015
- Talisman Production Norge ASMar 31, 2005 to Apr 28, 2005
- Pertra AS (OLD)Aug 1, 2002 to Mar 30, 2005
- Norsk Hydro Produksjon ASJan 11, 2001 to Jul 31, 2002
- Saga Petroleum ASAMay 3, 1996 to Jan 10, 2001
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/43451, documented in the API reference.