NORWAY · FIELDS · NPDID 43485

Hod

North Sea · Oil · Producing · Operator Aker BP ASA

Hod is an oil field in the North Sea operated by Aker BP ASA, discovered in 1974 by wellbore 2/11-2. The Norwegian Offshore Directorate lists it as producing.

In the 12 months reported through August 2026 it sold 0.53 million Sm³ of oil equivalents (0.45 million Sm³ of oil, 0.05 billion Sm³ of gas), up 3% on the 12 months before.

Since October 1990 it has reported 14.7 million Sm³ of oil equivalents: 12.1 million Sm³ of oil and 1.9 billion Sm³ of gas.

2 companies hold it; the largest share is Aker BP ASA with 90%.

54 wellbores are on file for the field.

0.53: mill Sm³ o.e., last 12 reported +3%
0.45: mill Sm³ oil, last 12
0.05: bill Sm³ gas, last 12
14.7: mill Sm³ o.e. since Oct 1990
54: wellbores on file
2: licensees today

SODIR PRODUCTION PROFILES · SALEABLE VOLUMES · REPORTED THROUGH AUG 2026

Oil by month

TEN YEARS · SM³ SOLD

Last 12 months 454,135 · prior 12 439,284(+3%)

Gas by month

TEN YEARS · SM³ SOLD

Last 12 months 51,119,000 · prior 12 49,055,000(+4%)

Produced water by month

TEN YEARS · SM³ IN THE FIELD

Last 12 months 284,549 · prior 12 249,655(+14%)

Licensees

SHARES TODAY · LICENCE 033

Company	Share	Since
Aker BP ASAOPERATOR	90%	Oct 31, 2025
INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS	10%	Oct 31, 2025

Production licence 033: 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	15.7	2.44	0.65	0	19.4
Remaining	4	0.53	0.11	0	4.73

About the field

WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE

Development: Hod is a field in the southern part of the Norwegian sector in the North Sea, about 13 kilometres south of the Valhall field. The water depth is 72 metres. Hod was discovered in 1974, and the plan for development and operation (PDO) was approved in 1988. The field was originally developed with an unmanned wellhead platform, remotely controlled from Valhall. The production started in 1990. A PDO for Hod Saddle was approved in 1994. The production from the original platform ceased in 2013. A PDO for the redevelopment of Hod with a new unmanned wellhead platform (Hod B) tied-in to the Valhall field centre was approved in 2020.
Reservoir: Hod produces oil from chalk in the Upper Cretaceous Tor and Hod Formations and the lower Paleocene Ekofisk Formation. The Tor Formation chalk is fine-grained and soft. Considerable fracturing allows oil and water to flow more easily than in the underlying Hod Formation. The reservoir depth is 2700 metres. The field consists of three structures: Hod West, Hod East and Hod Saddle.
Recovery strategy: The field is produced by pressure depletion. Gas lift has been used in some wells to increase production.
Transport: Oil and gas are transported in a shared pipeline to the Valhall field for further processing. Transport of oil and NGL from Valhall is routed via pipeline to the Ekofisk Centre and further to Teesside in the UK. Gas from Valhall is sent via Norpipe to Emden in Germany.
Status: The production from Hod B started in 2022. The original Hod platform awaits decommissioning within 2026.

Production by year

MONTHLY ROWS ADDED UP · NEWEST FIRST

Year	Oil, mill Sm³	Gas, bill Sm³	NGL, mill Sm³	O.e., mill Sm³	Water, mill Sm³
20268 MONTHS	0.3	0.03	0.02	0.35	0.2
2025	0.43	0.05	0.03	0.5	0.24
2024	0.46	0.05	0.03	0.54	0.27
2023	0.62	0.07	0.04	0.74	0.26
2022	0.35	0.04	0.02	0.41	0.13
2021	0.03	0	0	0.03	0.04
2020	0.04	0	0	0.05	0.05
2019	0.04	0	0	0.05	0.03
2018	0.05	0.01	0	0.06	0.04
2017	0.07	0.01	0	0.08	0.06
2016	0.08	0.01	0	0.09	0.06
2015	0.07	0.01	0	0.08	0.06
2014	0.07	0.01	0	0.08	0.05
2013	0.04	0	0	0.04	0.02
2012	0.04	0	0	0.05	0.03
2011	0.07	0.01	0	0.08	0.04
2010	0.17	0.02	0.01	0.2	0.09
2009	0.19	0.03	0.01	0.23	0.09
2008	0.22	0.03	0.01	0.26	0.11
2007	0.3	0.05	0.01	0.36	0.09
2006	0.38	0.05	0.02	0.44	0.13
2005	0.23	0.04	0.01	0.28	0.09
2004	0.28	0.05	0.01	0.35	0.08
2003	0.33	0.04	0.01	0.39	0.06
2002	0.37	0.05	0.01	0.44	0.05
2001	0.38	0.04	0.02	0.43	0.04
2000	0.09	0.01	0	0.11	0.01
1999	0.13	0.02	0.01	0.15	0
1998	0.29	0.05	0.02	0.36	0
1997	0.47	0.09	0.03	0.59	0
1996	0.56	0.12	0.03	0.71	0
1995	0.52	0.12	0.03	0.67	0
1994	0.62	0.14	0.04	0.79	0
1993	0.87	0.2	0.05	1.12	0
1992	1.29	0.25	0.08	1.61	0
1991	1.53	0.2	0.09	1.82	0
19903 MONTHS	0.16	0.02	0.01	0.19	0

Wellbores

Production 28 · Soil drilling 13 · Appraisal 5 · Observation 4 · Wildcat 3 · Shallow gas 1

All 54 wellbores in Hod, searchable → · Discovery wellbore 2/11-2 →

Operator history

Aker BP ASANov 30, 2016 to today
BP Norge ASMar 12, 2002 to Nov 29, 2016
BP Amoco Norge ASDec 23, 1999 to Mar 11, 2002
Amoco Norway Oil CompanyJun 26, 1988 to Dec 22, 1999

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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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