NORWAY · FIELDS · NPDID 43534

Embla

North Sea · Oil · Producing · Operator ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS

Embla is an oil field in the North Sea operated by ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS, discovered in 1988 by wellbore 2/7-20. The Norwegian Offshore Directorate lists it as producing.

In the 12 months reported through August 2026 it sold 0.17 million Sm³ of oil equivalents (0.06 million Sm³ of oil, 0.1 billion Sm³ of gas), down 15% on the 12 months before.

Since May 1993 it has reported 18.6 million Sm³ of oil equivalents: 11.9 million Sm³ of oil and 5.4 billion Sm³ of gas.

5 companies hold it; the largest share is TotalEnergies EP Norge AS with 39.9%.

18 wellbores are on file for the field.

0.17: mill Sm³ o.e., last 12 reported -15%
0.06: mill Sm³ oil, last 12
0.1: bill Sm³ gas, last 12
18.6: mill Sm³ o.e. since May 1993
18: wellbores on file
5: licensees today

SODIR PRODUCTION PROFILES · SALEABLE VOLUMES · REPORTED THROUGH AUG 2026

Oil by month

TEN YEARS · SM³ SOLD

Last 12 months 58,578 · prior 12 85,270(-31%)

Gas by month

TEN YEARS · SM³ SOLD

Last 12 months 99,365,000 · prior 12 101,112,000(-2%)

Produced water by month

TEN YEARS · SM³ IN THE FIELD

Last 12 months 764 · prior 12 5,726(-87%)

Licensees

SHARES TODAY · LICENCE 018

Company	Share	Since
TotalEnergies EP Norge AS	39.896%	Dec 17, 2025
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia ASOPERATOR	35.112%	Dec 17, 2025
Vår Energi ASA	12.388%	Dec 17, 2025
DNO Norge AS	7.604%	Dec 17, 2025
Petoro AS	5%	Dec 17, 2025

Production licence 018: 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	12.5	5.8	0.66	0	19.6
Remaining	0.19	0.28	0.03	0	0.51

About the field

WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE

Development: Embla is a field in the southern part of the Norwegian sector in the North Sea, south of the Eldfisk field. The water depth is 70 metres. Already in 1974, a well tested oil on Embla, but it was not until 1988 that the field was discovered. The plan for development and operation (PDO) was approved in 1990. The field has been developed with an unmanned wellhead facility, which is remotely controlled from Eldfisk. Production started in 1993. In 1995, an amended PDO for Embla was approved.
Reservoir: Embla produces oil and gas from segmented sandstone and conglomerate of Devonian and Permian age. The reservoir is at a depth of more than 4000 metres and has high pressure and high temperature (HPHT). It has a complex, highly faulted structure.
Recovery strategy: The field is produced by pressure depletion.
Transport: Oil and gas are transported by pipeline to the Eldfisk S facility for processing, and further to the Ekofisk Centre for export. Gas from the Ekofisk area is transported via the Norpipe gas pipeline to Emden in Germany, while the oil is sent via the Norpipe oil pipeline to Teesside in the UK.
Status: As part of the Eldfisk II development project, Embla was tied to the Eldfisk S facility, extending the lifetime for Embla. Because of the complexity of the reservoir, there are no plans other than optimising the existing production wells. Currently, there are four active producers.

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	0.04	0.06	0.01	0.11	0
2025	0.07	0.1	0.02	0.19	0
2024	0.12	0.11	0.02	0.25	0.01
2023	0.17	0.21	0.05	0.42	0.01
2022	0.07	0.14	0.03	0.24	0.01
2021	0.07	0.16	0.04	0.27	0.01
2020	0.08	0.12	0.04	0.24	0.01
2019	0.09	0.1	0.02	0.21	0.01
2018	0.15	0.11	0.02	0.27	0.01
2017	0.18	0.11	0.02	0.32	0
2016	0.15	0.1	0.02	0.28	0
2015	0.13	0.08	0.02	0.23	0
2014	0.19	0.08	0.02	0.29	0
2013	0.13	0.07	0.01	0.21	0.01
2012	0.12	0.09	0.02	0.23	0.01
2011	0.15	0.12	0.02	0.29	0.02
2010	0.17	0.16	0.03	0.36	0.01
2009	0.22	0.15	0.03	0.4	0.01
2008	0.22	0.14	0.03	0.39	0.01
2007	0.2	0.11	0.03	0.33	0.01
2006	0.33	0.16	0.04	0.53	0.01
2005	0.28	0.14	0.03	0.45	0
2004	0.4	0.16	0.04	0.6	0.01
2003	0.4	0.11	0.03	0.55	0.01
2002	0.39	0.08	0.04	0.5	0.01
2001	0.5	0.08	0.04	0.62	0.01
2000	0.64	0.23	0.06	0.92	0.01
1999	0.7	0.25	0.06	1.01	0
1998	0.48	0.19	0.04	0.71	0
1997	0.74	0.3	0.06	1.09	0
1996	1	0.36	0.07	1.43	0
1995	1.27	0.39	0.09	1.75	0
1994	1.42	0.43	0.1	1.94	0
19938 MONTHS	0.69	0.21	0.05	0.94	0

Wellbores

Production 7 · Appraisal 6 · Wildcat 3 · Soil drilling 2

All 18 wellbores in Embla, searchable → · Discovery wellbore 2/7-20 →

Operator history

ConocoPhillips Skandinavia ASMay 6, 2003 to today
Phillips Petroleum Norsk ASApr 1, 2003 to May 5, 2003
ConocoPhillips NorgeOct 23, 2002 to Mar 31, 2003
Phillips Petroleum Company NorwayDec 14, 1990 to Oct 22, 2002

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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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