NORWAY · FIELDS · NPDID 43665

Murchison

North Sea · Oil · Shut down

Murchison is an oil field in the North Sea, discovered in 1975 by wellbore ?. The Norwegian Offshore Directorate lists it as shut down.

No production has been reported since February 2014.

Since October 1980 it has reported 14.8 million Sm³ of oil equivalents: 13.9 million Sm³ of oil and 0.3 billion Sm³ of gas.

0: mill Sm³ o.e., last 12 reported
0: mill Sm³ oil, last 12
0: bill Sm³ gas, last 12
14.8: mill Sm³ o.e. since Oct 1980
0: wellbores on file
0: licensees today

SODIR PRODUCTION PROFILES · SALEABLE VOLUMES · REPORTED THROUGH AUG 2026 · LAST VOLUME FEB 2014

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	13.9	0.35	0.32	0	14.8
Remaining	0	0	0	0	0

About the field

WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE

Development: Murchison is a field in the Tampen area in the northern part of the North Sea, on the border between the Norwegian and UK sectors. The Norwegian share of the field was 22.2 per cent. Murchison was discovered in 1975, and the plan for development and operation was approved in 1976. The field was developed in the UK sector with a combined drilling, accommodation and production facility. The British and Norwegian licensees and authorities entered into an agreement in 1979 concerning common exploitation of the resources on the Murchison field. The production started in 1980.
Reservoir: Murchison produced oil from sandstone of Middle Jurassic age in the Brent Group.
Recovery strategy: The field was produced with pressure support from water injection.
Transport: The well stream was sent through the Brent Pipeline System to Sullom Voe in the Shetland Islands in the UK.
Status: Murchison was shut down in 2014, and the platform was removed in 2017.

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
20142 MONTHS	0	0	0	0	0.1
2013	0.03	0	0	0.03	1.32
2012	0.04	0	0	0.04	1.96
2011	0.05	0	0	0.05	1.92
2010	0.05	0	-0	0.05	1.83
2009	0.07	0	0	0.07	2.4
2008	0.08	0	0	0.08	2.15
2007	0.08	0	0	0.08	2.16
2006	0.09	0	0	0.09	2.38
2005	0.08	0	0	0.08	2.19
2004	0.09	0	0	0.09	2.26
2003	0.11	0	0	0.12	2.34
2002	0.11	0	0	0.11	2.14
2001	0.09	0	0	0.09	2.16
2000	0.17	0	0.01	0.17	2.25
1999	0.25	0	0.01	0.26	0
1998	0.27	0.01	0.01	0.28	0
1997	0.28	0.01	0.01	0.3	0
1996	0.24	0.01	0.01	0.25	0
1995	0.2	0	0.01	0.21	0
1994	0.23	0	0	0.24	0
1993	0.29	0.01	0.01	0.31	0
1992	0.47	0.02	0.01	0.5	0
1991	0.39	0.01	0.01	0.42	0
1990	0.48	0.01	0.01	0.5	0
1989	0.48	0.02	0.02	0.52	0
1988	0.52	0.02	0.02	0.57	0
1987	0.34	0.02	0.02	0.39	0
1986	0.89	0.05	0.08	1.02	0
1985	1.7	0.06	0.14	1.89	0
1984	2.86	0.08	0.2	3.14	0
1983	1.05	0.02	0.05	1.12	0
1982	1.05	0	0	1.05	0
1981	0.72	0	0	0.72	0
19803 MONTHS	0	0	0	0	0

Operator history

CNR International (UK) LimitedNov 1, 2002 to Dec 31, 2017
Kerr Mc-Gee North Sea (UK) LtdApr 19, 1999 to Oct 31, 2002
Oryx (UK) Energy CompanyJan 9, 1995 to Apr 18, 1999
Conoco (UK) LtdDec 15, 1986 to Jan 8, 1995

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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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