NORWAY · FIELDS · NPDID 4444332
Alve
Norwegian Sea · Gas/condensate · Producing · Operator Equinor Energy AS
Alve is a gas and condensate field in the Norwegian Sea operated by Equinor Energy AS, discovered in 1990 by wellbore 6507/3-1. The Norwegian Offshore Directorate lists it as producing.
In the 12 months reported through August 2026 it sold 1.29 million Sm³ of oil equivalents (0.11 million Sm³ of oil, 1.06 billion Sm³ of gas), up 202% on the 12 months before.
Since January 2009 it has reported 16.1 million Sm³ of oil equivalents: 2.5 million Sm³ of oil and 10.4 billion Sm³ of gas.
3 companies hold it; the largest share is Equinor Energy AS with 53%.
10 wellbores are on file for the field.
- 1.29
- mill Sm³ o.e., last 12 reported +202%
- 0.11
- mill Sm³ oil, last 12
- 1.06
- bill Sm³ gas, last 12
- 16.1
- mill Sm³ o.e. since Jan 2009
- 10
- 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 107,204 · prior 12 37,077(+189%)
Gas by month
TEN YEARS · SM³ SOLD
Last 12 months 1,058,693,000 · prior 12 320,478,000(+230%)
Produced water by month
TEN YEARS · SM³ IN THE FIELD
Last 12 months 7,326 · prior 12 5,333(+37%)
Licensees
SHARES TODAY · LICENCE 159 B
| Company | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Equinor Energy ASOPERATOR | 53% | Dec 17, 2025 |
| DNO Norge AS | 32% | Dec 17, 2025 |
| ORLEN Upstream Norway AS | 15% | Dec 17, 2025 |
Production licence 159 B: 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 | 2.61 | 12.3 | 1.64 | 0 | 18 |
| Remaining | 0.2 | 2.21 | 0.27 | 0 | 2.92 |
About the field
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
- Development
- Alve is a field in the Norwegian Sea, 16 kilometres southwest of the Norne field. The water depth is 370 metres. Alve was discovered in 1990, and the plan for development and operation (PDO) was approved in 2007. The development concept is a standard subsea template with four production wells. Alve is tied to the Norne production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) by a pipeline. The production started in 2009. An exemption from a PDO was granted for the development of the discovery 6507/3-8 Andvare in 2023.
- Reservoir
- Alve produces oil and gas from sandstone of Early and Middle Jurassic age in the Tilje, Not and Garn Formations. The reservoir is at a depth of 3600 metres and has moderate to good quality.
- Recovery strategy
- The field is produced by pressure depletion.
- Transport
- The oil is offloaded from the Norne FPSO and the gas is transported via the Norne pipeline to the Åsgard Transport System (ÅTS) and further to the Kårstø terminal for export.
- Status
- Production from Alve is constrained by the commercial agreement with the Norne licence and the gas handling capacity on the Norne FPSO. Excess capacity on the FPSO in recent years has made it possible to process larger volumes of gas from Alve. The long-term activity on the field is to optimise production. Andvare is drilled and produced from a well slot available on Norne.
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 | 0.08 | 0.76 | 0.08 | 0 | 0.91 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0.05 | 0.52 | 0.09 | 0 | 0.66 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 0.06 | 0.48 | 0.12 | 0 | 0.66 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 0.08 | 0.58 | 0.14 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 0.06 | 0.53 | 0.12 | 0 | 0.71 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 0.05 | 0.44 | 0.13 | 0 | 0.61 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 0.05 | 0.41 | 0.14 | 0 | 0.59 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 0.09 | 0.57 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.86 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 0.14 | 0.64 | 0.22 | 0 | 1 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 0.18 | 0.77 | 0.25 | 0 | 1.19 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 0.15 | 0.45 | 0.16 | 0 | 0.75 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0.15 | 0.46 | 0.16 | 0 | 0.77 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0.18 | 0.54 | 0.18 | 0 | 0.91 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0.14 | 0.32 | 0.12 | 0 | 0.57 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0.24 | 0.5 | 0.19 | 0 | 0.93 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0.32 | 0.75 | 0.27 | 0 | 1.33 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0.24 | 0.84 | 0.29 | 0 | 1.37 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0.26 | 0.9 | 0.31 | 0 | 1.47 | 0 |
Wellbores
Production 5 · Wildcat 3 · Appraisal 1 · Observation 1
All 10 wellbores in Alve, searchable → · Discovery wellbore 6507/3-1 →
Operator history
- Equinor Energy ASMay 16, 2018 to today
- Statoil Petroleum ASNov 1, 2009 to May 15, 2018
- StatoilHydro Petroleum ASJan 1, 2009 to Oct 31, 2009
- StatoilHydro ASAOct 1, 2007 to Dec 31, 2008
- Statoil ASA (old)Mar 16, 2007 to Sep 30, 2007
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/4444332, documented in the API reference.