NORWAY · FIELDS · NPDID 5774394
Goliat
Barents Sea · Oil · Producing · Operator Vår Energi ASA
Goliat is an oil field in the Barents Sea operated by Vår Energi ASA, discovered in 2000 by wellbore 7122/7-1. The Norwegian Offshore Directorate lists it as producing.
In the 12 months reported through August 2026 it sold 1.3 million Sm³ of oil equivalents (1.3 million Sm³ of oil, 0 billion Sm³ of gas), up 4% on the 12 months before.
Since March 2016 it has reported 22.6 million Sm³ of oil equivalents: 22.6 million Sm³ of oil and 0 billion Sm³ of gas.
2 companies hold it; the largest share is Vår Energi ASA with 65%.
55 wellbores are on file for the field.
- 1.3
- mill Sm³ o.e., last 12 reported +4%
- 1.3
- mill Sm³ oil, last 12
- 0
- bill Sm³ gas, last 12
- 22.6
- mill Sm³ o.e. since Mar 2016
- 55
- 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 1,299,352 · prior 12 1,245,006(+4%)
Produced water by month
TEN YEARS · SM³ IN THE FIELD
Last 12 months 1,110,667 · prior 12 1,358,719(-18%)
Licensees
SHARES TODAY · LICENCE 229
| Company | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Vår Energi ASAOPERATOR | 65% | Jan 28, 2022 |
| Equinor Energy AS | 35% | Jan 28, 2022 |
Production licence 229: 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 | 32.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32.1 |
| Remaining | 10.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.3 |
About the field
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
- Development
- Goliat is a field in the Barents Sea, 50 kilometres southeast of the Snøhvit field. The water depth is 360-420 metres. Goliat was discovered in 2000, and the plan for development and operation (PDO) was approved in 2009. The field is developed with a cylindrical floating production, storage and offloading facility (Sevan 1000 FPSO). Eight subsea templates with a total of 32 well slots are tied-back to the FPSO. Production started in 2016. Goliat was granted a PDO exemption for the Snadd reservoir in 2017 and the Goliat West segment in 2020. The production from these accumulations started in 2017 and 2021, respectively.
- Reservoir
- Goliat produces oil from sandstone of Triassic age in the Kobbe and Snadd Formations, and in the Kapp Toscana Group (Realgrunnen subgroup) of Triassic to Jurassic age. The reservoirs have thin gas caps and are in a complex and segmented structure at depths of 1100-1800 metres.
- Recovery strategy
- The field is produced using water injection as pressure support. Additional pressure support results from reinjection of produced gas.
- Transport
- The oil is offloaded to shuttle tankers for transport to the market. Future gas export is planned via the Snøhvit pipeline to the liquid natural gas (LNG) processing facility at Melkøya near Hammerfest.
- Status
- Production regularity has been below expectation since production start-up. Continuous maintenance and modification work along with several revision stops have resulted in a gradually improved regularity of the facility. A solution for Goliat gas export is being considered, which will contribute to extend the lifetime of the field. Several infill wells have been drilled since start up. More infill and exploration wells are planned in the coming years.
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 | 0.85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.85 | 0.71 |
| 2025 | 1.28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.28 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 1.26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.26 | 1.54 |
| 2023 | 1.49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.49 | 1.7 |
| 2022 | 1.88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.88 | 2.15 |
| 2021 | 2.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.02 | 1.75 |
| 2020 | 2.31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.31 | 1.67 |
| 2019 | 2.36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.36 | 0.84 |
| 2018 | 3.72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.72 | 0.4 |
| 2017 | 2.51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.51 | 0.01 |
| 201610 MONTHS | 2.95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.95 | 0 |
Wellbores
Production 27 · Injection 12 · Stratigraphic 4 · Appraisal 4 · Wildcat 3 · Shallow gas 2 · Observation 2 · Soil drilling 1
All 55 wellbores in Goliat, searchable → · Discovery wellbore 7122/7-1 →
Operator history
- Vår Energi ASAJan 28, 2022 to today
- Vår Energi ASDec 10, 2018 to Jan 27, 2022
- Eni Norge ASJun 18, 2009 to Dec 9, 2018
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.
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