Who operates the Brage field?

Brage is operated by OKEA ASA, in partnership with Lime Petroleum AS, DNO Norge AS, Petrolia NOCO AS and others.

How much does Brage produce?

17,959 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.4% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 48 of 94 producing fields.

When did Brage start producing?

First production was reported in 1993, 13 years after discovery well 31/4-3 proved the field in 1980.

What is the Norwegian Continental Shelf?

The Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) is the seabed area where Norway holds sovereign rights over petroleum resources, covering the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. It holds roughly 90 producing fields, and its output is the largest single source of Norway's export income.

What does NCS Live show?

Every in-service surface installation and subsea structure on the shelf, the offshore pipeline network, field outlines and seabed relief, with live vessel traffic and offshore helicopter flights on top of them. Optional layers add seismic survey activity, cold-water coral, wind and wave forecasts, and a counter for the value each field is producing today.

Where does the data come from?

Infrastructure, fields and production come from the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (Sokkeldirektoratet) FactPages under the NLOD licence. Vessel positions are AIS from BarentsWatch and Kystverket. Helicopter movements are derived from Avinor flight data. Coral observations come from the Institute of Marine Research and MAREANO, and export prices from Statistics Norway (SSB).

Is the vessel traffic real time?

Yes. Tankers and offshore support vessels are drawn from live AIS positions and refreshed continuously, with speed, course and self-reported destination. Helicopter positions are dead-reckoned estimates between known departures and arrivals, not surveillance.

Are the pipeline flows measured?

No. Pipeline thickness and the travelling flow animation are estimates, derived by accumulating monthly field production through the pipeline network. They are not metered throughput, and thickness is not pipe diameter.

Can I see how the shelf was built out?

Yes. The time machine replays the shelf from 1971, the year Ekofisk started producing, to today. Installations and pipelines appear in the year they entered service, with total production and the number of producing fields for each year.

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Brage field

Brage is producing 17,959 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.4% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 48 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

17,959 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.4%

Operator

OKEA ASA

First oil

1993

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 17,959 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — roughly 72% oil and 21% gas by energy content. Output has moved up 14.8% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is growing. The field's best year was 1996, averaging 119,397 boe/d — today it runs at 15% of that.

Since 1993, Brage has produced roughly 446 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 458 million boe, of which about 97% has now been recovered; 17 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1980
Proven by exploration well 31/4-3
1993
First production reported
1993
Brage (jacket 8 legs) enters service
1996
Best year to date — 119,397 boe/d

Production by year, 1993–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
1993	17,992	425	533	18,950
1994	92,227	3,317	2,996	98,540
1995	107,739	3,839	2,624	114,201
1996	109,953	5,858	3,586	119,397
1997	101,134	3,971	2,522	107,627
1998	95,494	4,843	3,360	103,697
1999	65,457	2,715	1,920	70,092
2000	45,245	2,568	1,971	49,784
2001	38,409	2,883	2,719	44,011
2002	36,924	1,979	1,870	40,773
2003	32,364	1,696	1,403	35,462
2004	27,177	1,526	1,162	29,864
2005	25,522	2,144	1,483	29,149
2006	19,180	2,287	1,452	22,919
2007	20,592	3,000	1,840	25,431
2008	27,450	4,452	2,916	34,818
2009	28,890	2,245	1,648	32,782
2010	26,645	2,169	1,497	30,311
2011	19,529	2,232	1,511	23,272
2012	13,541	1,907	1,249	16,697
2013	10,229	1,189	749	12,166
2014	8,962	1,956	1,189	12,107
2015	11,350	2,779	1,590	15,719
2016	12,316	2,403	1,388	16,107
2017	8,794	0	0	8,794
2018	8,192	810	450	9,451
2019	8,923	1,164	674	10,761
2020	7,793	2,249	1,149	11,190
2021	6,539	1,400	670	8,610
2022	6,019	829	289	7,136
2023	10,006	2,706	922	13,632
2024	13,919	3,870	1,395	19,183
2025	13,967	3,438	1,181	18,585
2026	15,381	4,209	1,477	21,067

Average daily rates per calendar year, from Sokkeldirektoratet's monthly production figures. The final year is the average through May 2026.

Discovery and drilling

The field was proven by exploration well 31/4-3 in 1980. The directorate's wellbore register lists 137 wellbores on Brage: 10 exploration and 127 development. The deepest reaches 10,895 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 136 metres.

How it reaches market

Brage's production leaves the field by pipeline:

Statpipegas → Brage-T

Installations on Brage

BrageJacket 8 Legs1993

The first of them entered service in 1993.

Licence partners

OKEA ASA35.20%
Lime Petroleum AS33.84%
DNO Norge AS14.26%
Petrolia NOCO AS12.26%
M Vest Energy AS4.44%

The field sits in blocks 30/6, 31/4, 31/7, under production licences PL 053 B, PL 055, PL 055 B, PL 055 D, PL 185.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Brage field?: Brage is operated by OKEA ASA, in partnership with Lime Petroleum AS, DNO Norge AS, Petrolia NOCO AS and others.
How much does Brage produce?: 17,959 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.4% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 48 of 94 producing fields.
When did Brage start producing?: First production was reported in 1993, 13 years after discovery well 31/4-3 proved the field in 1980.

See it live

Brage is drawn on the NCS Live map with its outline, its pipelines and the vessels working it in real time — and på norsk. The directorate's own record is on the SODIR FactPages.

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