Who operates the Edvard Grieg field?

Edvard Grieg is operated by Aker BP ASA, in partnership with OMV Norge AS, Harbour Energy Norge AS.

How much does Edvard Grieg produce?

23,402 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.6% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 41 of 94 producing fields.

When did Edvard Grieg start producing?

First production was reported in 2015, 8 years after discovery well 16/1-8 proved the field in 2007.

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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Edvard Grieg field

Edvard Grieg is producing 23,402 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.6% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 41 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

23,402 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.6%

Operator

Aker BP ASA

First oil

2015

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 23,402 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — almost entirely oil. Output has moved down 11.0% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 2021, averaging 111,360 boe/d — today it runs at 21% of that.

Since 2015, Edvard Grieg has produced roughly 315 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 392 million boe, of which about 80% has now been recovered; 81 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

2007
Proven by exploration well 16/1-8
2015
First production reported
2015
Edvard Grieg (jacket 4 legs) enters service
2021
Best year to date — 111,360 boe/d
2022
Power from shore, fed from Kårstø

Production by year, 2015–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
2015	2,605	143	25	2,773
2016	67,062	5,571	2,293	74,925
2017	93,290	8,536	4,753	106,578
2018	87,940	7,943	4,765	100,648
2019	86,125	8,603	4,297	99,025
2020	86,953	7,725	4,274	98,952
2021	98,042	8,468	4,851	111,360
2022	88,526	8,130	4,847	101,502
2023	71,344	7,328	4,380	83,052
2024	36,829	3,416	1,879	42,124
2025	25,097	2,932	1,615	29,644
2026	22,759	2,235	873	25,867

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 16/1-8 in 2007. The directorate's wellbore register lists 39 wellbores on Edvard Grieg: 12 exploration and 27 development. The deepest reaches 6,702 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 109 metres.

How it reaches market

Edvard Grieg's production leaves the field by pipeline:

Edvard Grieg Oljerøroil → Grane-Y
Utsirahøyden Gassrørgas → Sage-T

The field has run on power from shore — fed from Kårstø since 2022 — rather than on gas turbines offshore.

Installations on Edvard Grieg

Edvard GriegJacket 4 Legs2015

The first of them entered service in 2015.

Licence partners

Aker BP ASA65.00%
OMV Norge AS20.00%
Harbour Energy Norge AS15.00%

The field sits in block 16/1, under production licence PL 338.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Edvard Grieg field?: Edvard Grieg is operated by Aker BP ASA, in partnership with OMV Norge AS, Harbour Energy Norge AS.
How much does Edvard Grieg produce?: 23,402 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.6% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 41 of 94 producing fields.
When did Edvard Grieg start producing?: First production was reported in 2015, 8 years after discovery well 16/1-8 proved the field in 2007.

See it live

Edvard Grieg 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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