Who operates the Eldfisk field?

Eldfisk is operated by ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS, in partnership with TotalEnergies EP Norge AS, Vår Energi ASA, DNO Norge AS and others.

How much does Eldfisk produce?

44,032 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 1.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 23 of 94 producing fields.

When did Eldfisk start producing?

First production was reported in 1979, 9 years after discovery well 2/7-1 proved the field in 1970.

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.

Is NCS Live free to use?

Yes, free and with no account. It is a public visualisation of open data, built and designed by Smpl and Melvær&Co in Norway.

Eldfisk field

Eldfisk is producing 44,032 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 1.0% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 23 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

44,032 boe/d

Share of NCS

1.0%

Operator

ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS

First oil

1979

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 44,032 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — roughly 82% oil and 15% gas by energy content. Output has moved down 12.9% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 1980, averaging 131,752 boe/d — today it runs at 33% of that.

Since 1979, Eldfisk has produced roughly 1,157 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 1,331 million boe, of which about 87% has now been recovered; 178 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1970
Proven by exploration well 2/7-1
1979
First production reported
1979
Eldfisk A (jacket 12 legs) enters service
1979
Eldfisk B (jacket 12 legs) enters service
1979
Eldfisk B-Fl (jacket tripod) enters service
1979
Eldfisk Ftp (jacket 8 legs) enters service
1980
Best year to date — 131,752 boe/d
1999
Eldfisk E (jacket 4 legs) enters service
2015
Eldfisk S (jacket 8 legs) enters service
2015
Eldfisk S-Bs (jacket 4 legs) enters service

Production by year, 1979–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
1979	29,506	7,110	1,253	37,868
1980	100,969	25,708	5,075	131,752
1981	85,014	26,040	4,841	115,895
1982	70,908	23,870	4,802	99,580
1983	64,019	24,811	5,665	94,496
1984	58,096	23,872	5,080	87,048
1985	58,204	24,017	5,692	87,914
1986	57,861	24,872	5,270	88,002
1987	54,197	23,412	5,073	82,681
1988	65,677	38,611	8,775	113,064
1989	72,472	26,996	9,631	109,099
1990	63,435	22,574	8,292	94,300
1991	51,362	34,160	5,664	91,186
1992	47,859	31,648	4,660	84,167
1993	42,236	29,494	4,321	76,051
1994	38,426	26,687	3,953	69,066
1995	46,395	34,384	5,026	85,804
1996	40,113	28,709	4,175	72,996
1997	40,550	29,348	4,473	74,371
1998	26,149	18,403	2,908	47,461
1999	20,061	9,594	1,735	31,390
2000	21,875	11,408	2,013	35,297
2001	34,396	12,912	2,507	49,815
2002	41,229	15,961	2,816	60,006
2003	41,679	12,789	2,440	56,907
2004	54,363	15,208	3,171	72,743
2005	60,502	14,822	3,065	78,388
2006	51,910	11,955	2,627	66,491
2007	45,566	9,201	2,086	56,852
2008	51,943	9,666	2,346	63,955
2009	49,252	8,355	2,022	59,629
2010	49,527	8,703	1,978	60,207
2011	49,870	8,198	1,863	59,930
2012	45,456	4,873	1,533	51,862
2013	33,259	4,428	1,196	38,883
2014	33,689	4,747	1,195	39,631
2015	41,030	5,871	1,474	48,376
2016	42,240	5,583	1,425	49,247
2017	43,643	5,873	1,452	50,967
2018	41,866	4,769	1,332	47,966
2019	40,070	4,215	1,412	45,697
2020	42,635	3,812	1,639	48,085
2021	44,959	4,018	1,742	50,719
2022	39,638	3,490	1,468	44,596
2023	38,690	3,314	1,514	43,517
2024	40,026	5,646	1,739	47,410
2025	38,615	6,998	1,595	47,207
2026	35,461	6,181	1,459	43,101

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 2/7-1 in 1970. The directorate's wellbore register lists 255 wellbores on Eldfisk: 6 exploration and 219 development, plus 30 others. The deepest reaches 6,542 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 70 to 76.8 metres.

Installations on Eldfisk

Eldfisk AJacket 12 Legs1979
Eldfisk BJacket 12 Legs1979
Eldfisk B-FlJacket Tripod1979
Eldfisk EJacket 4 Legs1999
Eldfisk FtpJacket 8 Legs1979
Eldfisk SJacket 8 Legs2015
Eldfisk S-BsJacket 4 Legs2015

The first of them entered service in 1979. The field also has 3 subsea structures — wellheads and templates on the seabed — which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

TotalEnergies EP Norge AS39.90%
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS35.11%
Vår Energi ASA12.39%
DNO Norge AS7.60%
Petoro AS5.00%

The field sits in block 2/7, under production licence PL 018.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Eldfisk field?: Eldfisk is operated by ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS, in partnership with TotalEnergies EP Norge AS, Vår Energi ASA, DNO Norge AS and others.
How much does Eldfisk produce?: 44,032 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 1.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 23 of 94 producing fields.
When did Eldfisk start producing?: First production was reported in 1979, 9 years after discovery well 2/7-1 proved the field in 1970.

See it live

Eldfisk 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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