Who operates the Flyndre field?

The operator is not recorded in the directorate's facility register.

How much does Flyndre produce?

1 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 95 of 94 producing fields.

When did Flyndre start producing?

First production was reported in 2017, 43 years after discovery well 1/5-2 proved the field in 1974.

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.

Flyndre field

Flyndre is producing 1 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.0% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 95 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

1 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.0%

Operator

Not recorded

First oil

2017

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 1 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil. The field's best year was 2018, averaging 409 boe/d — today it runs at 0% of that.

Timeline

1974
Proven by exploration well 1/5-2
2017
First production reported
2018
Best year to date — 409 boe/d

Production by year, 2017–2026

OilNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	NGL	Total boe/d
2017	309	4	313
2018	403	6	409
2019	272	3	275
2020	232	45	276
2021	143	28	170
2022	93	16	109
2023	0	0	0
2024	0	0	0
2025	0	0	0
2026	0	0	0

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 1/5-2 in 1974. The directorate's wellbore register lists 1 wellbores on Flyndre: 1 exploration and 0 development. The deepest reaches 4,287 metres measured depth.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Flyndre field?: The operator is not recorded in the directorate's facility register.
How much does Flyndre produce?: 1 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 95 of 94 producing fields.
When did Flyndre start producing?: First production was reported in 2017, 43 years after discovery well 1/5-2 proved the field in 1974.

See it live

Flyndre 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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