Who operates the Gimle field?

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

How much does Gimle produce?

625 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 89 of 94 producing fields.

When did Gimle start producing?

First production was reported in 2005, 4 years after discovery well 34/8-12 S proved the field in 2001.

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.

Gimle field

Gimle is producing 625 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.0% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 89 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

625 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.0%

Operator

Not recorded

First oil

2005

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 625 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — almost entirely gas. Output has moved up 150.0% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is growing. The field's best year was 2008, averaging 10,507 boe/d — today it runs at 6% of that.

Since 2005, Gimle has produced roughly 29 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 31 million boe, of which about 95% has now been recovered; 3 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

2001
Proven by exploration well 34/8-12 S
2005
First production reported
2008
Best year to date — 10,507 boe/d

Production by year, 2005–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
2005	5,171	1,063	369	6,604
2006	4,406	204	73	4,683
2007	9,478	0	0	9,478
2008	10,507	0	0	10,507
2009	5,735	0	0	5,735
2010	3,907	0	0	3,907
2011	3,440	0	0	3,440
2012	2,482	5,693	2,279	10,453
2013	1,754	5,623	2,165	9,543
2014	1,050	0	0	1,050
2015	1,348	1,834	808	3,989
2016	872	614	273	1,759
2017	524	131	54	709
2018	8	1	0	9
2019	29	743	283	1,055
2020	0	4	2	6
2021	1,219	116	31	1,367
2022	1,105	235	50	1,391
2023	651	327	70	1,048
2024	580	208	48	837
2025	923	1,176	238	2,337
2026	39	1,565	303	1,907

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 34/8-12 S in 2001. The directorate's wellbore register lists 13 wellbores on Gimle: 4 exploration and 9 development. The deepest reaches 8,505 metres measured depth.

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS74.66%
Petoro AS25.34%

The field sits in blocks 34/10, 34/7, 34/8, under production licences PL 050 DS, PL 120 B.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Gimle field?: The operator is not recorded in the directorate's facility register.
How much does Gimle produce?: 625 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 89 of 94 producing fields.
When did Gimle start producing?: First production was reported in 2005, 4 years after discovery well 34/8-12 S proved the field in 2001.

See it live

Gimle 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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