Who operates the Gina Krog field?

Gina Krog is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.

How much does Gina Krog produce?

41,833 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 1.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 26 of 94 producing fields.

When did Gina Krog start producing?

First production was reported in 2017, 39 years after discovery well 15/5-1 proved the field in 1978.

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?

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Gina Krog field

Gina Krog is producing 41,833 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 1.0% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 26 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

41,833 boe/d

Share of NCS

1.0%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

2017

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 41,833 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil/gas — roughly 13% oil and 84% gas by energy content. Output has moved down 16.9% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is declining. The field's best year was 2022, averaging 60,887 boe/d — today it runs at 69% of that.

Since 2017, Gina Krog has produced roughly 158 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 192 million boe, of which about 83% has now been recovered; 39 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1978
Proven by exploration well 15/5-1
2017
First production reported
2017
Gina Krog (jacket 4 legs) enters service
2022
Power from shore, fed from Kårstø
2022
Best year to date — 60,887 boe/d

Production by year, 2017–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
2017	12,882	10,100	1,459	24,440
2018	34,187	10,504	4,360	49,051
2019	32,070	14,712	6,466	53,248
2020	21,719	4,292	4,906	30,917
2021	15,002	12,506	2,618	30,126
2022	11,423	48,449	1,016	60,887
2023	9,055	40,177	1,124	50,356
2024	10,802	48,498	1,298	60,598
2025	7,252	47,006	1,223	55,482
2026	6,167	36,896	1,523	44,586

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 15/5-1 in 1978. The directorate's wellbore register lists 33 wellbores on Gina Krog: 10 exploration and 23 development. The deepest reaches 7,942 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 116 metres.

How it reaches market

No export pipeline is registered from Gina Krog's own installations — its production is either offloaded to shuttle tankers or routed through a host facility on a neighbouring field.

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

Installations on Gina Krog

Gina KrogJacket 4 Legs2017

The first of them entered service in 2017.

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS58.70%
ORLEN Upstream Norway AS41.30%

The field sits in blocks 15/5, 15/6, under production licences PL 048, PL 029 B, PL 029 C, PL 303.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Gina Krog field?: Gina Krog is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.
How much does Gina Krog produce?: 41,833 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 1.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 26 of 94 producing fields.
When did Gina Krog start producing?: First production was reported in 2017, 39 years after discovery well 15/5-1 proved the field in 1978.

See it live

Gina Krog 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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