Who operates the Gjøa field?

Gjøa is operated by Vår Energi ASA, in partnership with Petoro AS, Harbour Energy Norge AS, OKEA ASA.

How much does Gjøa produce?

31,787 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.8% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 28 of 94 producing fields.

When did Gjøa start producing?

First production was reported in 2010, 21 years after discovery well 35/9-1 proved the field in 1989.

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.

Gjøa field

Gjøa is producing 31,787 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.8% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 28 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

31,787 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.8%

Operator

Vår Energi ASA

First oil

2010

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 31,787 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil/gas — almost entirely gas. Output has moved down 17.7% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 2013, averaging 138,469 boe/d — today it runs at 23% of that.

Since 2010, Gjøa has produced roughly 505 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 508 million boe, of which about 99% has now been recovered; 23 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1989
Proven by exploration well 35/9-1
2010
First production reported
2010
Gjøa (semisub steel) enters service
2010
Power from shore, fed from Mongstad
2013
Best year to date — 138,469 boe/d

Production by year, 2010–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Condensate	Total boe/d
2010	4,153	2,120	618	117	7,008
2011	37,040	30,460	14,578	1,225	83,302
2012	47,476	50,430	30,040	2,964	130,910
2013	33,342	66,969	34,837	3,321	138,469
2014	24,563	60,571	32,017	2,882	120,033
2015	22,649	67,134	33,471	3,259	126,514
2016	20,453	72,077	36,620	0	129,149
2017	13,961	62,860	34,283	0	111,103
2018	12,342	63,745	36,463	0	112,548
2019	8,814	48,558	23,872	0	81,244
2020	7,054	40,288	21,573	0	68,916
2021	12,623	41,992	20,128	0	74,743
2022	9,465	44,600	12,383	0	66,447
2023	3,942	37,243	10,813	0	51,997
2024	3,517	22,728	11,223	0	37,468
2025	2,624	19,609	6,817	0	29,050
2026	1,045	23,041	7,034	0	31,121

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 35/9-1 in 1989. The directorate's wellbore register lists 43 wellbores on Gjøa: 9 exploration and 31 development, plus 3 others. The deepest reaches 6,449 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 150 to 370 metres.

How it reaches market

Gjøa's production leaves the field by pipeline:

Gjøa Gassrørgas → Gjøa-T
Gjøa Oljerøroil → Tor II Y

The field has run on power from shore — fed from Mongstad since 2010 — rather than on gas turbines offshore.

Installations on Gjøa

GjøaSemisub Steel2010

The first of them entered service in 2010. The field also has 7 subsea structures — wellheads and templates on the seabed — which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

Vår Energi ASA30.00%
Petoro AS30.00%
Harbour Energy Norge AS28.00%
OKEA ASA12.00%

The field sits in blocks 35/9, 36/7, under production licences PL 153.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Gjøa field?: Gjøa is operated by Vår Energi ASA, in partnership with Petoro AS, Harbour Energy Norge AS, OKEA ASA.
How much does Gjøa produce?: 31,787 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.8% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 28 of 94 producing fields.
When did Gjøa start producing?: First production was reported in 2010, 21 years after discovery well 35/9-1 proved the field in 1989.

See it live

Gjøa 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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