Who operates the Gungne field?

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

How much does Gungne produce?

2,183 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 80 of 94 producing fields.

When did Gungne start producing?

First production was reported in 1996, 14 years after discovery well 15/9-15 proved the field in 1982.

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.

Gungne field

Gungne is producing 2,183 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.1% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 80 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

2,183 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.1%

Operator

Not recorded

First oil

1996

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 2,183 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as gas — roughly 14% oil and 81% gas by energy content. Output has moved up 2.8% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is mature. The field's best year was 2003, averaging 17,041 boe/d — today it runs at 13% of that.

Since 1996, Gungne has produced roughly 67 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 160 million boe, of which about 42% has now been recovered; 1 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1982
Proven by exploration well 15/9-15
1996
First production reported
2003
Best year to date — 17,041 boe/d

Production by year, 1996–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Condensate	Total boe/d
1996	0	0	628	1,064	1,692
1997	0	0	3,852	6,771	10,622
1998	0	0	1,763	3,109	4,872
1999	0	0	2,376	4,334	6,711
2000	0	0	2,175	2,941	5,115
2001	0	0	4,817	5,418	10,235
2002	0	0	5,247	7,677	12,925
2003	0	0	7,172	9,868	17,041
2004	0	0	5,756	8,001	13,757
2005	0	0	5,888	5,928	11,816
2006	0	0	4,989	4,494	9,483
2007	0	0	4,629	3,894	8,523
2008	0	0	4,168	3,660	7,828
2009	0	0	3,284	2,542	5,826
2010	0	0	2,447	2,061	4,508
2011	0	0	2,082	1,298	3,380
2012	0	0	1,728	1,117	2,845
2013	0	0	1,598	1,202	2,800
2014	748	3,762	1,195	268	5,972
2015	924	4,556	989	0	6,469
2016	816	3,893	757	0	5,467
2017	637	3,045	597	0	4,279
2018	495	2,514	457	0	3,466
2019	453	2,291	475	0	3,219
2020	404	2,105	382	0	2,891
2021	382	2,031	233	0	2,644
2022	334	1,967	81	0	2,382
2023	308	1,763	93	0	2,164
2024	300	1,589	85	0	1,975
2025	295	1,612	82	0	1,990
2026	314	1,733	90	0	2,137

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 15/9-15 in 1982. The directorate's wellbore register lists 5 wellbores on Gungne: 2 exploration and 3 development. The deepest reaches 8,561 metres measured depth.

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS62.00%
ORLEN Upstream Norway AS25.00%
Vår Energi ASA13.00%

The field sits in block 15/9, under production licence PL 046.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Gungne field?: The operator is not recorded in the directorate's facility register.
How much does Gungne produce?: 2,183 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 80 of 94 producing fields.
When did Gungne start producing?: First production was reported in 1996, 14 years after discovery well 15/9-15 proved the field in 1982.

See it live

Gungne 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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