Who operates the Hod field?

Hod is operated by Aker BP ASA, in partnership with INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS.

How much does Hod produce?

9,474 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.2% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 57 of 94 producing fields.

When did Hod start producing?

First production was reported in 1990, 16 years after discovery well 2/11-2 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.

Hod field

Hod is producing 9,474 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.2% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 57 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

9,474 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.2%

Operator

Aker BP ASA

First oil

1990

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 9,474 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — roughly 85% oil and 10% gas by energy content. Output has moved down 12.1% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 1991, averaging 31,294 boe/d — today it runs at 30% of that.

Since 1990, Hod has produced roughly 92 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 122 million boe, of which about 75% has now been recovered; 30 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1974
Proven by exploration well 2/11-2
1990
First production reported
1991
Best year to date — 31,294 boe/d
2022
Hod B (jacket 4 legs) enters service

Production by year, 1990–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
1990	2,674	358	180	3,211
1991	26,300	3,484	1,510	31,294
1992	22,128	4,292	1,318	27,738
1993	14,960	3,511	882	19,352
1994	10,622	2,393	660	13,674
1995	9,023	2,028	557	11,608
1996	9,631	2,058	555	12,244
1997	8,059	1,632	456	10,147
1998	5,060	936	260	6,255
1999	2,254	287	88	2,628
2000	1,620	187	59	1,867
2001	6,492	736	260	7,487
2002	6,409	878	256	7,543
2003	5,680	722	247	6,649
2004	4,841	871	230	5,942
2005	3,989	610	171	4,770
2006	6,479	819	266	7,564
2007	5,208	808	236	6,251
2008	3,725	570	177	4,472
2009	3,339	469	157	3,965
2010	2,987	294	119	3,400
2011	1,208	130	45	1,383
2012	765	64	24	852
2013	613	71	21	705
2014	1,194	111	35	1,340
2015	1,180	93	31	1,304
2016	1,332	133	38	1,502
2017	1,234	117	35	1,385
2018	918	92	27	1,037
2019	686	70	24	780
2020	718	79	32	829
2021	507	52	21	580
2022	6,079	607	384	7,068
2023	10,745	1,269	666	12,680
2024	7,923	879	510	9,312
2025	7,349	839	471	8,660
2026	7,725	857	492	9,073

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 2/11-2 in 1974. The directorate's wellbore register lists 54 wellbores on Hod: 8 exploration and 32 development, plus 14 others. The deepest reaches 6,070 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 72 metres.

How it reaches market

Hod's production leaves the field by pipeline:

Tie-In (Schematic Route)oil → Valhall Ph

Installations on Hod

Hod BJacket 4 Legs2022

The first of them entered service in 2022.

Licence partners

Aker BP ASA90.00%
INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS10.00%

The field sits in block 2/11, under production licence PL 033.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Hod field?: Hod is operated by Aker BP ASA, in partnership with INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS.
How much does Hod produce?: 9,474 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.2% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 57 of 94 producing fields.
When did Hod start producing?: First production was reported in 1990, 16 years after discovery well 2/11-2 proved the field in 1974.

See it live

Hod 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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