Who operates the Kristin field?

Kristin is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, Vår Energi ASA, TotalEnergies EP Norge AS.

How much does Kristin produce?

25,792 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026, 0.6% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 36 of 94 producing fields.

When did Kristin start producing?

First production was reported in 2005, 10 years after discovery well 6406/2-1 proved the field in 1995.

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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Kristin field

Kristin is producing 25,792 barrels of oil equivalent a day, 0.6% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 36 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

25,792 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.6%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

2005

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 25,792 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as gas/condensate, roughly 22% oil and 65% gas by energy content. Output has moved up 27.7% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is growing. The field's best year was 2008, averaging 171,220 boe/d, today it runs at 15% of that.

Since 2005, Kristin has produced roughly 429 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 517 million boe, of which about 83% has now been recovered; 87 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1995
Proven by exploration well 6406/2-1
2005
First production reported
2005
Kristin (semisub steel) enters service
2008
Best year to date: 171,220 boe/d

Production by year, 2005–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Condensate	Total boe/d
2005	0	3,266	1,303	3,361	7,931
2006	18,431	44,983	19,277	32,772	115,463
2007	73,716	63,591	27,191	0	164,497
2008	75,583	67,711	27,926	0	171,220
2009	49,348	48,741	20,295	0	118,384
2010	30,161	36,982	15,568	0	82,711
2011	24,322	34,133	15,360	0	73,815
2012	19,579	28,262	11,995	0	59,836
2013	13,769	18,465	6,513	0	38,747
2014	15,256	22,703	7,873	0	45,832
2015	13,193	20,887	10,210	0	44,289
2016	10,409	17,018	6,927	0	34,353
2017	9,858	17,528	7,560	0	34,946
2018	9,183	15,657	7,096	0	31,936
2019	7,182	13,797	5,764	0	26,743
2020	5,834	11,735	5,303	0	22,871
2021	5,095	9,766	4,262	0	19,123
2022	4,329	8,659	2,168	0	15,155
2023	3,835	6,982	1,687	0	12,504
2024	4,010	8,065	1,882	0	13,956
2025	6,708	17,872	3,710	0	28,290
2026	5,950	17,010	3,319	0	26,278

Average daily rates per calendar year, from Sokkeldirektoratet's monthly production figures. The final year is the average through May 2026.

Emissions to air, 2003 to 2025

In 2025 Kristin released 306,720 tonnes of CO₂ and 365 tonnes of NOx to air, as reported by the operator to the Norwegian Environment Agency. That is 2% more than in 2020. The peak was 372,090 tonnes in 2013.

Offshore combustion, flaring and process emissions from the field's own installations; onshore terminals report separately. Source: norskeutslipp.no (Miljødirektoratet), 1997 onwards.

Discovery and drilling

The field was proven by exploration well 6406/2-1 in 1995. The directorate's wellbore register lists 41 wellbores on Kristin: 12 exploration and 29 development. The deepest reaches 7,413 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 270 to 372 metres.

Installations on Kristin

KristinSemisub Steel2005

The first of them entered service in 2005. The field also has 6 subsea structures, wellheads and templates on the seabed, which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

Equinor Energy ASoperator54.82%
Petoro AS22.52%
Vår Energi ASA16.66%
TotalEnergies EP Norge AS6.00%

The field sits in blocks 6406/1, 6406/2, 6506/11, under production licences PL 257, PL 199, PL 134 D.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Kristin field?: Kristin is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, Vår Energi ASA, TotalEnergies EP Norge AS.
How much does Kristin produce?: 25,792 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026, 0.6% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 36 of 94 producing fields.
When did Kristin start producing?: First production was reported in 2005, 10 years after discovery well 6406/2-1 proved the field in 1995.

See it live

Kristin 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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