Who operates the Marulk field?

Marulk is operated by DNO Norge AS, in partnership with Equinor Energy AS, ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.

How much does Marulk produce?

2,798 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 75 of 94 producing fields.

When did Marulk start producing?

First production was reported in 2012, 20 years after discovery well 6507/2-2 proved the field in 1992.

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.

Marulk field

Marulk is producing 2,798 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.1% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 75 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

2,798 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.1%

Operator

DNO Norge AS

First oil

2012

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 2,798 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as gas — almost entirely gas. Output has moved down 27.6% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 2015, averaging 27,896 boe/d — today it runs at 10% of that.

Since 2012, Marulk has produced roughly 70 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 87 million boe, of which about 81% has now been recovered; 18 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1992
Proven by exploration well 6507/2-2
2012
First production reported
2015
Best year to date — 27,896 boe/d

Production by year, 2012–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
2012	852	9,301	1,584	11,737
2013	453	4,673	822	5,947
2014	1,795	19,632	3,441	24,868
2015	1,793	22,194	3,909	27,896
2016	1,297	18,784	3,277	23,358
2017	996	17,120	2,807	20,922
2018	467	10,064	1,737	12,267
2019	626	7,399	1,304	9,329
2020	1,130	9,913	1,602	12,644
2021	698	9,929	1,472	12,100
2022	599	9,866	1,013	11,478
2023	372	6,380	609	7,361
2024	301	5,940	616	6,857
2025	219	4,172	378	4,770
2026	177	2,594	152	2,923

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 6507/2-2 in 1992. The directorate's wellbore register lists 8 wellbores on Marulk: 2 exploration and 6 development. The deepest reaches 4,918 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 368 metres.

Installations on Marulk

The field also has 1 subsea structures — wellheads and templates on the seabed — which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

DNO Norge AS37.00%
Equinor Energy AS33.00%
ORLEN Upstream Norway AS30.00%

The field sits in blocks 6507/2, 6507/3, 6607/11, 6607/12, under production licences PL 122, PL 122 B, PL 122 D, PL 122 C.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Marulk field?: Marulk is operated by DNO Norge AS, in partnership with Equinor Energy AS, ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.
How much does Marulk produce?: 2,798 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 75 of 94 producing fields.
When did Marulk start producing?: First production was reported in 2012, 20 years after discovery well 6507/2-2 proved the field in 1992.

See it live

Marulk 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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