Who operates the Njord field?

Njord is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Harbour Energy Norge AS, Vår Energi ASA.

How much does Njord produce?

54,039 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 1.3% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 17 of 94 producing fields.

When did Njord start producing?

First production was reported in 1997, 11 years after discovery well 6407/7-1 S proved the field in 1986.

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.

Njord field

Njord is producing 54,039 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 1.3% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 17 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

54,039 boe/d

Share of NCS

1.3%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

1997

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 54,039 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — roughly 25% oil and 60% gas by energy content. Output has moved up 228.9% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is growing. The field's best year was 2000, averaging 67,390 boe/d — today it runs at 80% of that.

Since 1997, Njord has produced roughly 288 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 417 million boe, of which about 69% has now been recovered; 131 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1986
Proven by exploration well 6407/7-1 S
1997
First production reported
1997
Njord Stl (loading system) enters service
2000
Best year to date — 67,390 boe/d
2022
Njord A (semisub steel) enters service
2022
Njord Bravo (fsu) enters service

Production by year, 1997–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
1997	6,325	0	0	6,325
1998	29,220	0	0	29,220
1999	60,705	0	0	60,705
2000	67,390	0	0	67,390
2001	50,610	0	0	50,610
2002	32,107	0	0	32,107
2003	30,400	0	0	30,400
2004	29,028	0	0	29,028
2005	31,539	0	0	31,539
2006	23,991	0	0	23,991
2007	18,146	1,293	578	20,017
2008	16,282	34,326	15,545	66,153
2009	12,805	31,437	14,469	58,711
2010	16,564	30,629	13,751	60,944
2011	9,317	23,859	10,577	43,753
2012	5,446	13,000	5,657	24,103
2013	4,647	9,344	3,755	17,746
2014	6,372	10,505	4,741	21,617
2015	6,593	16,610	7,265	30,468
2016	1,639	3,442	1,563	6,644
2017	0	0	0	0
2018	0	0	0	0
2019	0	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0	0
2022	18	0	0	18
2023	5,191	8,164	2,151	15,506
2024	2,680	8,043	2,133	12,856
2025	3,511	18,532	4,527	26,569
2026	13,607	34,088	8,369	56,064

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 6407/7-1 S in 1986. The directorate's wellbore register lists 54 wellbores on Njord: 8 exploration and 46 development. The deepest reaches 6,602 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 100.5 to 330 metres.

Installations on Njord

Njord ASemisub Steel2022
Njord BravoFsu2022
Njord StlLoading System1997

The first of them entered service in 1997. The field also has 15 subsea structures — wellheads and templates on the seabed — which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

Harbour Energy Norge AS50.00%
Equinor Energy AS27.50%
Vår Energi ASA22.50%

The field sits in blocks 6407/10, 6407/7, under production licences PL 132, PL 107, PL 107 C.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Njord field?: Njord is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Harbour Energy Norge AS, Vår Energi ASA.
How much does Njord produce?: 54,039 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 1.3% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 17 of 94 producing fields.
When did Njord start producing?: First production was reported in 1997, 11 years after discovery well 6407/7-1 S proved the field in 1986.

See it live

Njord 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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