Who operates the Norne field?

Norne is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, DNO Norge AS.

How much does Norne produce?

11,031 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.3% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 54 of 94 producing fields.

When did Norne start producing?

First production was reported in 1997, 5 years after discovery well 6608/10-2 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.

Norne field

Norne is producing 11,031 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.3% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 54 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

11,031 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.3%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

1997

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 11,031 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil/gas — roughly 45% oil and 49% gas by energy content. Output has moved up 29.2% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is growing. The field's best year was 2001, averaging 216,973 boe/d — today it runs at 5% of that.

Since 1997, Norne has produced roughly 680 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 686 million boe, of which about 99% has now been recovered; 8 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1992
Proven by exploration well 6608/10-2
1997
First production reported
1997
Norne Fpso (fpso) enters service
2001
Best year to date — 216,973 boe/d

Production by year, 1997–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
1997	7,156	0	0	7,156
1998	108,838	0	0	108,838
1999	143,120	0	0	143,120
2000	179,080	0	0	179,080
2001	194,685	18,697	3,592	216,973
2002	176,977	13,608	2,515	193,100
2003	147,373	13,030	3,124	163,528
2004	120,432	16,432	3,522	140,386
2005	90,765	16,297	3,581	110,643
2006	83,565	7,496	1,962	93,023
2007	73,658	8,787	2,320	84,764
2008	59,834	5,892	1,580	67,306
2009	38,158	3,108	836	42,101
2010	33,281	2,918	785	36,984
2011	27,825	4,436	1,234	33,495
2012	12,777	2,717	757	16,251
2013	13,825	2,106	631	16,562
2014	12,160	2,043	760	14,964
2015	10,878	3,173	1,069	15,119
2016	7,390	2,219	568	10,177
2017	9,822	1,743	476	12,041
2018	10,593	3,078	630	14,300
2019	9,881	12,207	2,205	24,292
2020	9,388	15,578	2,531	27,496
2021	10,092	14,235	1,959	26,285
2022	7,276	16,023	1,430	24,729
2023	4,502	13,905	1,176	19,583
2024	3,069	5,314	412	8,794
2025	2,136	3,476	324	5,936
2026	5,410	5,212	646	11,268

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 6608/10-2 in 1992. The directorate's wellbore register lists 63 wellbores on Norne: 4 exploration and 59 development. The deepest reaches 6,069 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 374 to 380 metres.

Installations on Norne

Norne FpsoFpso1997

The first of them entered service in 1997. The field also has 7 subsea structures — wellheads and templates on the seabed — which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

Petoro AS54.00%
Equinor Energy AS39.10%
DNO Norge AS6.90%

The field sits in blocks 6508/1, 6608/10, under production licences PL 128 B, PL 128.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Norne field?: Norne is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, DNO Norge AS.
How much does Norne produce?: 11,031 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.3% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 54 of 94 producing fields.
When did Norne start producing?: First production was reported in 1997, 5 years after discovery well 6608/10-2 proved the field in 1992.

See it live

Norne 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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