Who operates the Oseberg Øst field?

Oseberg Øst is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, TotalEnergies EP Norge AS, ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS.

How much does Oseberg Øst produce?

2,401 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 77 of 94 producing fields.

When did Oseberg Øst start producing?

First production was reported in 1999, 18 years after discovery well 30/6-5 proved the field in 1981.

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.

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Oseberg Øst field

Oseberg Øst is producing 2,401 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.1% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 77 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

2,401 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.1%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

1999

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 2,401 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — almost entirely oil. Output has moved down 6.7% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 2001, averaging 65,707 boe/d — today it runs at 4% of that.

Since 1999, Oseberg Øst has produced roughly 154 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 157 million boe, of which about 98% has now been recovered; 1 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1981
Proven by exploration well 30/6-5
1999
First production reported
1999
Oseberg Øst (jacket 4 legs) enters service
2001
Best year to date — 65,707 boe/d

Production by year, 1999–2026

OilGasboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	Total boe/d
1999	15,698	0	15,698
2000	43,885	0	43,885
2001	65,707	0	65,707
2002	53,640	527	54,168
2003	37,709	1,412	39,121
2004	30,897	1,145	32,042
2005	18,299	640	18,938
2006	11,431	412	11,843
2007	9,286	337	9,623
2008	7,536	136	7,672
2009	6,039	110	6,149
2010	6,013	113	6,126
2011	8,899	170	9,068
2012	7,821	148	7,968
2013	6,582	121	6,704
2014	6,490	116	6,607
2015	6,652	120	6,772
2016	7,869	145	8,013
2017	13,784	255	14,038
2018	9,230	172	9,402
2019	7,846	146	7,992
2020	7,347	139	7,486
2021	5,520	110	5,630
2022	4,246	80	4,326
2023	5,786	113	5,899
2024	4,896	96	4,992
2025	4,330	85	4,415
2026	3,183	63	3,246

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 30/6-5 in 1981. The directorate's wellbore register lists 53 wellbores on Oseberg Øst: 7 exploration and 46 development. The deepest reaches 7,060 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 157 metres.

Installations on Oseberg Øst

Oseberg ØstJacket 4 Legs1999

The first of them entered service in 1999.

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS49.30%
Petoro AS33.60%
TotalEnergies EP Norge AS14.70%
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS2.40%

The field sits in block 30/6, under production licence PL 053.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Oseberg Øst field?: Oseberg Øst is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, TotalEnergies EP Norge AS, ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS.
How much does Oseberg Øst produce?: 2,401 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 77 of 94 producing fields.
When did Oseberg Øst start producing?: First production was reported in 1999, 18 years after discovery well 30/6-5 proved the field in 1981.

See it live

Oseberg Øst 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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