Who operates the Ringhorne Øst field?

The operator is not recorded in the directorate's facility register.

How much does Ringhorne Øst produce?

4,427 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 69 of 94 producing fields.

When did Ringhorne Øst start producing?

First production was reported in 2006, 3 years after discovery well 25/8-14 S proved the field in 2003.

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.

Ringhorne Øst field

Ringhorne Øst is producing 4,427 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.1% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 69 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

4,427 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.1%

Operator

Not recorded

First oil

2006

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 4,427 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — almost entirely oil. Output has moved up 166.0% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is growing. The field's best year was 2008, averaging 34,628 boe/d — today it runs at 13% of that.

Since 2006, Ringhorne Øst has produced roughly 87 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 98 million boe, of which about 89% has now been recovered; 7 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

2003
Proven by exploration well 25/8-14 S
2006
First production reported
2008
Best year to date — 34,628 boe/d

Production by year, 2006–2026

OilGasboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	Total boe/d
2006	16,100	534	16,634
2007	27,946	425	28,371
2008	34,019	609	34,628
2009	27,632	749	28,380
2010	18,852	540	19,392
2011	16,291	479	16,771
2012	15,849	403	16,252
2013	14,903	178	15,081
2014	12,091	211	12,302
2015	10,925	259	11,184
2016	8,907	209	9,116
2017	7,563	0	7,563
2018	4,776	0	4,776
2019	4,830	0	4,830
2020	3,210	0	3,210
2021	1,805	0	1,805
2022	1,962	0	1,962
2023	834	0	834
2024	1,351	0	1,351
2025	1,643	0	1,643
2026	4,552	0	4,552

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 25/8-14 S in 2003. The directorate's wellbore register lists 13 wellbores on Ringhorne Øst: 2 exploration and 11 development. The deepest reaches 6,565 metres measured depth.

Licence partners

Vår Energi ASA92.60%
Kistos Energy (Norway) AS7.40%

The field sits in blocks 25/8, under production licences PL 027, PL 169 E.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Ringhorne Øst field?: The operator is not recorded in the directorate's facility register.
How much does Ringhorne Øst produce?: 4,427 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 69 of 94 producing fields.
When did Ringhorne Øst start producing?: First production was reported in 2006, 3 years after discovery well 25/8-14 S proved the field in 2003.

See it live

Ringhorne 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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