Who operates the Sigyn field?

Sigyn is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Vår Energi ASA.

How much does Sigyn produce?

1,531 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 86 of 94 producing fields.

When did Sigyn start producing?

First production was reported in 2002, 20 years after discovery well 16/7-4 proved the field in 1982.

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.

Sigyn field

Sigyn is producing 1,531 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.0% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 86 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

1,531 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.0%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

2002

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 1,531 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as gas/condensate — roughly 62% oil and 29% gas by energy content. Output has moved down 22.7% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 2003, averaging 41,562 boe/d — today it runs at 4% of that.

Since 2002, Sigyn has produced roughly 126 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 133 million boe, of which about 95% has now been recovered; 8 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1982
Proven by exploration well 16/7-4
2002
First production reported
2003
Best year to date — 41,562 boe/d

Production by year, 2002–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Condensate	Total boe/d
2002	0	0	0	0	0
2003	0	15,738	10,528	15,296	41,562
2004	0	14,365	11,336	15,490	41,190
2005	0	14,540	11,329	15,035	40,903
2006	0	12,338	8,632	11,138	32,108
2007	0	11,190	8,486	10,304	29,980
2008	0	9,376	7,524	8,736	25,637
2009	0	8,352	6,378	7,587	22,317
2010	0	7,084	4,406	5,898	17,388
2011	0	7,541	4,740	5,909	18,190
2012	0	5,758	3,844	4,729	14,331
2013	0	4,686	3,035	3,555	11,277
2014	584	3,070	1,276	363	5,293
2015	1,178	3,086	1,270	0	5,535
2016	3,731	3,123	2,249	0	9,103
2017	4,738	2,393	2,123	0	9,254
2018	1,129	1,708	721	0	3,558
2019	860	1,642	699	0	3,200
2020	1,073	1,152	641	0	2,867
2021	540	1,241	368	0	2,148
2022	1,135	1,048	231	0	2,414
2023	1,022	941	229	0	2,192
2024	858	595	165	0	1,618
2025	734	384	116	0	1,234
2026	964	409	146	0	1,519

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 16/7-4 in 1982. The directorate's wellbore register lists 9 wellbores on Sigyn: 2 exploration and 6 development, plus 1 others. The deepest reaches 5,095 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 70 metres.

Installations on Sigyn

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

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS60.00%
Vår Energi ASA40.00%

The field sits in block 16/7, under production licence PL 072.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Sigyn field?: Sigyn is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Vår Energi ASA.
How much does Sigyn produce?: 1,531 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 86 of 94 producing fields.
When did Sigyn start producing?: First production was reported in 2002, 20 years after discovery well 16/7-4 proved the field in 1982.

See it live

Sigyn 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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