Who operates the Skarv field?

Skarv is operated by Aker BP ASA, in partnership with Equinor Energy AS, Harbour Energy Norge AS, ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.

How much does Skarv produce?

117,673 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 2.8% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 8 of 94 producing fields.

When did Skarv start producing?

First production was reported in 2012, 14 years after discovery well 6507/5-1 proved the field in 1998.

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.

Skarv field

Skarv is producing 117,673 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 2.8% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 8 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

117,673 boe/d

Share of NCS

2.8%

Operator

Aker BP ASA

First oil

2012

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 117,673 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil/gas — almost entirely gas. Output has moved down 6.4% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is mature. The field's best year was 2023, averaging 149,994 boe/d — today it runs at 78% of that.

Since 2012, Skarv has produced roughly 595 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 711 million boe, of which about 84% has now been recovered; 138 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1998
Proven by exploration well 6507/5-1
2012
First production reported
2012
Skarv Fpso (fpso) enters service
2023
Best year to date — 149,994 boe/d

Production by year, 2012–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
2012	0	0	0	0
2013	36,601	51,461	12,349	100,410
2014	58,253	62,264	13,982	134,498
2015	52,833	68,582	15,323	136,737
2016	39,507	69,653	15,123	124,283
2017	27,631	69,845	14,856	112,332
2018	26,264	65,569	14,783	106,616
2019	22,101	58,073	12,675	92,849
2020	20,241	55,738	12,174	88,153
2021	26,430	77,716	15,508	119,654
2022	25,274	106,173	15,071	146,518
2023	20,759	112,537	16,698	149,994
2024	14,370	104,280	15,700	134,349
2025	12,275	107,344	14,697	134,316
2026	10,435	92,283	12,453	115,171

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 6507/5-1 in 1998. The directorate's wellbore register lists 48 wellbores on Skarv: 13 exploration and 31 development, plus 4 others. The deepest reaches 7,043 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 324 to 420 metres.

How it reaches market

Skarv's production leaves the field by pipeline:

Skarv Gassrørgas → Åsgard T

Installations on Skarv

Skarv FpsoFpso2012

The first of them entered service in 2012. The field also has 10 subsea structures — wellheads and templates on the seabed — which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS36.17%
Harbour Energy Norge AS28.08%
Aker BP ASA23.84%
ORLEN Upstream Norway AS11.92%

The field sits in blocks 6507/2, 6507/3, 6507/5, 6507/6, under production licences PL 261 C, PL 262, PL 159, PL 212 B, PL 212.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Skarv field?: Skarv is operated by Aker BP ASA, in partnership with Equinor Energy AS, Harbour Energy Norge AS, ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.
How much does Skarv produce?: 117,673 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 2.8% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 8 of 94 producing fields.
When did Skarv start producing?: First production was reported in 2012, 14 years after discovery well 6507/5-1 proved the field in 1998.

See it live

Skarv 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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