Who operates the Snorre field?

Snorre is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, Vår Energi ASA, INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS and others.

How much does Snorre produce?

79,039 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 1.9% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 14 of 94 producing fields.

When did Snorre start producing?

First production was reported in 1992, 13 years after discovery well 34/4-1 proved the field in 1979.

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?

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Snorre field

Snorre is producing 79,039 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 1.9% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 14 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

79,039 boe/d

Share of NCS

1.9%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

1992

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 79,039 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — almost entirely oil. Output has moved down 10.2% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 2003, averaging 252,820 boe/d — today it runs at 31% of that.

Since 1992, Snorre has produced roughly 1,698 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 2,110 million boe, of which about 80% has now been recovered; 426 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1899
34/7 Hy10 (offshore wind turbine) enters service
1899
34/7 Hy11 (offshore wind turbine) enters service
1979
Proven by exploration well 34/4-1
1992
First production reported
1992
Snorre A (tlp steel) enters service
2001
Snorre B (semisub steel) enters service
2003
Best year to date — 252,820 boe/d
2022
34/7 Hy01 (offshore wind turbine) enters service
2023
34/7 Hy02 (offshore wind turbine) enters service
2023
34/7 Hy03 (offshore wind turbine) enters service
2023
34/7 Hy04 (offshore wind turbine) enters service

Production by year, 1992–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Condensate	Total boe/d
1992	26,776	0	1,491	0	28,267
1993	119,057	3,711	8,538	0	131,306
1994	170,120	7,819	10,520	0	188,460
1995	196,012	10,813	11,712	0	218,538
1996	197,327	10,500	10,790	0	218,616
1997	185,600	9,947	9,791	0	205,339
1998	173,899	7,878	10,595	0	192,372
1999	161,967	5,312	9,607	0	176,886
2000	147,582	5,027	9,194	0	161,803
2001	198,955	8,970	16,806	0	224,732
2002	217,831	7,747	16,138	0	241,716
2003	234,337	6,996	11,488	0	252,820
2004	198,304	3,311	4,500	0	206,114
2005	154,335	5,904	6,973	0	167,212
2006	143,295	2,527	3,798	0	149,620
2007	144,440	1,109	1,454	0	147,002
2008	145,594	3,936	3,153	38	152,721
2009	103,497	2,403	1,644	95	107,639
2010	100,471	2,372	1,641	91	104,576
2011	95,066	2,044	1,511	71	98,691
2012	76,480	591	439	31	77,540
2013	87,689	320	468	65	88,540
2014	96,839	155	100	3	97,097
2015	109,597	0	0	0	109,597
2016	98,373	0	0	0	98,373
2017	82,990	1,178	1,949	0	86,118
2018	91,901	0	0	0	91,901
2019	51,852	198	543	0	52,592
2020	67,259	0	0	0	67,259
2021	100,421	0	0	0	100,421
2022	104,472	0	0	0	104,472
2023	94,630	0	0	0	94,630
2024	86,103	0	0	0	86,103
2025	86,646	0	0	0	86,646
2026	77,055	0	0	0	77,055

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 34/4-1 in 1979. The directorate's wellbore register lists 198 wellbores on Snorre: 13 exploration and 179 development, plus 6 others. The deepest reaches 7,235 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 327 to 377 metres.

Installations on Snorre

34/7 Hy01Offshore Wind Turbine2022
34/7 Hy02Offshore Wind Turbine2023
34/7 Hy03Offshore Wind Turbine2023
34/7 Hy04Offshore Wind Turbine2023
34/7 Hy10Offshore Wind Turbine1899
34/7 Hy11Offshore Wind Turbine1899
Snorre ATlp Steel1992
Snorre BSemisub Steel2001

The first of them entered service in 1899. The field also has 15 subsea structures — wellheads and templates on the seabed — which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS33.28%
Petoro AS30.00%
Vår Energi ASA18.55%
INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS9.60%
Harbour Energy Norge AS8.57%

The field sits in blocks 34/4, 34/7, under production licences PL 057, PL 089.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Snorre field?: Snorre is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, Vår Energi ASA, INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS and others.
How much does Snorre produce?: 79,039 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 1.9% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 14 of 94 producing fields.
When did Snorre start producing?: First production was reported in 1992, 13 years after discovery well 34/4-1 proved the field in 1979.

See it live

Snorre 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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