Who operates the Statfjord field?

Statfjord is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with OKEA ASA, Vår Energi ASA, Equinor UK Limited.

How much does Statfjord produce?

15,587 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.4% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 50 of 94 producing fields.

When did Statfjord start producing?

First production was reported in 1979, 5 years after discovery well 33/12-1 proved the field in 1974.

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.

Statfjord field

Statfjord is producing 15,587 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.4% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 50 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

15,587 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.4%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

1979

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 15,587 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — roughly 49% oil and 36% gas by energy content. Output has moved down 25.7% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 1992, averaging 713,239 boe/d — today it runs at 2% of that.

Since 1979, Statfjord has produced roughly 4,441 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 4,512 million boe, of which about 98% has now been recovered; 79 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

The story of Statfjord

Statfjord was for years the largest oil field in the North Sea, straddling the boundary with the British sector. Discovered in 1974, it was built out with three Condeep concrete giants — Statfjord A on stream in 1979, B in 1982 and C in 1985 — and through the late eighties it alone produced more oil than most member states of OPEC’s smaller half.

The field was scheduled to shut down repeatedly and never has: drilling continues, and the licence has been extended toward its sixth decade.

Timeline

1974
Discovered on the boundary with the UK sector
1979
Statfjord A on stream
1982
Statfjord B (condeep 4 shafts) enters service
1985
Statfjord C completes the trio of Condeeps
1987
Statfjord A-Ols (loading system) enters service
1990
Statfjord B-Ols (loading system) enters service
1992
Best year to date — 713,239 boe/d

Production by year, 1979–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Condensate	Total boe/d
1979	4,470	0	0	0	4,470
1980	58,933	0	0	0	58,933
1981	136,625	0	0	0	136,625
1982	196,397	0	0	0	196,397
1983	328,185	0	0	0	328,185
1984	385,593	0	0	0	385,593
1985	495,648	7,828	5,210	0	508,687
1986	590,756	51,876	28,479	0	671,111
1987	602,447	56,182	32,072	0	690,700
1988	594,387	55,038	30,841	0	680,266
1989	585,791	51,942	28,133	0	665,865
1990	574,091	51,222	27,679	0	652,992
1991	600,699	48,903	25,960	0	675,562
1992	635,692	51,234	26,313	0	713,239
1993	573,926	51,016	23,392	0	648,334
1994	546,815	54,180	23,967	0	624,961
1995	445,952	50,694	22,659	0	519,305
1996	371,372	55,615	25,954	0	452,941
1997	330,088	53,323	24,868	0	408,278
1998	285,990	43,286	20,794	0	350,070
1999	215,743	39,286	18,042	0	273,071
2000	187,084	26,669	12,402	0	226,155
2001	174,504	24,705	11,137	0	210,346
2002	152,887	26,089	10,781	0	189,756
2003	133,633	20,575	10,715	0	164,922
2004	119,789	36,792	11,913	1,158	169,651
2005	95,875	33,779	13,171	768	143,593
2006	73,400	33,566	16,899	276	124,141
2007	68,598	34,678	17,506	782	121,563
2008	54,605	51,946	22,418	1,999	130,967
2009	36,377	42,656	17,698	1,654	98,384
2010	34,448	39,523	15,236	1,374	90,582
2011	32,434	23,253	7,290	706	63,682
2012	26,485	22,858	9,504	676	59,523
2013	27,464	25,345	16,272	1,140	70,221
2014	24,286	30,560	23,627	2,373	80,846
2015	23,517	41,376	29,960	3,155	98,007
2016	24,732	46,162	32,671	0	103,567
2017	20,300	31,573	24,354	0	76,226
2018	17,380	22,411	16,645	0	56,436
2019	14,146	18,810	11,551	0	44,506
2020	14,292	16,026	12,409	0	42,728
2021	14,228	14,166	9,619	0	38,012
2022	9,883	11,827	5,189	0	26,899
2023	12,468	11,242	4,369	0	28,079
2024	12,118	8,536	5,700	0	26,354
2025	10,237	7,235	3,827	0	21,298
2026	7,506	6,023	2,693	0	16,221

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 33/12-1 in 1974. The directorate's wellbore register lists 445 wellbores on Statfjord: 11 exploration and 433 development, plus 1 others. The deepest reaches 8,761 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 44.2 to 157 metres.

How it reaches market

Statfjord's production leaves the field by pipeline:

Statpipiegas → Stat-Sstc
Tampen Linkgas → Flags-T

Installations on Statfjord

Statfjord ACondeep 3 Shafts1979
Statfjord A-OlsLoading System1987
Statfjord BCondeep 4 Shafts1982
Statfjord B-OlsLoading System1990
Statfjord CCondeep 4 Shafts1985

The first of them entered service in 1979. The field also has 1 subsea structures — wellheads and templates on the seabed — which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS40.17%
OKEA ASA23.93%
Vår Energi ASA21.37%
Equinor UK Limited14.53%

The field sits in blocks 33/12, 33/9, under production licences PL 037.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Statfjord field?: Statfjord is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with OKEA ASA, Vår Energi ASA, Equinor UK Limited.
How much does Statfjord produce?: 15,587 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.4% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 50 of 94 producing fields.
When did Statfjord start producing?: First production was reported in 1979, 5 years after discovery well 33/12-1 proved the field in 1974.

See it live

Statfjord 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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