Who operates the Statfjord Øst field?

Statfjord Øst is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, Vår Energi ASA, OKEA ASA and others.

How much does Statfjord Øst produce?

6,620 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.2% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 62 of 94 producing fields.

When did Statfjord Øst start producing?

First production was reported in 1994, 18 years after discovery well 33/9-7 proved the field in 1976.

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.

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Statfjord Øst field

Statfjord Øst is producing 6,620 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.2% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 62 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

6,620 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.2%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

1994

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 6,620 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — roughly 77% oil and 16% gas by energy content. Output has moved down 38.9% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 1998, averaging 79,475 boe/d — today it runs at 8% of that.

Since 1994, Statfjord Øst has produced roughly 296 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 320 million boe, of which about 93% has now been recovered; 18 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1976
Proven by exploration well 33/9-7
1994
First production reported
1998
Best year to date — 79,475 boe/d

Production by year, 1994–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Condensate	Total boe/d
1994	10,527	547	245	0	11,319
1995	55,652	2,336	1,135	0	59,122
1996	57,668	3,801	1,834	0	63,303
1997	71,515	4,414	2,356	0	78,284
1998	72,993	4,244	2,237	0	79,475
1999	64,952	4,793	2,692	0	72,437
2000	48,502	5,909	3,952	0	58,363
2001	37,862	5,247	4,938	0	48,046
2002	33,043	3,684	3,351	0	40,078
2003	34,335	4,177	3,115	0	41,627
2004	23,178	3,338	2,541	0	29,057
2005	19,461	6,681	4,978	0	31,119
2006	19,572	5,716	4,104	0	29,392
2007	20,380	5,367	3,778	0	29,525
2008	13,441	1,938	1,352	25	16,756
2009	9,506	1,188	597	38	11,329
2010	14,086	1,883	824	68	16,861
2011	6,776	988	495	23	8,281
2012	7,936	802	407	28	9,172
2013	5,751	984	634	42	7,410
2014	3,886	606	449	40	4,979
2015	3,607	692	354	32	4,685
2016	3,755	398	286	0	4,439
2017	3,434	543	422	0	4,399
2018	2,448	451	342	0	3,242
2019	2,187	160	114	0	2,460
2020	3,198	817	738	0	4,754
2021	3,303	1,498	1,060	0	5,861
2022	3,167	1,813	843	0	5,824
2023	2,157	1,556	608	0	4,321
2024	7,149	3,248	2,267	0	12,664
2025	6,374	2,521	1,337	0	10,232
2026	5,147	1,291	654	0	7,093

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 33/9-7 in 1976. The directorate's wellbore register lists 27 wellbores on Statfjord Øst: 3 exploration and 24 development. The deepest reaches 8,330 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 153 to 195 metres.

Installations on Statfjord Øst

The field also has 3 subsea structures — wellheads and templates on the seabed — which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

Petoro AS30.00%
Equinor Energy AS29.25%
Vår Energi ASA20.55%
OKEA ASA14.00%
Japex Norge AS4.80%
Harbour Energy Norge AS1.40%

The field sits in blocks 33/9, 34/7, under production licences PL 037, PL 089 CS.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Statfjord Øst field?: Statfjord Øst is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, Vår Energi ASA, OKEA ASA and others.
How much does Statfjord Øst produce?: 6,620 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.2% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 62 of 94 producing fields.
When did Statfjord Øst start producing?: First production was reported in 1994, 18 years after discovery well 33/9-7 proved the field in 1976.

See it live

Statfjord 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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