Who operates the Svalin field?

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

How much does Svalin produce?

4,817 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 68 of 94 producing fields.

When did Svalin start producing?

First production was reported in 2014, 22 years after discovery well 25/11-16 proved the field in 1992.

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.

Svalin field

Svalin is producing 4,817 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.1% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 68 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

4,817 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.1%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

2014

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 4,817 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — almost entirely oil. Output has moved down 21.2% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 2015, averaging 33,788 boe/d — today it runs at 14% of that.

Since 2014, Svalin has produced roughly 59 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 70 million boe, of which about 84% has now been recovered; 16 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1992
Proven by exploration well 25/11-16
2014
First production reported
2015
Best year to date — 33,788 boe/d

Production by year, 2014–2026

Oilboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Total boe/d
2014	17,494	17,494
2015	33,788	33,788
2016	23,740	23,740
2017	16,998	16,998
2018	12,604	12,604
2019	8,071	8,071
2020	8,249	8,249
2021	7,814	7,814
2022	8,070	8,070
2023	8,495	8,495
2024	5,904	5,904
2025	7,850	7,850
2026	4,215	4,215

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 25/11-16 in 1992. The directorate's wellbore register lists 16 wellbores on Svalin: 2 exploration and 14 development. The deepest reaches 6,823 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 125 metres.

Installations on Svalin

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

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS57.00%
Petoro AS30.00%
Vår Energi ASA13.00%

The field sits in block 25/11, under production licence PL 169.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Svalin field?: Svalin is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, Vår Energi ASA.
How much does Svalin produce?: 4,817 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 68 of 94 producing fields.
When did Svalin start producing?: First production was reported in 2014, 22 years after discovery well 25/11-16 proved the field in 1992.

See it live

Svalin 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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