Who operates the Sygna field?

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

How much does Sygna produce?

1,482 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 87 of 94 producing fields.

When did Sygna start producing?

First production was reported in 2000, 4 years after discovery well 33/9-19 S proved the field in 1996.

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.

Sygna field

Sygna is producing 1,482 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.0% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 87 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

1,482 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.0%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

2000

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 1,482 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — almost entirely oil. Output has moved down 1.1% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is mature. The field's best year was 2001, averaging 43,941 boe/d — today it runs at 3% of that.

Since 2000, Sygna has produced roughly 72 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 73 million boe, of which about 99% has now been recovered; 2 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1996
Proven by exploration well 33/9-19 S
2000
First production reported
2001
Best year to date — 43,941 boe/d

Production by year, 2000–2026

Oilboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Total boe/d
2000	11,041	11,041
2001	43,941	43,941
2002	31,246	31,246
2003	28,228	28,228
2004	19,644	19,644
2005	11,914	11,914
2006	7,117	7,117
2007	6,505	6,505
2008	5,119	5,119
2009	2,234	2,234
2010	938	938
2011	1,084	1,084
2012	879	879
2013	1,011	1,011
2014	601	601
2015	2,551	2,551
2016	2,869	2,869
2017	3,300	3,300
2018	2,686	2,686
2019	3,098	3,098
2020	2,738	2,738
2021	1,999	1,999
2022	1,542	1,542
2023	673	673
2024	1,407	1,407
2025	1,224	1,224
2026	1,394	1,394

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 33/9-19 S in 1996. The directorate's wellbore register lists 8 wellbores on Sygna: 2 exploration and 6 development. The deepest reaches 7,385 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 299 metres.

Installations on Sygna

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

Licence partners

Petoro AS30.00%
Equinor Energy AS28.03%
Vår Energi ASA21.00%
OKEA ASA15.40%
Japex Norge AS4.32%
Harbour Energy Norge AS1.26%

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

Questions people ask

Who operates the Sygna field?: Sygna is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, Vår Energi ASA, OKEA ASA and others.
How much does Sygna produce?: 1,482 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 87 of 94 producing fields.
When did Sygna start producing?: First production was reported in 2000, 4 years after discovery well 33/9-19 S proved the field in 1996.

See it live

Sygna 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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