Who operates the Tor field?

Tor is operated by ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS, in partnership with TotalEnergies EP Norge AS, Vår Energi ASA, DNO Norge AS and others.

How much does Tor produce?

6,084 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 65 of 94 producing fields.

When did Tor start producing?

First production was reported in 1978, 8 years after discovery well 2/5-1 proved the field in 1970.

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.

Tor field

Tor is producing 6,084 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.1% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 65 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

6,084 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.1%

Operator

ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS

First oil

1978

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 6,084 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — roughly 85% oil and 12% gas by energy content. Output has moved down 8.5% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 1979, averaging 100,348 boe/d — today it runs at 6% of that.

Since 1978, Tor has produced roughly 259 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 273 million boe, of which about 95% has now been recovered; 15 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1970
Proven by exploration well 2/5-1
1978
First production reported
1979
Best year to date — 100,348 boe/d

Production by year, 1978–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
1978	20,806	5,873	0	26,679
1979	78,001	19,936	2,412	100,348
1980	61,690	22,129	4,770	88,587
1981	32,463	20,285	3,950	56,698
1982	26,379	23,123	4,691	54,193
1983	16,680	18,734	4,389	39,803
1984	14,904	16,079	3,737	34,720
1985	14,204	13,431	3,472	31,107
1986	10,763	7,989	2,012	20,764
1987	8,227	5,912	1,525	15,664
1988	8,299	5,467	1,642	15,408
1989	8,789	5,383	1,538	15,709
1990	8,145	4,164	1,179	13,489
1991	5,967	2,778	651	9,396
1992	6,227	2,477	540	9,244
1993	5,960	1,634	387	7,981
1994	5,835	1,276	330	7,441
1995	5,835	1,161	308	7,304
1996	6,174	1,081	295	7,550
1997	5,977	984	298	7,259
1998	3,976	627	189	4,792
1999	3,817	640	186	4,643
2000	4,392	697	184	5,273
2001	4,426	598	170	5,194
2002	3,680	430	141	4,251
2003	2,807	296	115	3,217
2004	3,388	368	144	3,900
2005	3,108	340	137	3,585
2006	2,831	410	147	3,389
2007	5,425	927	274	6,626
2008	5,279	566	215	6,061
2009	5,031	416	175	5,622
2010	4,085	241	122	4,448
2011	3,779	142	84	4,005
2012	3,839	128	89	4,056
2013	3,426	144	78	3,648
2014	3,395	150	77	3,622
2015	3,119	113	62	3,293
2020	300	25	15	340
2021	13,868	1,265	627	15,759
2022	12,399	1,529	611	14,540
2023	10,055	2,032	606	12,693
2024	6,915	1,240	330	8,486
2025	5,798	920	178	6,896
2026	5,326	798	171	6,296

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 2/5-1 in 1970. The directorate's wellbore register lists 38 wellbores on Tor: 4 exploration and 34 development. The deepest reaches 5,862 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 67 to 70 metres.

Installations on Tor

The field also has 2 subsea structures — wellheads and templates on the seabed — which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

TotalEnergies EP Norge AS48.20%
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS30.66%
Vår Energi ASA10.82%
DNO Norge AS6.64%
Petoro AS3.69%

The field sits in blocks 2/4, 2/5, under production licences PL 018, PL 006.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Tor field?: Tor is operated by ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS, in partnership with TotalEnergies EP Norge AS, Vår Energi ASA, DNO Norge AS and others.
How much does Tor produce?: 6,084 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 65 of 94 producing fields.
When did Tor start producing?: First production was reported in 1978, 8 years after discovery well 2/5-1 proved the field in 1970.

See it live

Tor 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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