Who operates the Tordis field?

Tordis is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, Vår Energi ASA, INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS and others.

How much does Tordis produce?

9,298 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.2% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 58 of 94 producing fields.

When did Tordis start producing?

First production was reported in 1994, 7 years after discovery well 34/7-12 proved the field in 1987.

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.

Tordis field

Tordis is producing 9,298 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.2% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 58 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

9,298 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.2%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

1994

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 9,298 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — almost entirely oil. Output has moved down 21.4% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 2001, averaging 93,287 boe/d — today it runs at 10% of that.

Since 1994, Tordis has produced roughly 480 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 515 million boe, of which about 93% has now been recovered; 39 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1987
Proven by exploration well 34/7-12
1994
First production reported
2001
Best year to date — 93,287 boe/d

Production by year, 1994–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Condensate	Total boe/d
1994	26,805	1,602	705	0	29,112
1995	71,442	4,791	2,939	0	79,173
1996	77,401	6,254	3,427	0	87,081
1997	71,040	6,722	3,393	0	81,155
1998	68,409	5,522	3,373	0	77,303
1999	76,178	5,826	3,724	0	85,728
2000	68,646	5,230	3,415	0	77,290
2001	81,923	5,799	5,565	0	93,287
2002	79,539	5,461	5,498	0	90,498
2003	70,922	5,669	4,498	0	81,089
2004	63,348	4,831	3,700	0	71,878
2005	52,153	4,254	3,269	0	59,676
2006	28,738	1,851	1,531	0	32,120
2007	41,872	1,585	1,305	0	44,762
2008	27,649	38	29	0	27,715
2009	18,868	94	81	0	19,043
2010	12,680	0	77	6	12,763
2011	10,173	7,039	5,860	39	23,111
2012	3,828	307	258	2	4,396
2013	8,761	634	540	6	9,940
2014	12,854	310	278	3	13,445
2015	19,769	0	0	0	19,769
2016	24,869	0	0	0	24,869
2017	21,633	0	0	0	21,633
2018	16,409	0	0	0	16,409
2019	12,073	6,519	5,356	0	23,947
2020	10,633	701	516	0	11,849
2021	18,629	1,140	827	0	20,596
2022	22,967	1,467	778	0	25,212
2023	17,059	1,066	546	0	18,671
2024	11,869	919	430	0	13,218
2025	12,997	1,046	513	0	14,555
2026	8,064	644	309	0	9,017

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 34/7-12 in 1987. The directorate's wellbore register lists 50 wellbores on Tordis: 12 exploration and 36 development, plus 2 others. The deepest reaches 5,664 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 200 to 229 metres.

Installations on Tordis

The field also has 12 subsea structures — wellheads and templates on the seabed — which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS41.50%
Petoro AS30.00%
Vår Energi ASA16.10%
INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS9.60%
Harbour Energy Norge AS2.80%

The field sits in block 34/7, under production licence PL 089.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Tordis field?: Tordis is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, Vår Energi ASA, INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS and others.
How much does Tordis produce?: 9,298 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.2% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 58 of 94 producing fields.
When did Tordis start producing?: First production was reported in 1994, 7 years after discovery well 34/7-12 proved the field in 1987.

See it live

Tordis 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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