Who operates the Tyrving field?

Tyrving is operated by Aker BP ASA, in partnership with Petoro AS, ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.

How much does Tyrving produce?

17,137 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.4% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 49 of 94 producing fields.

When did Tyrving start producing?

First production was reported in 2024, 51 years after discovery well 25/4-2 proved the field in 1973.

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.

Tyrving field

Tyrving is producing 17,137 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.4% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 49 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

17,137 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.4%

Operator

Aker BP ASA

First oil

2024

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 17,137 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — almost entirely oil. Output has moved down 8.8% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is ramp-up. The field's best year was 2025, averaging 24,249 boe/d — today it runs at 71% of that.

Since 2024, Tyrving has produced roughly 14 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 36 million boe, of which about 39% has now been recovered; 25 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1973
Proven by exploration well 25/4-2
2024
First production reported

Production by year, 2024–2026

OilGasboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	Total boe/d
2024	7,371	197	7,568
2025	23,522	727	24,249
2026	15,685	536	16,220

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 25/4-2 in 1973. The directorate's wellbore register lists 12 wellbores on Tyrving: 2 exploration and 10 development. The deepest reaches 5,984 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 118 to 120 metres.

Installations on Tyrving

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

Licence partners

Aker BP ASA61.19%
Petoro AS26.86%
ORLEN Upstream Norway AS11.95%

The field sits in blocks 25/4, 25/5, under production licences PL 036 E, PL 036 F, PL 102 F, PL 102 G.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Tyrving field?: Tyrving is operated by Aker BP ASA, in partnership with Petoro AS, ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.
How much does Tyrving produce?: 17,137 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.4% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 49 of 94 producing fields.
When did Tyrving start producing?: First production was reported in 2024, 51 years after discovery well 25/4-2 proved the field in 1973.

See it live

Tyrving 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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