Who operates the Urd field?

Urd is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, DNO Norge AS.

How much does Urd produce?

1,970 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 82 of 94 producing fields.

When did Urd start producing?

First production was reported in 2005, 5 years after discovery well 6608/10-6 proved the field in 2000.

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.

Urd field

Urd is producing 1,970 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.1% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 82 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

1,970 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.1%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

2005

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 1,970 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — almost entirely oil. Output has moved down 5.1% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 2006, averaging 36,741 boe/d — today it runs at 5% of that.

Since 2005, Urd has produced roughly 54 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 60 million boe, of which about 90% has now been recovered; 6 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

2000
Proven by exploration well 6608/10-6
2005
First production reported
2006
Best year to date — 36,741 boe/d

Production by year, 2005–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
2005	3,294	196	45	3,534
2006	35,236	1,191	314	36,741
2007	14,581	546	144	15,270
2008	8,772	355	96	9,223
2009	6,261	112	31	6,404
2010	7,136	50	14	7,200
2011	5,415	28	8	5,450
2012	5,580	39	11	5,630
2013	4,707	546	122	5,374
2014	6,678	1,114	253	8,045
2015	4,422	291	53	4,767
2016	4,474	338	57	4,870
2017	8,921	139	10	9,071
2018	4,736	0	0	4,736
2019	3,184	0	0	3,184
2020	2,175	0	0	2,175
2021	3,109	0	0	3,109
2022	4,127	0	0	4,127
2023	1,960	0	0	1,960
2024	3,186	0	0	3,186
2025	2,157	1	1	2,159
2026	2,808	15	5	2,828

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 6608/10-6 in 2000. The directorate's wellbore register lists 30 wellbores on Urd: 9 exploration and 21 development. The deepest reaches 3,981 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 390 metres.

Installations on Urd

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

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS63.95%
Petoro AS24.55%
DNO Norge AS11.50%

The field sits in block 6608/10, under production licence PL 128.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Urd field?: Urd is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, DNO Norge AS.
How much does Urd produce?: 1,970 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 82 of 94 producing fields.
When did Urd start producing?: First production was reported in 2005, 5 years after discovery well 6608/10-6 proved the field in 2000.

See it live

Urd 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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