Who operates the Utgard field?

Utgard is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Equinor UK Limited, ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.

How much does Utgard produce?

3,425 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 72 of 94 producing fields.

When did Utgard start producing?

First production was reported in 2019, 37 years after discovery well 15/8-1 proved the field in 1982.

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.

Utgard field

Utgard is producing 3,425 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.1% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 72 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

3,425 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.1%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

2019

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 3,425 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as gas — roughly 46% oil and 45% gas by energy content. Output has moved up 58.0% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is growing. The field's best year was 2020, averaging 13,183 boe/d — today it runs at 26% of that.

Since 2019, Utgard has produced roughly 15 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 17 million boe, of which about 89% has now been recovered; 2 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1982
Proven by exploration well 15/8-1
2019
First production reported
2020
Best year to date — 13,183 boe/d

Production by year, 2019–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
2019	3,606	2,679	1,204	7,490
2020	5,626	5,435	2,122	13,183
2021	2,794	3,604	956	7,353
2022	1,405	2,155	270	3,830
2023	963	1,903	191	3,056
2024	1,555	1,520	302	3,378
2025	1,102	1,249	221	2,571
2026	1,388	1,770	342	3,499

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 15/8-1 in 1982. The directorate's wellbore register lists 5 wellbores on Utgard: 1 exploration and 4 development. The deepest reaches 5,014 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 115 metres.

Installations on Utgard

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

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS38.44%
Equinor UK Limited38.00%
ORLEN Upstream Norway AS23.56%

The field sits in blocks 15/8, under production licences PL 046 E, PL 046 F.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Utgard field?: Utgard is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Equinor UK Limited, ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.
How much does Utgard produce?: 3,425 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.1% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 72 of 94 producing fields.
When did Utgard start producing?: First production was reported in 2019, 37 years after discovery well 15/8-1 proved the field in 1982.

See it live

Utgard 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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