Who operates the Valemon field?

Valemon is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.

How much does Valemon produce?

12,706 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.3% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 52 of 94 producing fields.

When did Valemon start producing?

First production was reported in 2014, 29 years after discovery well 34/10-23 proved the field in 1985.

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.

Valemon field

Valemon is producing 12,706 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.3% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 52 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

12,706 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.3%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

2014

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 12,706 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as gas/condensate — almost entirely gas. Output has moved up 27.6% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is growing. The field's best year was 2016, averaging 56,858 boe/d — today it runs at 22% of that.

Since 2014, Valemon has produced roughly 106 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 114 million boe, of which about 93% has now been recovered; 8 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1985
Proven by exploration well 34/10-23
2014
First production reported
2015
Valemon (jacket 4 legs) enters service
2016
Best year to date — 56,858 boe/d

Production by year, 2014–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
2014	0	0	0	0
2015	4,583	26,133	490	31,206
2016	7,743	48,902	213	56,858
2017	5,506	44,792	185	50,482
2018	5,181	40,786	96	46,063
2019	3,185	26,004	62	29,251
2020	2,021	17,584	85	19,689
2021	1,422	11,092	42	12,558
2022	1,619	8,703	18	10,340
2023	1,014	7,025	182	8,220
2024	985	8,332	433	9,750
2025	954	9,525	299	10,777
2026	1,211	11,721	396	13,326

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 34/10-23 in 1985. The directorate's wellbore register lists 29 wellbores on Valemon: 6 exploration and 23 development. The deepest reaches 7,380 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 133 metres.

How it reaches market

Valemon's production leaves the field by pipeline:

Valemon Kondensatrørcondensate → Kvitebjørn

Installations on Valemon

ValemonJacket 4 Legs2015

The first of them entered service in 2015.

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS66.78%
Petoro AS30.00%
ORLEN Upstream Norway AS3.23%

The field sits in blocks 30/1, 34/10, 34/11, under production licences PL 050 GS, PL 050 ES, PL 050 HS, PL 193 B, PL 193 D.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Valemon field?: Valemon is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.
How much does Valemon produce?: 12,706 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.3% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 52 of 94 producing fields.
When did Valemon start producing?: First production was reported in 2014, 29 years after discovery well 34/10-23 proved the field in 1985.

See it live

Valemon 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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