Who operates the Visund Sør field?

Visund Sør is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS, Repsol Norge AS.

How much does Visund Sør produce?

9,860 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.2% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 56 of 94 producing fields.

When did Visund Sør start producing?

First production was reported in 2012, 4 years after discovery well 34/8-14 S proved the field in 2008.

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.

Visund Sør field

Visund Sør is producing 9,860 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.2% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 56 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

9,860 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.2%

Operator

Equinor Energy AS

First oil

2012

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 9,860 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil/gas — roughly 16% oil and 72% gas by energy content. Output has moved up 139.5% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is growing. The field's best year was 2015, averaging 27,924 boe/d — today it runs at 35% of that.

Since 2012, Visund Sør has produced roughly 63 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 71 million boe, of which about 89% has now been recovered; 9 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

2008
Proven by exploration well 34/8-14 S
2012
First production reported
2015
Best year to date — 27,924 boe/d

Production by year, 2012–2026

OilGasNGL/condensateboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	NGL	Total boe/d
2012	849	302	87	1,238
2013	7,267	8,600	2,149	18,015
2014	9,628	11,803	3,091	24,522
2015	11,002	13,348	3,574	27,924
2016	5,777	12,538	3,196	21,510
2017	4,889	13,368	3,777	22,033
2018	3,526	15,084	3,891	22,500
2019	1,614	9,508	2,562	13,685
2020	1,116	7,652	2,021	10,789
2021	16	87	16	119
2022	7	40	7	54
2023	1,130	1,839	394	3,364
2024	1,199	2,781	600	4,580
2025	0	0	0	0
2026	953	4,255	669	5,877

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 34/8-14 S in 2008. The directorate's wellbore register lists 14 wellbores on Visund Sør: 4 exploration and 9 development, plus 1 others. The deepest reaches 5,160 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 292 metres.

Installations on Visund Sør

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

Licence partners

Equinor Energy AS53.20%
Petoro AS30.00%
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS9.10%
Repsol Norge AS7.70%

The field sits in block 34/8, under production licence PL 120.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Visund Sør field?: Visund Sør is operated by Equinor Energy AS, in partnership with Petoro AS, ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS, Repsol Norge AS.
How much does Visund Sør produce?: 9,860 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.2% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 56 of 94 producing fields.
When did Visund Sør start producing?: First production was reported in 2012, 4 years after discovery well 34/8-14 S proved the field in 2008.

See it live

Visund Sør 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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