Who operates the Volund field?

Volund is operated by Aker BP ASA.

How much does Volund produce?

1,770 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 85 of 94 producing fields.

When did Volund start producing?

First production was reported in 2008, 14 years after discovery well 24/9-5 proved the field in 1994.

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.

Volund field

Volund is producing 1,770 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.0% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 85 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

1,770 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.0%

Operator

Aker BP ASA

First oil

2008

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 1,770 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — roughly 83% oil and 18% gas by energy content. Output has moved down 13.3% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 2012, averaging 37,303 boe/d — today it runs at 5% of that.

Since 2008, Volund has produced roughly 86 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 91 million boe, of which about 94% has now been recovered; 6 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1994
Proven by exploration well 24/9-5
2008
First production reported
2012
Best year to date — 37,303 boe/d

Production by year, 2008–2026

OilGasboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Gas	Total boe/d
2008	0	0	0
2009	151	14	165
2010	13,808	1,346	15,154
2011	31,552	2,944	34,496
2012	34,200	3,103	37,303
2013	32,129	2,864	34,993
2014	18,832	2,212	21,044
2015	12,476	1,897	14,373
2016	6,895	893	7,788
2017	9,909	1,347	11,257
2018	15,417	2,860	18,276
2019	11,101	2,487	13,588
2020	8,228	1,651	9,879
2021	4,898	1,194	6,092
2022	3,247	1,311	4,559
2023	1,712	735	2,446
2024	1,340	305	1,645
2025	1,110	216	1,326
2026	1,675	355	2,030

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 24/9-5 in 1994. The directorate's wellbore register lists 26 wellbores on Volund: 5 exploration and 21 development. The deepest reaches 5,069 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 123 to 124 metres.

Installations on Volund

The field also has 4 subsea structures — wellheads and templates on the seabed — which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

Aker BP ASA100.00%

The field sits in block 24/9, under production licence PL 150.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Volund field?: Volund is operated by Aker BP ASA.
How much does Volund produce?: 1,770 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.0% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 85 of 94 producing fields.
When did Volund start producing?: First production was reported in 2008, 14 years after discovery well 24/9-5 proved the field in 1994.

See it live

Volund 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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