Who operates the Yme field?

Yme is operated by Repsol Norge AS, in partnership with Lime Petroleum AS, ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.

How much does Yme produce?

10,219 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.2% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 55 of 94 producing fields.

When did Yme start producing?

First production was reported in 1996, 9 years after discovery well 9/2-1 proved the field in 1987.

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.

Yme field

Yme is producing 10,219 barrels of oil equivalent a day — 0.2% of everything the Norwegian Continental Shelf produced in May 2026, ranking 55 of the 94 fields in production.

Production

10,219 boe/d

Share of NCS

0.2%

Operator

Repsol Norge AS

First oil

1996

What it produces

In May 2026 the field delivered 10,219 barrels of oil equivalent a day, classified by the directorate as oil — almost entirely oil. Output has moved down 37.8% over the past twelve months, and the directorate's profile for the field is late life. The field's best year was 1997, averaging 34,117 boe/d — today it runs at 30% of that.

Since 1996, Yme has produced roughly 74 million barrels of oil equivalent in total. The directorate's estimate of recoverable resources is 90 million boe, of which about 82% has now been recovered; 18 million boe remained as of 31.12.2025.

Timeline

1987
Proven by exploration well 9/2-1
1996
First production reported
1997
Best year to date — 34,117 boe/d
2021
Inspirer (jack-up 3 legs) enters service
2021
Yme Sls (loading system) enters service
2021
Yme Whm (mopustor) enters service

Production by year, 1996–2026

Oilboe/d

Full table, year by year

Year	Oil	Total boe/d
1996	20,533	20,533
1997	34,117	34,117
1998	33,945	33,945
1999	25,573	25,573
2000	18,411	18,411
2001	3,559	3,559
2021	364	364
2022	9,156	9,156
2023	18,656	18,656
2024	20,655	20,655
2025	12,654	12,654
2026	10,270	10,270

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 9/2-1 in 1987. The directorate's wellbore register lists 57 wellbores on Yme: 9 exploration and 40 development, plus 8 others. The deepest reaches 7,584 metres measured depth. Water depth at the field's installations is 77 to 95 metres.

Installations on Yme

InspirerJack-Up 3 Legs2021
Yme SlsLoading System2021
Yme WhmMopustor2021

The first of them entered service in 2021. The field also has 2 subsea structures — wellheads and templates on the seabed — which are drawn individually on the map.

Licence partners

Repsol Norge AS55.00%
Lime Petroleum AS25.00%
ORLEN Upstream Norway AS20.00%

The field sits in blocks 9/2, 9/5, under production licences PL 316.

Questions people ask

Who operates the Yme field?: Yme is operated by Repsol Norge AS, in partnership with Lime Petroleum AS, ORLEN Upstream Norway AS.
How much does Yme produce?: 10,219 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of May 2026 — 0.2% of Norwegian Continental Shelf output, ranking 55 of 94 producing fields.
When did Yme start producing?: First production was reported in 1996, 9 years after discovery well 9/2-1 proved the field in 1987.

See it live

Yme 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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