March 2007

09/05/2007 Press release 16/2007: The average daily production was about 2 335 000 barrels of oil, about 276 000 barrels of NGL and about 56 000 barrels of condensate, total of 2 667 000 barrels liquid. 

During the month of March 20.8 million standard cubic metres of oil equivalents (Sm3 o.e.) were produced. This is 1.5 million Sm3 o.e. lower than during March 2006.

	Oil	Gas	Condensate	NGL	SUM
Period	mill.Sm3	bill.Sm3	mill.Sm3	mill.Sm3	mill.Sm3o.e.
March 2007	11.5	7.6	0.3	1.4	20.8
March 2006	12.0	8.0	0.8	1.5	22.3
Differance	-0.5	-0.4	-0.5	-0.1	-1.5

So far this year the total production is about 62.1 million Sm3 o.e. This is 3.5 million Sm3 o.e. less than in the same period last year.

	Oil	Gas	Condensate	NGL	SUM
Period	mill.Sm3	bill.Sm3	mill.Sm3	mill.Sm3	mill.Sm3o.e.
Jan-Mar 2007	33.9	23.1	0.8	4.3	62.1
Jan-Mar 2006	35.1	23.7	2.5	4.3	65.6
Difference	-1.2	-0.6	-1.7	0.0	-3.5

Preliminary production figures show an average daily production of about 2.409 million barrels of oil and 0.359 million barrels of NGL and condensate for April 2007. Final figures will be available in the beginning of June 2007.

Please note that updated production figures for the Norwegian continental shelf can be found at NPDS’s fact-pages. The overview shows complete history per field and total production per month and year.

Production of oil, NGL and condensate on the NCS 2005 - 2007
(million bbls per day)

 

Contact information:
Rune Hult, telephone: +47 51 87 60 77

Updated: 15/12/2009