February 2008

08/04/2008 Press release 18/2008: The average daily production was about 2 095 000 barrels of oil, about 294 000 barrels of NGL (Natural Gas Liquids) and about 81 000 barrels of condensate, in total of 2 469 000 barrels liquid. 

During the month of February 20.6 million standard cubic metres of oil equivalents (Sm3 o.e.) were produced. This is 1.0 million Sm3 o.e. higher than during February 2007.

	Oil	Gas	Condensate	NGL	Sum
Period	mill.Sm3	bill.Sm3	mill.Sm3	mill.Sm3	mill.Sm3o.e.
February 2008	9.7	9.2	0.4	1.4	20.6
February 2007	10.7	7.3	0.3	1.4	19.6
Difference	-1.0	1.9	0.1	0.0	1.0

 

Production from the Snøhvit field was shut down for 10 days due to technical problems.

So far this year the average daily production has been just above 2.1 million barrels of oil. The total production is about 42.3 million Sm3 o.e. This is 1.0 million Sm3 o.e. higher 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-Feb 2008	20.3	18.4	0.7	2.8	42.3
Jan-Feb 2007	22.4	15.4	0.5	2.9	41.3
Difference	-2.1	3.0	0.2	-0.1	1.0

 

Preliminary production figures for March 2008 show an average daily production of about 2.202 million barrels of oil and 0.375 million barrels of NGL and condensate.

Final figures will be available in the beginning of May 2008. Please note that updated production figures for the Norwegian continental shelf can be found at NPD’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 2006-2008
million bbls per day

 

 

Contact in the NPD:
Rune Hult, tel. +47 51 87 60 77

Updated: 14/12/2009