February 2011

11/03/2011 Preliminary production figures for February 2011 indicate an average daily production of about 2 120 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate. This is 56 000 barrels less than in January 2011.

Gas production was about 9.4 billion Sm3, which is 1.0 billion Sm3 less than in January.

Oil production 2011


The average daily liquid production in February was: 1 792 000 barrels of oil, 251 000 barrels of NGL and 69 000 barrels of condensate.

The Trym field started production in February.

 

Liquid production 2011

 

Total production so far in 2011 is about 40.0 million Sm3 o.e. (MSm3 o.e.), broken down as follows: about 17.0 MSm3 o.e. of oil, about 3.1 MSm3 o.e. of NGL and condensate and about 19.8 MSm3 o.e. of gas. This is 2.1 MSm3 o.e. less than in 2010.  

 

Gas production 2011

 

Final production figures from January 2011 show an average daily production of about 1.835 million barrels of oil, 0.328 million barrels of NGL and condensate and a total of 10.4 billion Sm3 net gas production.

Preliminary figures for March will be published in April 2011.


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

Updated: 11/03/2011

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