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01The Shelf in Numbers
The measures that tell the sector where it stands: how much Norway produces, how much gas Europe receives, and how active the shelf is. Published as the official sources release them, dated, and linked. The full board is on The Shelf page.
Norwegian liquids production, September 2026
1.90 million bbl/day
Oil 1.73 million, NGL 154,000 and condensate 16,000 barrels per day. Oil ran 0.7 percent above the Directorate's forecast; the month carried seasonal maintenance, against 2.07 million barrels per day in August.
Source: Norwegian Offshore Directorate, September 2026, published 20 October 2026.
Norwegian gas sales, September 2026
9.0 billion Sm³
Down 1.6 billion Sm³ on the month; average gas production of 298.4 million Sm³ per day ran 6.7 percent below forecast.
Source: Norwegian Offshore Directorate, September 2026, published 20 October 2026.
Total petroleum production, 2026 to date
181.7 million Sm³ o.e.
About 181.7 million Sm³ of oil equivalents so far in 2026: roughly 80.7 of oil, 8.7 of NGL and condensate, and 92.2 of gas for sale. The total is 5.1 million Sm³ o.e. ahead of the same period in 2025.
Source: Norwegian Offshore Directorate, Year to date, September 2026.
Fields in production
97 fields
97 fields were producing on the Norwegian continental shelf at year-end 2025, of 129 that have produced since 1971. A further 91 discoveries were being considered for development.
Source: Norwegian Petroleum (Ministry of Energy / Offshore Directorate), Year-end 2025.
Norway's share of EU and UK gas consumption
About 30%
The Norwegian continental shelf also supplies about 14 percent of oil consumption in the EU and the UK, per the Ministry of Energy's revised national budget statement.
Source: Norwegian Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Energy, May 2026.
Petroleum share of Norway's goods exports, 2025
57%
Crude oil, natural gas and condensate exports were worth NOK 1,000 billion in 2025. Norway produced about 239 million Sm³ o.e. in 2025, more than half of it gas.
Source: Norwegian Petroleum (Ministry of Energy / Offshore Directorate), 2025.
02Latest News
20 October 2026
Norwegian liquids production averaged 1.90 million barrels per day in September 2026, made up of 1.73 million barrels of oil, 154,000 barrels of NGL and 16,000 barrels of...
14 October 2026
Equinor and its partners have made an oil and gas discovery in the Grimsnes prospect in the Oseberg area of the North Sea, about 140 kilometres west of Bergen, the Norweg...
19 October 2026
Vår Energi and Equinor have made a gas and condensate discovery in the Lakris prospect in the Gimsan Basin of the Norwegian Sea, about 170 kilometres northwest of Kristia...
03Coverage
Norway is one of the world's great petroleum provinces and Europe's most important gas supplier. Its industry turns on wells, fields, pipelines, and policy, and OilGas follows all of it.
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Figures come from the bodies that publish them: the Norwegian Offshore Directorate, the Ministry of Energy, Statistics Norway, Gassco, and the operating companies themselves. What cannot be confirmed from the record is labeled as a briefing item with its source credited and linked, or it does not run. Errors are corrected openly, on the corrections page.
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