Companies

A production licence is normally awarded to a group of companies headed by a designated operator. Including several companies in one licence enables less experienced companies to learn from those with more experience, and the different companies can control the operator’s activities and together ensure that the best possible decisions are made.

At the end of 2024, a total of 25 companies were active on the Norwegian shelf, of which 17 were operators. The diversity of companies of all sizes promotes competition and efficiency. It also ensures interest in different types of projects, and implementation of different kinds of new and cost-effective technologies.

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Companies
Company name #licensees #operatorships #operatorships fields #operatorships discoveries
A/S Norske Shell 15 3 1 1
Aker BP ASA 193 138 34 62
Concedo AS 13 0 0 0
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS 39 12 9 10
DNO Norge AS 95 20 2 2
Equinor Energy AS 330 213 61 192
Harbour Energy Norge AS 89 30 4 8
INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS 41 3 0 0
Japex Norge AS 6 0 0 0
Kistos Energy (Norway) AS 6 0 0 0
Lime Petroleum AS 17 0 0 0
M Vest Energy AS 19 0 0 0
OKEA ASA 48 22 3 10
OMV (Norge) AS 37 13 1 1
ORLEN Upstream Norway AS 99 8 0 0
Pandion Energy AS 22 0 0 0
Petoro AS 191 0 0 0
Petrolia NOCO AS 20 4 0 0
Repsol Norge AS 12 5 3 7
Source Energy AS 9 0 0 0
Sval Energi AS 43 3 0 0
TotalEnergies EP Norge AS 53 4 0 0
Vår Energi ASA 191 66 7 20
Wellesley Petroleum AS 13 7 0 0