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 199 141 34 62
Concedo AS 14 0 0 0
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS 41 14 9 10
DNO Norge AS 94 20 2 2
Equinor Energy AS 336 215 61 192
Harbour Energy Norge AS 97 33 4 8
INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS 43 3 0 0
Japex Norge AS 10 0 0 0
Kistos Energy (Norway) AS 6 0 0 0
Lime Petroleum AS 18 0 0 0
M Vest Energy AS 19 0 0 0
Neptune Energy Norge AS 1 1 0 0
OKEA ASA 47 22 3 10
OMV (Norge) AS 41 17 1 1
ORLEN Upstream Norway AS 101 8 0 0
Pandion Energy AS 22 0 0 0
Petoro AS 195 0 0 0
Petrolia NOCO AS 20 4 0 0
Repsol Norge AS 12 5 3 7
Source Energy AS 12 0 0 0
Sval Energi AS 44 3 0 0
TotalEnergies EP Norge AS 53 4 0 0
Vår Energi ASA 192 65 7 20
Wellesley Petroleum AS 13 7 0 0