System maintenance
23/01/2025 Factmaps and Factpages may be unstable Wednesday 29th of January. Maintenance will be done from 09:00 AM.
Below is a summary of changes. For full overview see changelogs for factpages and factmaps.
Factpages
- Updated pageviews for:
- Discovery
- Field
- Licence
- Updated tableview for licence
- Minor bugfixes
Factmaps and services
- Factmaps in beta replaces current factmaps, new url is https://factmaps.sodir.no/map
- Old factmaps will still be available on https://factmaps.sodir.no/factmaps/3_0/ until May 2025.
- New URL for all services under: https://factmaps.sodir.no/api/rest
- UTM50 – https://factmaps.sodir.no/api/rest/services/Factmaps/FactMapsED50UTM 32/MapServer
- WGS84 – https://factmaps.sodir.no/api/rest/services/Factmaps/FactMapsWGS84/MapServer
- Old and new URLs for services will exist in parallel to May 2025. Same data content and no schema changes in new services compared to old services. Old services will be removed May 2025.
- Factmaps "staging"-services will be avaliable until May 2025. New services are found under https://factmaps.sodir.no/api/rest
- New datalayers in services and downloadable FGDB
Feedback can be reported to factweb@sodir.no
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Updated: 24/01/2025
Latest news
An APA overview
09/04/2025
Through APA the industry has gained regular access to new acreage on the Norwegian continental shelf. Today, this includes nearly all the acreage that has been opened for petroleum activity.
Technology Day programme announced
08/04/2025
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate’s Technology Day will be held on 5 June. There are still some slots available!
Another sulphide deposit, “Gygra”, discovered on the NCS
02/04/2025
The Centre for Deep Sea Research at the University of Bergen (UiB) and the Norwegian Offshore Directorate have discovered a new sulphide location on the Knipovich Ridge, west of Svalbard.
New organisation at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
01/04/2025
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate is implementing a new organisation.
Oil and gas discovery in the North Sea (35/10-15 S and A)
28/03/2025
DNO and its partners have made an oil and gas discovery in the "Kjøttkake" prospect.
Dry well in the Norwegian Sea (6507/2-8)
27/03/2025
Aker BP ASA and its partners have completed drilling on the “Kongeørn” prospect in the Norwegian Sea, 240 kilometres west of Sandnessjøen.
Drilling permit for wellbore 25/11-30 S
27/03/2025
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate has granted Equinor Energy AS drilling permit for wellbore 25/11-30 S in production licence 169, cf. Section 13 of the Resource Management Regulations.
Dry well in the North Sea (35/6-6)
26/03/2025
OMV and its partners have drilled a dry well on the “Horatio” prospect in the North Sea.
Production figures Febuary 2025
20/03/2025
Preliminary production figures for February 2025 show an average daily production of 1 938 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate.
Drilling permit for wellbore 9/6-1
18/03/2025
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate has granted Harbour Energy Norge AS drilling permit for wellbore 9/6-1 in production licence EXL006, cf. Section 13 of the Resource Management Regulations.