Fact box 2.4 Resource growth

More than 1 140 wildcats have been drilled on the NCS (figure 2.26) – about 760 in the North Sea, 260 in the Norwegian Sea and 120 in the Barents Sea.

Roughly nine billion scm oe has been discovered in the North Sea, 2.3 billion in the Norwegian Sea and 700 million in the Barents Sea (figure 2.27).

 

Figure 2.26 Cumulative resource growth on the NCS

 

Figure 2.27 Cumulative resource growth in the various NCS regions