Statistics Norway

Oil and gas, production and reserves

59   Areas with production licences as of 31 December 2003
Year of assignment Total area
Km2
Relinguished area
Km2
Area under licence
Km2
Number of
production licenses
Total  201 627  122 680 65 365  323
1965 42 106 40 954 1 152 22
1969 5 879 4 865 1 014 13
1971  524  327  197 1
1973  587  314  273 1
1975 2 329 2 154  175 5
1976 2 068 1 461  608 4
1977 1 794 1 609  185 4
1978  501  152  349 1
1979 4 008 2 886 1 122 8
1980 1 108 1 108 0 3
1981 4 318 3 923  395 11
1982 4 497 4 026  471 12
1983 1 521  726  795 1
1984 6 338 4 629 1 710 15
1985 8 629 7 297 1 332 20
1986 4 054 3 168  886 9
1987 7 140 7 005  135 13
1988 4 701 3 341 1 360 11
1989 5 031 4 768  263 9
1990 - - - -
1991 12 102 11 288  814 23
1992 27 0 27 1
1993 10 510 5 998 4 512 17
1994  596  596 0 3
1995  212 59  153 3
1996 17 406 5 988 11 418 18
19971 5 182 1 665 3 517 16
1998  447  314  133 8
1999 5 420 1 433 3 987 18
2000 15 165  509 14 656 23
2001 3 479  117 3 363 11
2002 10 365 0 10 365 19
2003 13 582 4 757 8 825 36
1  Licences distributed in 1997 in the Barents Sea, were distributed in order to do seismic exploration without area spesification. When production licences where given, the area was spesified. This is the reason why the area under licence is larger than the total area.
Source: Source: The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.
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