Table 7 Accrued investment costs for oil and gas exploration, by cost category. Q1 2003

7	Accrued investment costs for oil and gas exploration, by cost category. Q1 2003 - Q2 2005. NOK Million

	2003				2004				2005

	Q 1	Q 2	Q3	Q 4	Q 1	Q 2	Q3	Q 4	Q 1	Q 2

Exploration costs, total	869	1 303	1 282	681	918	1 062	754	1 276	1 452	1 924

Exploration drilling	290	1 027	940	194	346	594	192	732	852	1 272
Drilling rigs	83	322	416	103	86	190	11	210	259	309
Hire of drilling rigs	118	288	390	114	87	176	8	171	251	305
Other drilling costs	-35	34	27	-12	0	14	3	39	8	4
Transportation costs	39	79	104	37	32	41	6	40	66	152
Helicopters and airplanes	8	26	24	6	7	9	1	11	18	34
Vessels	31	53	81	31	25	32	4	28	48	118
Commodities	32	104	100	12	35	61	38	66	99	126
Liner, wellheads, drill bits etc.	14	52	41	-1	17	36	18	29	30	28
Cement	6	15	6	5	4	6	6	6	2	10
Drilling mud	5	18	18	4	7	5	12	8	24	24
Fuel	5	15	30	1	6	12	0	19	21	31
Use of machinery and equipment	1	2	5	1	1	2	2	3	21	34
Smaller equipment	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Technical services	136	522	319	42	193	302	137	416	428	686
Clearing	38	-2	27	16	11	20	14	4	10	14
Cement services	4	11	12	5	2	6	-1	5	6	9
Drilling mud services	9	47	37	6	5	14	-6	19	23	25
Logging	8	61	29	42	21	20	14	10	27	42
Testing	0	0	6	12	1	0	0	2	6	10
Diving	7	8	11	4	6	5	2	6	7	12
Costs of onshore bases	10	9	12	6	4	22	10	26	15	20
Other technical services	59	388	184	-49	142	213	104	343	334	554

General Exploration	114	108	142	246	92	187	309	278	125	389
Geology/geophysics	78	57	55	65	60	96	78	107	90	105
Seismic	6	31	76	161	17	64	216	116	14	270
Special studies	29	20	11	20	14	27	16	55	21	15

Field evaluation/field development	60	77	103	176	124	188	173	127	74	133

Administration and other costs	405	90	97	65	356	94	80	139	402	130
Licence administration	24	34	23	18	34	23	29	54	43	36
Other administration	179	52	64	39	159	59	49	74	176	78
Area fee	201	5	10	8	164	11	3	11	183	16

Source: Investment statistics, oil and gas. Statistics Norway.
More information: http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/10/06/20 .