Table 7 Accrued investment costs for oil and gas exploration, by cost category. Q2 2003

7	Accrued investment costs for oil and gas exploration, by cost category. Q2 2003 - Q3 2005. NOK million

	2003			2004				2005

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

Exploration costs, total	1 303	1 282	681	918	1 062	754	1 276	1 452	1 924	1 856

Exploration drilling	1 027	940	194	346	594	192	732	852	1 272	848
Drilling rigs	322	416	103	86	190	11	210	259	309	383
Hire of drilling rigs	288	390	114	87	176	8	171	251	305	366
Other drilling costs	34	27	-12	0	14	3	39	8	4	17
Transportation costs	79	104	37	32	41	6	40	66	152	102
Helicopters and airplanes	26	24	6	7	9	1	11	18	34	26
Vessels	53	81	31	25	32	4	28	48	118	77
Commodities	104	100	12	35	61	38	66	99	126	134
Liner, wellheads, drill bits etc.	52	41	-1	17	36	18	29	30	28	67
Cement	15	6	5	4	6	6	6	2	10	10
Drilling mud	18	18	4	7	5	12	8	24	24	20
Fuel	15	30	1	6	12	0	19	21	31	23
Use of machinery and equipment	2	5	1	1	2	2	3	21	34	15
Smaller equipment	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Technical services	522	319	42	193	302	137	416	428	686	228
Clearing	-2	27	16	11	20	14	4	10	14	19
Cement services	11	12	5	2	6	-1	5	6	9	11
Drilling mud services	47	37	6	5	14	-6	19	23	25	22
Logging	61	29	42	21	20	14	10	27	42	19
Testing	0	6	12	1	0	0	2	6	10	7
Diving	8	11	4	6	5	2	6	7	12	17
Costs of onshore bases	9	12	6	4	22	10	26	15	20	12
Other technical services	388	184	-49	142	213	104	343	334	554	122

General Exploration	108	142	246	92	187	309	278	125	389	499
Geology/geophysics	57	55	65	60	96	78	107	90	105	90
Seismic	31	76	161	17	64	216	116	14	270	390
Special studies	20	11	20	14	27	16	55	21	15	19

Field evaluation/field development	77	103	176	124	188	173	127	74	133	201

Administration and other costs	90	97	65	356	94	80	139	402	130	308
Licence administration	34	23	18	34	23	29	54	43	36	38
Other administration	52	64	39	159	59	49	74	176	78	260
Area fee	5	10	8	164	11	3	11	183	16	9

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