The United Kingdom produced ******* barrels of oil per day in 2024. Oil production has been on a continuous downward trend since 2019 when it amounted to over *** million barrels per day.

Oil production in Norway saw a noticeable decline between 2001 to 2013, dropping from *** million barrels per day to *** million. Since then, production has maintained stable, and amounted to 1.83 million barrels per day in 2024. In the first quarter of 2019, Norway made **** oil and gas discoveries in its territories. Global context Whilst Norway is not one of the biggest oil producing countries in the world, meeting around *** percent of the global oil demand, it is still an important exporter. In fact, most of the oil that is produced on the Norwegian shelf is exported and represents a significant source of the country’s revenue. In 2019, ** billion U.S. dollars’ worth of crude oil was exported. In 2024, approximately **** million metric tons of crude oil were exported from Norway via pipelines and ships. Depleting North Sea reserves As of 2020, Norway’s oil reserves amounted to *** billion metric tons, a decline of *** billion metric tons when compared to the turn of the century. The North Sea is Norway’s most explored territory, with approximately ** fields. However, potentially ** percent of Norway’s undiscovered resources are located in the Barents Sea.

The size of the North Sea Oil and Gas Industry market was valued at USD XX Million in 2023 and is projected to reach USD XXX Million by 2032, with an expected CAGR of 2.00% during the forecast period. Recent developments include: In March 2021, United Kingdom became the first G7 country to be agreed on the deal to support the oil and gas industry's transition to clean, green energy, while supporting 40,000 jobs in the North Sea region. The deal between the government of the United Kingdom and the oil and gas sector industry is expected to support workers, businesses, and the supply chain through this transition by harnessing the industry's existing capabilities, infrastructure, and private investment potential to exploit new and emerging technologies such as hydrogen production, Carbon Capture Usage and Storage, offshore wind and decommissioning., In January 2021, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate announced that the authorities in Norway offered 30 companies with ownership interests in a total of 61 production licenses on the Norwegian Shelf in the Awards in Predefined Areas (APA ) 2020.,

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Maintenance and Repair. Key drivers for this market are: 4., Growing Demand to Develop the Natural Gas Infrastructure4.; Increase in Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (E&P) Activities. Potential restraints include: 4., High Volatility of Oil and Gas Prices. Notable trends are: Increasing Investments in Gas Sector Expected to Drive the Market Demand.

Crude Oil Production in the United Kingdom increased to 649 BBL/D/1K in July from 563 BBL/D/1K in June of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom Crude Oil Production - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

SAS based field microsimulation model used principally for forecasting North Sea oil and gas revenues. Includes survey data of oil and gas companies' production and expenditure, as well as parameters and determinants. Updated: Every six months

The United Kingdom is forecast to produce some **** million metric tons of crude oil in 2025. By 2050, this figure is expected to fall to **** million metric tons. According to the CCC Balanced Net Zero Pathway reference scenario, that year could see oil products' demand reach **** million metric tons of oil equivalent, which would be around ***** the projected output volume.

The report covers North Sea Oil and Gas Production and the market is segmented by Geography (United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, and Rest of the Other Countries).

The (physical) natural gas and oil reserves consist of (socially responsible and commercially viable) extractable quantities of natural gas and oil found in the Netherlands, plus the amount pending development. After the closure of the ‘Groningen’ gas field in 2024, the Netherlands still has the so-called ‘small natural gas and oil fields’ on land (among which also the wells in the Wadden sea) and fields in the North Sea. The reserves are estimated with the physical data on natural gas and oil reserves that are derived from the annual publication “Natural resources and geothermal energy in the Netherlands” by TNO commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs/Climate and Green Growth. Definitions and data are in accordance with the Petroleum Resource Management System which has been used by TNO since 2013. For reasons of consistency with Dutch environmental accounts and national accounts terminology, we have opted to use reserves rather than resources as used in the TNO report. The opening stock of the reserves is 1 January and the closing stock is 31 December. Stocks and flows in the Statline table are measured in Sm3. In 2018, there was a substantial downward adjustment of the gas reserves in the Groningen gas field, and in 2024, the gas field is permanently closed. The table is part of the environmental accounts. The environmental accounts quantify the relationship between the economy and the environment. To arrive at a consistent statistical description of this relationship, the environmental accounts are in line with the classifications and definitions of the national accounts. As a result, environmental figures from the environmental accounts deviate in a number of cases from the environmental figures elsewhere on the CBS website.

Data available from: 1987

Status of the figures: The figures in this table for the last year are provisional. The figures for the other years are final.

Changes as of August 29th, 2025 The provisional figures for 2024 have been added.

When will new figures be published? New figures are published annually end of August.

North Sea Production data, recent 19 years (traceable to May 01,2007), the unit is 1000 bbl/d, latest value is 49.15, updated at Nov 01,2025

Gridded data (produced 2015-2016) in ascii text format, of oil and gas platforms at the spatial extent of the North Sea. Data are produced at three different spatial resolutions: 0.1, 0.25 and 0.5 decimal degree, respectively. Values represent estimated proportion of grid cell occupied by structures. Data were derived as model inputs to support two Cefas projects (COSM and EcoConnect) under the INSITE (INfluence of man-made Structures In The Ecosystem) programme.

United Kingdom Crude Oil Production: Offshore Field: Alwyn North data was reported at 16.783 Ton th in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 173.676 Ton th for 2016. United Kingdom Crude Oil Production: Offshore Field: Alwyn North data is updated yearly, averaging 679.426 Ton th from Dec 1987 (Median) to 2017, with 31 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4,366.866 Ton th in 1990 and a record low of 16.783 Ton th in 2017. United Kingdom Crude Oil Production: Offshore Field: Alwyn North data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Oil & Gas Authority. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.RB028: Petroleum: Production: By Offshore Field.

Gas production in the United Kingdom reached **** billion therms in 2018/19. Over the following six years, this figure is expected to decrease to **** billion therms by 2024/25. With fracking a contentious practice and many oil and gas fields in the North Sea depleted, the UK is set to become more reliant on energy imports.

In 2024/25, the UK government's North Sea revenue was 4.6 billion British pounds, compared with 5.4 billion in the previous reporting year. North Sea revenue refers to revenues from petroleum revenue tax, corporation tax and license fees from all offshore oil and gas activity in the North Sea.

The size of the North Sea Region Oil & Gas Industry market was valued at USD XX Million in 2023 and is projected to reach USD XXX Million by 2032, with an expected CAGR of 3.00">> 3.00% during the forecast period. Key drivers for this market are: 4., Increased Government Regulations for Greenhouse Gas Emissions 4.; Encouraging Production and Consumption of Renewable Aviation Fuel. Potential restraints include: 4., The High Costs of Renewable Aviation Fuel. Notable trends are: Upstream Sector to Dominate the Market.

United Kingdom Crude Oil Production: Offshore Field: Cormorant North data was reported at 59.004 Ton th in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 260.910 Ton th for 2016. United Kingdom Crude Oil Production: Offshore Field: Cormorant North data is updated yearly, averaging 1,445.836 Ton th from Dec 1982 (Median) to 2017, with 36 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5,275.915 Ton th in 1986 and a record low of 59.004 Ton th in 2017. United Kingdom Crude Oil Production: Offshore Field: Cormorant North data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Oil & Gas Authority. The data is categorized under Global Database’s UK – Table UK.RB028: Petroleum: Production: By Offshore Field.

In 2023, Norway’s oil reserves stood at **** billion barrels. The country has seen an overall decline in its proved oil reserves since the ***** when proved reserves exceeded ** billion barrels. In line with this development, Norway’s oil production has also decreased for much of the *****, falling to some *** million barrels per day in 2023. Norwegian shelf exploration Covering an area of ******* square kilometers, the North Sea is the most explored part of the Norwegian continental shelf, with Norway’s first oil discovery occurring in the Central North Sea area. Presently, there are approximately ** fields in production here. Although North Sea reserves are depleting, an estimated ** percent of the Norwegian shelf’s undiscovered resources are in the Barents Sea. Reliance on exports Norway is an important exporter of oil. Most of the country’s oil is exported and is a main source of revenue. **** billion U.S. dollars’ worth of crude oil was exported by Norway in 2022. Apart from Russia, it is Europe's only large-scale oil supplier.

Most of the world's oil rigs are located on land. At the end of 2024, there were ***** operational onshore oil rigs, compared with *** offshore rigs. The decline in offshore rigs is mainly due to a fall in proved reserves in the North Sea. Annual average rig numbers and offshore rig utilization Similar to end of year figures, the annual average number of global oil rigs also decreased in 2024, reaching ***** units. North America is the region with the greatest number of oil and gas rigs. In the last four years, worldwide market utilization rate for offshore oil rigs generally ranged between ** and *** percent, with South America regularly boasting the highest rate of around *** percent. The role of oil in meeting energy demand In the current evolving energy sector, oil rigs and as such oil production continue to play a significant role in meeting energy demand. Despite greater rollout of renewables, oil products remain heavily used in the transportation and manufacturing sectors, especially. Today, oil and gas account for more than ** percent of worldwide primary energy consumption.

The North Sea Interactive (NSI) project was an 8-month NERC funded project led by Heriot-Watt University, in collaboration with the BGS and NOC. The aim of the project was to develop a new decision-support tool that would translate existing marine environmental data into an interactive mapping product for the offshore oil and gas industry. The objectives of the project were achieved through the integration of the North Sea Benthos database (UKBenthos) with NERC 's regional North Sea marine sediment data (BGS) and layers of modelled hydrodynamics (NOC). Aligning the biological, chemical, geological and hydrodynamic datasets in a single GIS product provides the oil industry and government regulators with a practical means of accessing this important archive of environmental data. The North Sea Benthos database (UKBenthos) was developed by Heriot -Watt University on behalf of UKOOA (now Oil and Gas UK) in the 1980s. Alongside macrobenthos, the database includes sediment properties, concentrations of aromatic compounds, total oil and metals. It currently includes data from 1975 to 2011 from 237 platforms and is continually being updated as new survey results are received by Oil and Gas UK.

This app shows the petroleum production reporting system (PPRS) data at monthly intervals.