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Martin Linge

Martin Linge is an oil and gas field in the North Sea, operated by Equinor Energy AS. The map shows the owners, the facilities, the pipelines, where the production comes ashore and the loading onto ships.

Show on the globeField pageFact page at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate

Marketable production, last 12 months
2.60 million Sm³ o.e.
Aug 2025–Jul 2026 · Sodir, production · 7 Oct 2026
Production Jul 2026
0.24 million Sm³ o.e.
Sodir, production · 7 Oct 2026
Gas, last 12 months
1.49 billion Sm³
Aug 2025–Jul 2026 · Sodir, production · 7 Oct 2026
Share of Norwegian production
1.05%
Estimate · Sodir, production · 7 Oct 2026
Remaining reserves
17.1 million Sm³ o.e.
as of 31 Dec 2025 · Sodir, reserves · 7 Oct 2026
Licensees
3
Sodir, licensees · 7 Oct 2026
Rigs that have drilled here in the last three years
1
Sodir, wellbores · 7 Oct 2026

Estimate: The field's marketable production over the last 12 months divided by the total for all fields (Sodir).

The network

From owner to market. Links without their own label have their source in the column heading; curated, derived and possible links are labelled at the link.

  • The colour shows the content:
  • Gas
  • Oil
  • Condensate
  • CO₂
  • Oil and condensate
  • The line shows the source:
  • pipeline in Sodir data
  • curated from Sodir's field description
  • possible onward route, not measured flow
  • planned or not in service

The links show direction, not volume.

Licensees
  • Equinor operator51.00%Equinor Energy AS · unchanged since 30 Sep 2022
  • Petoro (SDFI)30.00%Petoro AS · unchanged since 11 Jun 2012
  • DNO19.00%DNO Norge AS · unchanged since 30 Sep 2022
Sodir, licensees · 7 Oct 2026
The fieldSodir, fields · 28 Sep 2026; Sodir, production · 7 Oct 2026
Facilities and pipelinesSodir, facilities · 7 Oct 2026; Sodir, pipelines · 7 Oct 2026
Landfall
Market
  1. The fieldMartin LingeProducing · Oil and gas2.60 million Sm³ o.e. Aug 2025–Jul 2026Supply base: Tananger/Dusavik
    Facilities and pipelines

    Martin Linge A, B 2 facilities in service

    • Martin Linge Gassrør gas · 24″
    Landfall
    Market

    The receivers of the cargoes are not in the data.

Transport according to Sodir's field description

Rich gas is transported to the Frigg UK pipeline (FUKA), and on to the Shell-Esso Gas and Liquid (SEGAL) terminal at St Fergus in the UK. Oil and condensate are exported via tankers from the FSO.

Quoted from Sodir's field description, updated 20 Feb 2026. Sodir, field description

Notes

Rigs

Rigs that have drilled on Martin Linge in the last three yearsSodir, wellbores · 7 Oct 2026; Sodir, mobile facilities · 7 Oct 2026

RigResponsible company (Sodir)Latest wellOperatorSpuddedWellbores, 3 yrs
AskepottKCA Deutag30/4-A-18Equinor4 Apr 20267

Pipeline systems and plants

Pipeline systems and plants (TUF) that the field's pipelines belong to or that the production continues into, with the owners. “The field's pipelines” means that the field's own pipelines belong to the system. The link comes from the pipelines in the map above.

Pipeline systems and plantsSodir, pipeline systems and plants · 7 Oct 2026

NameTypeOperatorLinkOwners
Martin Linge GassrørPipelineEquinorthe field's pipelinesEquinor 51.00%, Petoro (SDFI) 30.00%, DNO 19.00%

Fleet

Rigs drilling, offshore vessels at the facilities in the AIS picture 7 Oct 2026, 14:34 UTC and the supply vessels from the base in the last 30 days.

Rigs

Norwegian Offshore Directorate, exploration wells being drilled (NLOD 2.0), 7 Oct 2026 · Norwegian Offshore Directorate, wellbores spudded in the last 120 days (NLOD 2.0), 7 Oct 2026 · AIS from Kystverket (Norwegian Coastal Administration, Kystdatahuset real-time picture) (NLOD 1.0), 7 Oct 2026, 14:34 UTC · OESA, rig key Sodir ↔ MMSI ↔ IMO (curated: name match in AIS and SafeSeaNet, checked against the well) (NLOD 1.0 / NLOD 2.0), 7 Oct 2026

Visits, latest day with data: 1 Oct

Rigs and offshore vessels that lay within 2 km of a facility at under 1 knot for at least 30 minutes, according to the AIS positions for 1 Oct 2026 from the Norwegian Coastal Administration. Kystdatahuset publishes the history about a week late. A visit shows that the vessel was there, not who it worked for. AIS from Kystverket (Norwegian Coastal Administration, Kystdatahuset historical positions) (NLOD 1.0), latest day 1 Oct 2026 · Norwegian Coastal Administration, Kystdatahuset: register type (SafeSeaNet) (NLOD 1.0), 1 Oct 2026 · Norwegian Offshore Directorate, facilities with position (NLOD 2.0), 7 Oct 2026 · OESA, rig key Sodir ↔ MMSI ↔ IMO (curated) (NLOD 1.0 / NLOD 2.0), 7 Oct 2026

No rigs or offshore vessels lay at the facilities in the period.

Method: A visit is a continuous stay within 2 km of a facility at under 1 knot for at least 30 minutes, computed from the AIS positions. Gaps in the data of up to 60 minutes, or 3 hours when the vessel is in the same place before and after, do not count as interruptions. Hours are the sum of the visits. Only rigs and vessels with an offshore register type or registered with the Norwegian Offshore Directorate are included.

Who charters a rig or vessel, and at what rate, is not in open data. A vessel is linked to a field only when AIS shows it within 2 km of one of the field's own facilities or its host facility, at under 1 knot – that says the vessel was there, not who it works for. Facilities on the export route do not count. Tankers loading oil from production ships (FPSOs) and loading buoys are not included. AIS coverage offshore varies. A vessel without positions for a period may have been there without being recorded. Ship data: Norwegian Coastal Administration. Not for navigation.

Events

Ownership changes, exploration wells and discoveries, rigs that move, production start-up and contracts, with a link to the source.

No events in the last 12 months in the data.

Last 12 months (7 Oct 2025–7 Oct 2026). Sources: Norwegian Offshore Directorate (Sodir, NLOD 2.0): licence transfers (retrieved 7 Oct 2026), exploration wells and discoveries (7 Oct 2026), wellbores with drilling rig and the company responsible for the rig (7 Oct 2026) and field status (7 Oct 2026).

Economics

Estimated gross sales value of the field's marketable production, month by month.

Last 12 months
12.5 NOK bnestimateAug 2025–Jul 2026
July 2026
1.4 NOK bnestimateBrent USD 83.76/bbl · gas EUR 54.0/MWh
Share of the shelf's value
1.06%estimatelast 12 months
Gas in the value
59%estimatelast 12 months

Oil and condensateGasNGL

0.00.51.01.5August 2024: NOK 1.1 bn · Oil and condensate 0.42 · Gas 0.66 · NGL 0.05September 2024: NOK 0.50 bn · Oil and condensate 0.22 · Gas 0.25 · NGL 0.03October 2024: NOK 0.49 bn · Oil and condensate 0.11 · Gas 0.37 · NGL 0.02Oct 24November 2024: NOK 1.2 bn · Oil and condensate 0.42 · Gas 0.77 · NGL 0.05December 2024: NOK 1.3 bn · Oil and condensate 0.39 · Gas 0.82 · NGL 0.06January 2025: NOK 1.3 bn · Oil and condensate 0.40 · Gas 0.81 · NGL 0.05Jan 25February 2025: NOK 1.2 bn · Oil and condensate 0.33 · Gas 0.78 · NGL 0.05March 2025: NOK 0.98 bn · Oil and condensate 0.37 · Gas 0.57 · NGL 0.05April 2025: NOK 0.85 bn · Oil and condensate 0.25 · Gas 0.56 · NGL 0.04Apr 25May 2025: NOK 0.86 bn · Oil and condensate 0.27 · Gas 0.56 · NGL 0.03June 2025: NOK 0.93 bn · Oil and condensate 0.30 · Gas 0.60 · NGL 0.03July 2025: NOK 0.92 bn · Oil and condensate 0.29 · Gas 0.60 · NGL 0.03Jul 25August 2025: NOK 0.87 bn · Oil and condensate 0.27 · Gas 0.56 · NGL 0.03September 2025: NOK 0.78 bn · Oil and condensate 0.24 · Gas 0.50 · NGL 0.03October 2025: NOK 0.73 bn · Oil and condensate 0.23 · Gas 0.48 · NGL 0.02Oct 25November 2025: NOK 0.76 bn · Oil and condensate 0.27 · Gas 0.47 · NGL 0.03December 2025: NOK 0.87 bn · Oil and condensate 0.40 · Gas 0.44 · NGL 0.03January 2026: NOK 1.0 bn · Oil and condensate 0.43 · Gas 0.55 · NGL 0.03Jan 26February 2026: NOK 0.89 bn · Oil and condensate 0.37 · Gas 0.49 · NGL 0.03March 2026: NOK 1.5 bn · Oil and condensate 0.57 · Gas 0.86 · NGL 0.04April 2026: NOK 1.3 bn · Oil and condensate 0.59 · Gas 0.63 · NGL 0.04Apr 26May 2026: NOK 1.4 bn · Oil and condensate 0.55 · Gas 0.75 · NGL 0.05June 2026: NOK 1.1 bn · Oil and condensate 0.40 · Gas 0.66 · NGL 0.04July 2026: NOK 1.4 bn · Oil and condensate 0.42 · Gas 0.93 · NGL 0.04Jul 261.4
Show as table
Estimated sales value per month (NOK bn)
MonthOil and condensateGasNGLTotal (NOK bn)
Jul 20260.420.930.041.4
Jun 20260.400.660.041.1
May 20260.550.750.051.4
Apr 20260.590.630.041.3
Mar 20260.570.860.041.5
Feb 20260.370.490.030.89
Jan 20260.430.550.031.0
Dec 20250.400.440.030.87
Nov 20250.270.470.030.76
Oct 20250.230.480.020.73
Sep 20250.240.500.030.78
Aug 20250.270.560.030.87
Jul 20250.290.600.030.92
Jun 20250.300.600.030.93
May 20250.270.560.030.86
Apr 20250.250.560.040.85
Mar 20250.370.570.050.98
Feb 20250.330.780.051.2
Jan 20250.400.810.051.3
Dec 20240.390.820.061.3
Nov 20240.420.770.051.2
Oct 20240.110.370.020.49
Sep 20240.220.250.030.50
Aug 20240.420.660.051.1

The owners, last 12 monthsestimate

OwnerShareValue
Equinor51.00%6.4 NOK bn
Petoro (SDFI)30.00%3.7 NOK bn
DNO19.00%2.4 NOK bn

Share: the equity share today. Value: estimated sales value of the share over the last 12 months, with the share in force each month.

Check against Statistics Norway

For the whole shelf the method gives NOK 1,180.9 bn for Aug 2025–Jul 2026. Statistics Norway's export value for crude oil, condensate, pipeline gas, LNG, propane and butane was NOK 1,107.3 bn, −6.2% against the estimate. Month by month the difference ranged from −10.5% (June 2026) to −1.0% (January 2026); Statistics Norway was below the estimate in all 12 months. Crude oil and condensate in the trade statistics (commodity numbers 2709.0009 and 2709.0001) were 93% of oil and condensate production, and pipeline gas (2711.2100) was 94% of gas production in the same months. On top of this, 4.35 million tonnes of LNG (2711.1100) were exported. Statistics Norway reports LNG only in tonnes, so it is not included in the gas percentage. The prices in Statistics Norway's export statistics differed on average by −0.8% from Brent and −0.7% from the gas price, but by up to −10.7% for oil in a single month (June 2026). Exports of propane and butane averaged 58% of NGL production converted to tonnes, so the NGL price only covers part of the products.

How the estimate is calculated

Estimated gross sales value, calculated by OESA: for each field and month, (oil + condensate) × 6.2898 bbl/Sm³ × Brent (USD/bbl) × USD/NOK, gas × 0.011111 MWh/Sm³ (40 MJ) × European gas price (EUR/MWh) × EUR/NOK and NGL ÷ 1.9 Sm³ o.e. per tonne × NGL price (NOK/tonne) are added up. A company's figure is the field value times the equity share in force on the 15th of each month, summed over the fields and the group's legal entities. These are not the companies' own figures. Prices in July 2026: Brent USD 83.76/bbl, gas in Europe USD 18.06/mmbtu (EUR 53.97/MWh), NGL NOK 5,142/tonne, USD/NOK 9.7064 and EUR/NOK 11.0822. Sources of error: Brent and TTF are benchmark prices. Actual sales prices depend on crude quality, timing of sales, contracts and hub (NBP, THE, PEG, ZTP). The production month is not the sales month: cargoes are lifted and sold at other times (over/underlift, storage). The energy content of gas is set to 40 MJ/Sm³ for all fields, and NGL to 1.9 Sm³ o.e. per tonne. Both vary between fields. NGL is priced with Statistics Norway's export price for propane and butane; ethane and other NGL products may have other prices. Transport tariffs (Gassled), tax (78%), costs and hedging are not deducted. The figure is market sales value, not netback at the field or profit. LNG from Melkøya is priced as pipeline gas.

Sources: Norwegian Offshore Directorate, marketable production per field and month, NLOD 2.0, 7 Oct 2026. U.S. Energy Information Administration, Europe Brent Spot Price FOB (RBRTE), via FRED (DCOILBRENTEU), Public Domain: Citation Requested (FRED), 7 Oct 2026. EIA lists «Refinitiv, an LSEG business» as the source of the spot prices. World Bank, Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), monthly prices, «Natural gas, Europe», CC BY 4.0, 2 Oct 2026. From April 2015 the series is TTF (Netherlands), according to the World Bank's description in the file. Norges Bank, exchange rates (EXR), monthly average, NLOD 2.0, 7 Oct 2026. The licence is stated on the dataset «API for åpne data» at data.norge.no. Norges Bank's own open-data page states no licence. Statistics Norway, table 08799: External trade in goods by commodity number, imports/exports, country and month (exports, all countries), CC BY 4.0, 15 Sep 2026. Value ÷ quantity for exported propane (2711.1200) and butane (2711.1300). Statistics Norway notes that 0 may also mean the figure is confidential. The estimates are calculated by OESA and are not the companies' own figures.

Sources

All figures and links on the page come from these sources. Curated links are entered by hand by OESA from the source text, and the quote is checked against the source at every build.

Not in the data: Flow in each pipeline, which field's gas ends up in which country, and the buyers of oil and gas. Gas is mixed in the network, so a “possible route” is a pipeline connection, not measured flow.