Field · the network on the Norwegian shelf
Vilje
Vilje is an oil field in the North Sea, operated by Aker BP ASA. 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
- 0.12 million Sm³ o.e.
- Aug 2025–Jul 2026 · Sodir, production · 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.
- Aker BP operator75.76%Aker BP ASA · unchanged since 29 Dec 2025
- ORLEN24.24%ORLEN Upstream Norway AS · unchanged since 30 Dec 2014
- The fieldViljeProducing · Oil0.12 million Sm³ o.e. Aug 2025–Jul 2026Facilities and pipelines
3 subsea facilities in service
Processed at Alvheim curated, Sodir 20 Feb 2026
- Alvheim Rikgassrør gas · 14″ · onward to SAGE-T
Landfall- Loaded onto ships oil curated, Sodir 20 Feb 2026
- St Fergus United Kingdom · gas · via SAGE curated, Sodir 20 Feb 2026
MarketThe receivers of the cargoes are not in the data.
Transport according to Sodir's field description
The well stream is routed by pipeline to the Alvheim FPSO, where the oil is offloaded to shuttle tankers. The gas is transported by pipeline from Alvheim to the Scottish Area Gas Evacuation (SAGE) pipeline in the UK sector.
Quoted from Sodir's field description, updated 20 Feb 2026. Sodir, field description
Notes
- Oil loaded onto ships has no fixed route after the field. The buyers are not known.
- The gas continues in UK pipelines that are not in the Sodir data. Whether it is included in the ENTSOG figure for St Fergus has not been established.
- The arrows show direction, not volume. The direction is Sodir's from → to for each pipeline; Sodir has no flow per pipeline.
Events
Ownership changes, exploration wells and discoveries, rigs that move, production start-up and contracts, with a link to the source.
- Ownership
Aker BP acquired interests in 8 production licences from DNO
Fields: Heimdal and Vilje
At Sodir: PL 036 D (28.853%), PL 293 B (9%), PL 293 CS (9%), PL 1171 (16%), PL 1175 (10%), PL 1175 B (10%), PL 1204 (20%), PL 1204 BS (20%)
Last 12 months (7 Oct 2025–7 Oct 2026). Ownership: name changes and moves within a group are left out. The field is named only when the licence owns the field directly at Sodir. 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
- 573 NOK mestimateAug 2025–Jul 2026
- July 2026
- 60 NOK mestimateBrent USD 83.76/bbl · gas EUR 54.0/MWh
- Share of the shelf's value
- 0.049%estimatelast 12 months
- Gas in the value
- 0%estimatelast 12 months
Oil and condensate
Show as table
| Month | Oil and condensate | Total (NOK m) |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2026 | 60 | 60 |
| Jun 2026 | 59 | 59 |
| May 2026 | 57 | 57 |
| Apr 2026 | 66 | 66 |
| Mar 2026 | 66 | 66 |
| Feb 2026 | 40 | 40 |
| Jan 2026 | 37 | 37 |
| Dec 2025 | 35 | 35 |
| Nov 2025 | 33 | 33 |
| Oct 2025 | 38 | 38 |
| Sep 2025 | 39 | 39 |
| Aug 2025 | 45 | 45 |
| Jul 2025 | 40 | 40 |
| Jun 2025 | 38 | 38 |
| May 2025 | 37 | 37 |
| Apr 2025 | 37 | 37 |
| Mar 2025 | 45 | 45 |
| Feb 2025 | 44 | 44 |
| Jan 2025 | 54 | 54 |
| Dec 2024 | 46 | 46 |
| Nov 2024 | 32 | 32 |
| Oct 2024 | 70 | 70 |
| Sep 2024 | 59 | 59 |
| Aug 2024 | 72 | 72 |
The owners, last 12 monthsestimate
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.
- Norwegian Offshore Directorate, licensees per field (current shares) 7 Oct 2026 · licence NLOD 2.0
- Norwegian Offshore Directorate, fields: status, operator and supply base 28 Sep 2026 · licence NLOD 2.0
- Norwegian Offshore Directorate, facilities 7 Oct 2026 · licence NLOD 2.0
- Norwegian Offshore Directorate, marketable production per field and month 7 Oct 2026 · licence NLOD 2.0
- Norwegian Offshore Directorate, reserves per field 7 Oct 2026 · licence NLOD 2.0
- Norwegian Offshore Directorate, transport pipelines 7 Oct 2026 · licence NLOD 2.0
- Norwegian Offshore Directorate, field description Alvheim (Transport), curated by OESA 20 Feb 2026 · licence NLOD 2.0
- Norwegian Offshore Directorate, field description Vilje (Transport), curated by OESA 20 Feb 2026 · licence NLOD 2.0
- Norwegian Offshore Directorate, field description Volund (SAGE to St Fergus), curated by OESA 20 Feb 2026 · licence NLOD 2.0
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.