Sodir Norway Petroleum Scraper — NCS Fields & Wellbores

Extract structured data from the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (Sodir) factpages covering the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Returns wellbores (9,800), fields (143), discoveries (650), and licences (1,810) with production volumes, reserve estimates, coordinates, operators, and licence holder details — sourced directly from Norway's official petroleum regulator.

What does the Sodir Norway Petroleum Scraper do?

• Scrapes four NCS dataset types from the Sodir factpage portal: wellbore, field, discovery, licence
• Returns wellbore coordinates (WGS84), total depth, water depth, wellbore type, content, and drilling status
• Returns field-level reserve estimates for oil, gas, NGL, and condensate — remaining and recoverable volumes
• Optionally includes monthly production history — approximately 28,000 rows back to first oil production on the NCS
• Optionally includes reserve breakdown by year (includeReserves)
• Filterable by geographic area (North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea) and operator name
• No authentication required; no proxies needed

What data does it extract?

Wellbore fields

Field	Description
wellboreType	EXPLORATION, DEVELOPMENT, CO2_STORAGE, or OTHER
purpose	Wellbore purpose
status	Wellbore status (e.g. P&A, Producing, Injecting)
content	Petroleum content found (e.g. OIL, GAS, DRY)
drillingOperator	Company that drilled the well
mainArea	NCS area: NORTH SEA, NORWEGIAN SEA, or BARENTS SEA
totalDepthMdM	Total measured depth in metres
finalVerticalDepthM	True vertical depth in metres
waterDepthM	Water depth at wellbore location in metres
latitudeWgs84	Latitude (WGS84)
longitudeWgs84	Longitude (WGS84)
drillingFacility	Rig or platform used
block	NCS block identifier

Field fields

Field	Description
fieldStatus	Field status (e.g. PRODUCING, SHUT DOWN, APPROVED FOR PRODUCTION)
discoveryYear	Year of discovery
productionStartDate	Production start date
operatorName	Current operator
hcType	Hydrocarbon type (OIL, GAS, OIL/GAS CONDENSATE)
ownerKind	Ownership category
ownerName	Field owner
recoverableOilMillSm3	Recoverable oil volume (million Sm3)
recoverableGasBillSm3	Recoverable gas volume (billion Sm3)
recoverableNglMillSm3	Recoverable NGL volume (million Sm3)
recoverableCondensateMillSm3	Recoverable condensate volume (million Sm3)
remainingOilMillSm3	Remaining oil reserves (million Sm3)
remainingGasBillSm3	Remaining gas reserves (billion Sm3)
reservesYear	Year of reserve estimate

Monthly production fields (when includeMonthlyProduction: true)

Field	Description
productionYear	Production year
productionMonth	Production month
prodOilNetMillSm3	Net oil production (million Sm3)
prodGasNetBillSm3	Net gas production (billion Sm3)
prodNglNetMillSm3	Net NGL production (million Sm3)
prodCondensateNetMillSm3	Net condensate production (million Sm3)

Licence fields

Field	Description
licencingActivity	Licensing round or activity
licenceArea	Geographic area of the licence
licenceStatus	Status (ACTIVE, RELINQUISHED, CONVERTED)
licenceDateGranted	Date the licence was granted
licenceDateValidTo	Licence expiry date
licenceCurrentArea	Current licence area in km2
licenceHolders	Pipe-separated list of licence holder companies and equity percentages

How to use it

Select a datasetType or use all to retrieve all four dataset types in a single run. Use mainArea to narrow wellbore and discovery records to a specific NCS region. Enable includeMonthlyProduction to add ~28,000 production history rows to field records — this significantly increases run time and record count.

Field	Type	Default	Description
datasetType	string	wellbore	wellbore, field, discovery, licence, or all
mainArea	string	all	all, NORTH SEA, NORWEGIAN SEA, or BARENTS SEA
operatorFilter	string	—	Filter by operator name (partial match)
includeMonthlyProduction	boolean	false	Attach monthly production history to field records (~28,000 additional rows)
includeReserves	boolean	false	Include annual reserve estimates per field
maxItems	integer	—	Maximum records per dataset type

Use cases

• E&P screening and prospect generation — Query wellbores by mainArea and filter on content, status, and depth to identify analogues for new prospects in the Barents Sea. Filter on wellboreType=CO2_STORAGE to identify depleted NCS structures actively being assessed for carbon injection sites under the Norwegian CCS program.
• Reserves and production modelling — Combine field reserve volumes with monthly production history (~28,000 rows back to first oil) to build production decline curves and remaining reserve depletion models for financial analysis.
• Licence tenure and transfer monitoring — The NCS has 1,810 licences; track operator changes in licenceHolders, approaching expiry dates in licenceDateValidTo, and relinquishment activity via licenceStatus for M&A intelligence.
• Portfolio benchmarking — Compare operator recovery factors across fields by dividing cumulative production against recoverableOilMillSm3 for each operator across the North Sea, Norwegian Sea, and Barents Sea.
• Academic and policy research — Build a longitudinal dataset of NCS production volumes and reserve evolution using the reservesYear field to study the maturation of the Norwegian petroleum province.

FAQ

How many records does each dataset type contain? Approximate record counts from the Sodir factpages: wellbores ~9,800, fields ~143, discoveries ~650, licences ~1,810. Monthly production rows (when enabled) add ~28,000 records for field-level history.

Is Sodir data freely available and reusable? Yes. The Norwegian Offshore Directorate publishes NCS data as open government data under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD). It is freely reusable for commercial and non-commercial purposes with attribution.

What is the CO2_STORAGE wellbore type? Sodir classifies dedicated carbon storage wells separately from exploration and development wells. Filter wellboreType=CO2_STORAGE to retrieve wells drilled specifically for CO2 injection into subsurface storage formations — relevant for CCS project screening.

Results are available for export in JSON, CSV, and Excel formats from the Apify dataset tab.