EIA: Norway remained third largest natural gas exporter in 2015

Norway retained its position as the third largest natural gas exporter, behind Russia and Qatar, and produced 4.1 Tcf of dry natural gas in 2015, according to the latest report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. 

About 95 percent of the country’s natural gas production was exported in 2015, the report shows.

Shipments of Norwegian LNG totaled approximately 198 Bcf in 2015, up from 184 Bcf in 2014. European countries received 58 percent of Norway’s LNG exports in 2015, most of which were exported to the Netherlands.

Norway’s largest producing natural gas field is Troll, which produced 1.2 Tcf in 2015, representing 30 percent of Norway’s total natural gas production that year.

The four next-largest producing fields in 2015 were Ormen Lange (0.6 Tcf), Åsgard (0.3 Tcf), Kvitebjørn (0.2 Tcf), and Snøhvit (0.2 Tcf). These five fields accounted for 63 percent of Norway’s total dry natural gas production in 2015.

Snøhvit supplies the Statoil-operated Hammerfest LNG facility on Melkoya Island, with a capacity to export 4.2 million tons of LNG per year.

Norway had eight oil and natural gas fields under development as of September 2016, two of which have significant natural gas reserves, the Martin Linge field in the North Sea with an estimated 0.7 Tcf of recoverable reserves and Aasta Hansteen in the Norwegian Sea, with an estimated 1.6 Tcf of recoverable natural gas. Both fields are scheduled to begin production around 2018.