Did you know that... 

This North Sea field has produced some four billion barrels of oil and roughly 70 billion standard cubic metres of gas, worth a total of NOK 1 045 billion.

And it is not finished yet.

Did you know that...

• Statfjord is the largest oil field on the NCS
• the discovery of Statfjord was announced by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate on 26 February 1974
• the field originally bore the nickname “Hjemmebrent” because it was thought to be part of Britain’s nearby Brent field (hjemme means “at home”, but hjemmebrent is moonshine liquor)
• the concrete gravity base structure for Statfjord A was originally intended for Britain’s Beryl B platform
• the Statfjord A topside ranked as the largest structure of its kind in the world when it was ready in 1977
• production licence 037, which covers the Norwegian share of Statfjord (more than 85 per cent of the total field), was the first in which Statoil received a holding of 50 per cent or more
• StatoilHydro holds just over 44 per cent of the combined field, including the UK share
• Statfjord set a production record of 850,204 barrels in a single day on 16 January 1987, corresponding to roughly 88 per cent of Statoil’s average total daily production in the third quarter of 2004
• Statfjord has so far produced oil worth NOK 1 045 billion – more than 150 per cent of the total Norwegian government budget for 2005
• if all the barrels of oil produced by Statfjord were placed one atop the other, they would create a pillar 16 times higher than the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
• the Statfjord recovery factor was originally put at 48.5 per cent, with production expected to cease in the mid-1990s
• the present recovery factor for the field is 63 per cent, and we pursue plans to keep it on stream until 2020
• the cost of each of Statfjord’s three platforms was recovered less than a year after coming on stream
• Statfjord was intended to be the first in a series of field names starting with “Stat”, with Sleipner East due to be called Statvik and Gullfaks being named Statdal
• Statfjord could have been called Nansen if Statoil’s naming policy had been rejected
• the Storting (parliament) voted on 16 June 1976 over how many platforms were required on Statfjord
• a total of 1,015 people were permanently employed. in shifts, on the three Statfjord platforms in January 1989
• today’s permanent workforce on the field totals 620 people, with part of the activities previously carried out offshore transferred to land
• Statfjord A was the world’s first production platform with female personnel on board