Oil activities

1   Principal figures for extraction of crude oil and natural gas1. 1997-2001
  1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Employees 16 183 15 865 15 998 14 283 14 467
Offshore 4 969 5 192 5 485 4 822 5 179
Onshore 11 214 10 673 10 513 9 461 9 288
  Mill. NOK
Compensation of employees 10 223 10 489 11 919 11 949 13 395
Offshore 2 834 3 303 4 010 4 562 5 754
Onshore 7 388 7 186 7 909 7 387 7 641
           
Gross value of production  190 273  138 781  187 296  365 420  336 772
Of this          
Value of goods produced on own account  178 477  129 065  174 270  348 809  319 213
           
Intermediate consumption 25 708 26 532 29 298 228 843 33 986
Of this          
Fields on stream 16 642 17 625 17 868 20 331 24 065
Non-operator costs 2 721 3 106 3 027 1 300 2 220
           
Value added  164 564  112 249  157 998  325 078  302 785
           
Royalties, total 10 299 7 374 7 148 4 670 4 505
Of this          
Production royalties 7 272 4 200 4 073 2227r 1 712
CO2-royalties 3 027 3 174 3 075 2 443 2 793
           
Value added at factor price  154 265  104 875  150 850  320 408  298 280
           
Accrued investments 54 319 70 830 64 403 52 898 54 967
1  The definition of the industrial group has been changed from the year 1993. This thus only contributes to a small part of the change in the numbers for employees and wages onshore, gross value of production, intermediate consumption and accrued investments compared to earlier years.
2  Corrected 10 November 2004.
More information: Division for Energy and Industrial Production Statistics.

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