Statistics Norway

Oil activities

3   Principal figures for service activities incidental to oil and gas extraction excluding surveying1. 1998-2004
  1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Employees 8 080 9 082 7 743 9 786 12 358 12 569 12 469
  NOK million
Wage costs 4 896 5 000 4 536 6 726 7 694 8 292 8 700
Gross value of production 18 687 18 503 15 863 23 929 26 849 25 877 27 090
Intermediate consumption 11 126 9 908 9 443 12 987 14 906 15 009 18 256
Value added 7 561 8 595 6 420 10 942 11 943 10 868 8 834
Gross investment  622 1 763 2 126 4 963 4 522 -1 363 1 904
1  This industrial classification group consists of drilling of wells and technical services in the oil and gas sector.

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