1.1 The purpose of the reporting

Pursuant to Section 50a of the Regulations to Act relating to petroleum activities, operating companies shall submit data for use in the revised national budget (RNB):

“The reporting shall include economic company data, projects, resource volumes and prognosis
for production, costs and environmental emissions as specified by the recipient”.

Every year by 15 October, all operating companies shall submit data and forecasts for their respective operated fields, discoveries, transportation- and utilization facilities (TUF). Note that the economic company data is not part of the RNB reporting and shall be reported to the Ministry of Energy (MoE) in accordance with their deadlines.

The reporting to the RNB comprises part of the basis for the Government's petroleum and environmental policies, as well as the fiscal and national budget. These forecasts are important, and great emphasis is therefore placed on ensuring that high-quality reporting is provided within the stated deadlines.

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (the Directorate) quality-assures and organizes the data reported by the companies. The Directorate also prepares its own estimates and classifies the resources based on its own knowledge and assumptions. Based on this, the Directorate updates the resource account for the Norwegian continental shelf and prepares overall forecasts. The forecasts are submitted to the MoE and forwarded to the Ministry of Finance.

The forecasts and the resource account are incorporated in several analyses and various publications, such as the “The petroleum resources on the Norwegian continental shelf” and the websites sodir.no and norskpetroleum.no.

The data received will be considered exempted from public disclosure pursuant to Section 13 of the Freedom of Information Act, and to Section 13 of the Public Administration Act, 1st paragraph number 2. Reserves, in-place resources and CAPEX associated to the reserves, are published per field on the Directorate’s web site. Recoverable resources are published per reported discoveries.

1.2 Deadlines and Requirements

The operators' deadline for submitting the reports to the Directorate is 15 October. It is important that you deliver at the deadline, for the Directorate to meet subsequent deadline with the MoE.

The guidelines are provided in English. Please contact the Directorate for any questions regarding the reporting.

If there are significant changes to the reporting due to the budgetary processes in the production licensees’ management committees after 15 October, please contact the Directorate as soon as possible to clarify whether there is a need to submit an updated reporting.
 
Companies submit data to Collabor8 either via API or using an Excel template provided by Offshore Norway. Collabor8 will then convert the submitted data into the JSON exchange format required by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate. The transfer from Collabor8 to the Directorate includes a validation service that checks compliance of the information from both the data phase and the defined scope. Depending on the severity of any validation errors, the report must either be corrected, or the error messages must be addressed with proper comments. Data is not considered received by the Directorate until it has successfully passed validation.

1.3 Content Changes from Last Year's Reporting

There are changes in the Guidelines in the following areas:

• Description of the variables to be reported are available in Collabor8 and as an attachment to this guideline.
• New data types have been introduced. To ensure completeness in CO₂ emissions reporting, venting of CO₂ must now be reported using the parameter "CO2ContributionVenting".
• Variables earlier used solely for calculation of power demand on platforms, recipe of gas, deliveries of gas and liquids, gas lift and injection from main field have been removed.
• Reporting now includes new parameters for the injection of CO₂, natural gas, and water
  for disposal purposes, separate from the field's resource management activities.
• The previous general description to each Project Group is split into two explanatory parameters. “GeneralDescription” for a description of the activity reported and “VolumeChangesExplanation” for comments on changes in volumes and production/sales profiles from last year’s report.
• Providers of tariff services must be entered as "ExternalReportingObjectReference" from a valid list of objects (NPDID). Tariff costs profiles must be reported separately on different providers, the explanation “TariffCostExplanation” could be used if necessary.
• Objects included in calculation of energy demand, disposal of products and emissions, as well as sources of purchased gas must be entered with a NPDID. This is information only, and there is no need to separate the influence from each object.

1.4 Quality Assurance and updates from the operators

It is very important that the operator performs an internal quality check to ensure the high quality of data before submission to the Directorate. If the Directorate identifies errors, lack of information or ambiguities in the submitted report, the issuer of the report will receive feedback. The operator must then either submit a corrected report or respond to the comments.

The person responsible for the operator's reporting shall ensure:

• that the reporting is in accordance with the approved Scope
• that a correct project group is linked to the various projects
• that correct reporting is submitted to the authorities by the deadline stated in the dispatch letter
• that there is consistency between data types
• that contributions from the respective disciplines are quality assured

Quality implies that the reporting is in accordance with the requirements listed in the General Guidelines.