Oil field · UK

Shaw

Name: Shaw oil field monthly production
Creator: North Sea Transition Authority
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Shaw is an oil field in the central North Sea, operated by NEO NEXT+ Energy. It was discovered in 2009 and has produced since 2017. In July 2026 it produced about 4,800 barrels of oil and condensate and 0.13 million cubic metres of gas a day.

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Production

Shaw has produced about 32.2 million barrels of oil and condensate and 876 million cubic metres of gas since May 2017.

Oil and condensate, barrels a day, by month

Latest: 4,800 barrels a day in July 2026. Highest year: 2019, averaging 15,000 barrels a day. Highest month: September 2019.

Gas, million cubic metres a day, by month

Latest: 0.13 million cubic metres a day in July 2026. Highest year: 2019, averaging 0.39 million cubic metres a day. Highest month: January 2022.

Average production by year

Year	Oil and condensate, barrels a day	Gas, million m³ a day
2026 (Jan–Jul)	5,500	0.15
2025	5,100	0.14
2024	5,500	0.16
2023	6,700	0.2
2022	8,000	0.26
2021	9,500	0.25
2020	14,000	0.36
2019	15,000	0.39
2018	14,000	0.35
2017 (May–Dec)	11,000	0.29

Field details

Status	Producing
Type	Oil field
Operator	NEO NEXT+ Energy
Partners	NEO NEXT + Energy Delta Limited 58% Ithaca MA Limited 41% NEO NEXT + Energy Resources UK Limited 0%
Original operator	Talisman
Discovered	June 2009 (well 22/22a-7)
First production	March 2017
Water depth	104 m
Region	Central North Sea
Wells inside the outline	11

Platforms and installations

No platforms or production ships are recorded on the field or within 2 km of it. It is probably produced through wells on the seabed, piped to a platform elsewhere.

Licences

The field lies in this current licence:

P291Ithaca Energy, NEO NEXT+ Energy

Nearby

Fields within 10 km: Arbroath (2.1 km), Arkwright (4.6 km), Carnoustie (5.8 km), Wood (6.9 km), Godwin (8.7 km), Brechin (9.4 km).
Protected areas overlapping the field: East of Gannet and Montrose Fields NCMPA.

Sources

Production: NSTA, UKCS field production reports (PPRS), monthly to July 2026. Field details, platforms, licences and wells: NSTA open data, as on the atlas map. Contains information provided by the North Sea Transition Authority and/or other third parties. Used under the NSTA Open User Licence.

Offshore Data Atlas converts the reported volumes to barrels and cubic metres a day (one cubic metre is 6.29 barrels). UK gas figures are all the gas produced, including gas used offshore as fuel, flared or put back into the reservoir.