Licensing round applicant companies

STO-REC-STAT01M2KJT1 Official
21

Norway · 2025

Licensing round applicant companies in Norway stood at 21 in 2025 (Sodir).

Original source
Publisher
Sodir
Authority tier
T1 Official
Locator
Growing exploration interest
Retrieved
15 Sep 2026
Status
Verified

What the source says

The authorities have received applications from 21 companies in the Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) 2025.

Norwegian Offshore Directorate, General news · Growing exploration interest
Verbatim extraction verified: The figure 21 is directly attested in the quoted passage (Growing exploration interest).

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Other sources disagree

1 record reports a different value for this same indicator, region and period. We keep both rather than choosing or averaging. The disagreement is itself information.

ValueDivergenceSource organisationDocumentLocatorDetails
20-4.8%SodirGeneral newsInterest in exploration on the Norwegian continental shelf remains highOpen record

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APA
Norwegian Offshore Directorate. (2025). General news. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.sodir.no/en/whats-new/news/general-news/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T1E
MLA
Norwegian Offshore Directorate. "General news." 2025, https://www.sodir.no/en/whats-new/news/general-news/. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T1E.
Chicago
Norwegian Offshore Directorate. "General news." 2025. https://www.sodir.no/en/whats-new/news/general-news/. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T1E.
BibTeX
@misc{sodir2025licensingdt9t1e, author = {{Norwegian Offshore Directorate}}, title = {General news}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T1E}, note = {Original source: https://www.sodir.no/en/whats-new/news/general-news/. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }

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Primary Source

Publisher
Norwegian Offshore Directorate · homepage ↗
Authority tier
Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
Report
General news
Type
Press release
Published
Locator
Growing exploration interest
Retrieved
15 September 2026
Link status
Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence
See source

Verification & Integrity

Audit status
Verified
Review protocol
Editorial review
Checked on
15 September 2026
Last revision
15 September 2026
Archival URI
/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T1E