Margins and profitability in other support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction
65 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 6.2 % of every krone.
17 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.
The distribution
What companies in the industry earned
One tenth of companies fell below -1.7 %, and one tenth above 18.6 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
Size
Profitability by size
| Revenue | Companies | Median operating margin |
|---|---|---|
| 20 to 100 m | 15 | 4.7 % |
| over 100 m | 49 | 6.2 % |
Companies are split into revenue bands, with the median margin in each. Bands with fewer than ten companies are omitted, because the median becomes too unstable to show.
Geography
Where the companies are based
- Sandefjord1
- Mongstad1
- Kristiansand S1
The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
5 of 65 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 7.7 %.
Only 5 companies in the industry have won a public contract since 2022. That is too few for us to say how large they are compared with the rest.
The 7 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Anskaffelser i Akershus, Buskerud og Østfold KO2
- Bane NOR SF2
- Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (Havtil)1
- Statens vegvesen1
- Statsbygg1
Contracts come from Doffin and TED. Our collection is not complete, and TED covers only contracts above the EEA threshold, so the figures are a floor and not a full count. We say what we find, not what exists.
Questions and answers
Common questions about other support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction
- What is a normal operating margin in other support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction?
- The median company kept 6.2 % of every krone. That means half of the 65 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in other support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction?
- The top third kept 14.8 % of every krone, against 0.0 % for the weakest third. The spread is 15 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in other support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 65 Norwegian companies on this industry code with at least one million kroner in revenue. The real number is higher, since dormant and very small companies are excluded.
- How many are loss-making in other support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction?
- 17 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in other support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction?
- Median revenue is 211.6 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 101.5 m kr and 778.6 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in other support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction?
- We find almost no public contracts in this industry since 2022, so public procurement appears to play little role here.
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