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Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD–2001) One of the principal tasks of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) is to maintain an overview of petroleum resources so that authorities can have the best possible basis for planning measures to ensure that they are well managed, and to forecast future production and activity. The NPD’s annual updating of the resource account for expected recoverable resources focuses on classification by maturity. This system was developed in 1997. Based on experience gained in using the system and in cooperation with several oil companies, the NPD developed and published its current revised system in 2001. The current system builds on the SPE/WPC/AAPG 2000 classification but expands on the project maturity aspect. The main principal in the NPD classification system is that originally recoverable resources in a field or discovery must be classified according to their position in the development chain, either from a discovery being made, or a new opportunity to increase recoverable resources in a field being identified, until production of the resources is complete. The system is designed to allow a single field or discovery being able to contain resources in different project status categories, i.e. resources at different stages of maturity in the development chain. All resources must, as far as possible, be reported with a high and a low estimate in addition to the “base estimate”. This allows an opportunity to describe the uncertainty in the resource quantities in both the individual fields and the full resource account (total portfolio). The resources are divided into ten different project status categories (Figure 1). Figure 1: Norwegian Petroleum Directorate ClassificationCategories 0 to 7 cover the discovered, recoverable resources, Possible future measures to improve the recovery factor are placed in category 7 along with discoveries that have not yet been evaluated. Categories 6 and 9 cover undiscovered resources. The “