Rystad Energy is an independent energy research and business intelligence company headquartered at Akersgata 51 in central Oslo. It was founded in 2004 by Jarand Rystad, a physicist and former McKinsey partner, and remains privately held, with the founder holding the majority of the shares and senior staff holding a minority. The company's own about page states 900 employees worldwide, 31 locations and 70 nationalities, and it describes its research as granular and bottom-up: assembled from individual wells, fields and projects rather than from aggregated published statistics.
Four service lines
The business is organised around Data, Analytics, Advisory and Education. The data side maintains commercial databases on fields, projects, costs and company performance that clients reach through an online portal and through the Cube browser download offered on the website. Analytics is delivered as an online library of reports, articles and factsheets, supported by a weekly podcast and a webinar series called The Roundtables. Advisory covers commissioned studies and commercial support, and the education arm runs tailored energy courses for companies that want their staff to understand market and technology fundamentals.
Research coverage
Coverage has widened well beyond upstream oil and gas. Company insights published in 2026 include work on exploration and production investment and share buybacks, workover and remediation markets in the Middle East and North Africa, gas turbine supply chains, European offshore wind monopile manufacturing, hydrogen and geothermal sector analysis, aviation decarbonisation and a Gastech 2026 whitepaper on market conditions. A monthly newsletter and a fourth edition of its House View report carry the same material to a wider readership, and the company's datasets are routinely cited by operators, service companies, investors and journalists.
Spektra and the 2026 platform push
The most visible change in 2026 is Spektra, an AI-native market intelligence platform that brings Rystad Energy's commercial databases into a single workspace. Spektra entered beta in June 2026 and reached full commercial availability at Rystad Energy Innovate, an online broadcast held on 20 August 2026 and open to clients and the wider market. The company also advertises model context protocol and API access to Spektra, positioning the platform as an interface that other software can query rather than only a browser tool. The homepage content was last modified in late September 2026.
Office network
The contact page splits the company's locations into 8 in EMEA, 5 in the Americas and 13 in Asia-Pacific, and most are published with a street address, a local telephone number and their own mailbox.
- Oslo, EMEA headquarters - Akersgata 51, 0180 Oslo, the address also used for general enquiries.
- Other EMEA offices - Stavanger at Lokkeveien 109, Aberdeen at 9 Queens Gardens, London at 77 Coleman Street, Paris at 4 Rue Royale, Madrid at Torre Europa First on Paseo de la Castellana 95, Copenhagen at Bredgade 6, and Dubai at One Central in the Dubai World Trade Centre.
- Americas desks include Houston, New York, Calgary and Rio de Janeiro, and the Asia-Pacific network includes Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Bangalore, Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, Brisbane and Sydney, among others.
Regional mailboxes such as aberdeen@, london@, dubai@, houston@ and singapore@ route enquiries to a local team, which matters for a business whose clients buy analyst time as well as data.
Clients, ownership and contact
Rystad Energy works for oil and gas companies, oilfield service providers and financial investors, and its client base has included institutions such as OPEC, the International Energy Agency and the World Bank. Subscribers reach the databases through a client login portal, and the company offers a separate Cube browser download for field-level data. The education arm sells courses, the marketing team publishes a monthly newsletter, and media enquiries are handled by named communications managers in Oslo, Singapore and Houston with the general enquiries address, a client support desk and a careers address listed alongside them. The company also maintains a corporate governance section on the site.